I’m a tiny bit skeptical, because it may have far reaching consequences for many well established series, e.g. Fabric (+ Fabriclive, fabric presents), DJ-Kicks etc.
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To me it is obvious that LateNightTales is the name of the series.
Not the name of an album.
Each and every album in that series has a discriminating full album title including the artist name.
(or something like: LateNightTales: The Cover Versions)
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This is what D. from latenighttales.co.uk told me, as I’ve asked him about what the correct album title is:
"I guess its all subjective … but defiantly the artist name is “Lindstrom” but I guess the album title could be “LateNightTales: Lindstrom” or just “LateNightTales” … whatever fits with your previous tilting of LNT releases :)”
So it’s up to us?!
What is the final decision here?
F.
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I’d say “not to break the internet” by starting an avalanche of changes.
Like I posted above, there are more long running dj-mix series that have been titled throughout the years in a similar fashion, that is: “Name of the series: Name of the mixer/compiler/artist”
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I can live with this… as long as it won’t change (like I wanted it to 
hahahah!) 
BTW: how do I quote a message I’m replying to?
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… and another thing: how do you replace the “:” in the folder name (I presume that no filesystem is accepting the colon as part of the name)?
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Select the fragment you wish to quote and a pop-up will appear 
Like this:
Personally I use _ for all the illegal characters, but that’s just what I’m used to, probably because foobar was using it when renaming files/folders.
There is another convention, to use the Unicode replacement characters, that is the fullwidth counterparts, e.g.:
PS
I’m not necessarily against changing the way we title the mix/compilation series like LateNightTales, I just wanted to advise caution when making a change that will probably turn into a style standard for cases like these
Thank you 
That’s also what I’m used to, as iTunes is using the same (I’ve completely abandoned iTunes, that’s why I’m now re-ripping my complete 500 CD collection into FLAC to be fed/used by Plex).
I hear you, loud and clear! I can live with either solution, but I do like standards and standardization and adherence to those.
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You could also keep all the files you already ripped with iTunes. I guess their format would be handled by Plex or any other player.
Yes, I know. But that format is ALAC - and I feel more “open” if I use FLAC rather than ALAC
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This is a series and the artist should be in the title, IMHO. I have 13 releases in this series, and there is another, called AnotherLateNight, I have 7 of those. There might be more of them.
I guess the artist is in the title because the content features tracks selected by them… I think those are kind of DJ remixes.
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Yeah, there is also LateNightTales presents: …
Those are all great and interesting series.
(I recall them being called ‘The Rolls Royce of compilation albums’ somewhere)
As an added complication, some albums have two versions.
One version that has all tracks (mixes) separately isolated and numbered, and a version with all the tracks faded into each-other as one continuous hour-long track.
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Agreed - you convinced me
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I agree. I didn’t realize that it was the name of a series as well. If that’s the case than I see no issue with having it in the title like it is on sites.
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FYI you can convert ALAC to FLAC without any loss in quality.
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No need to re-rip?
How would I do it on Mac OS?
To be clear, I would prefer the artist be in the title. I think it just makes everything much clearer on both the database and user level.
Whatever the consensus is, it is also clear that we need a space to record these case by case naming conventions. Related to this topic I raised here: Do we need a "Talk" or "Editor Notes" tab?