When do the OC ReMix guidelines apply?

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Style / Titles / OC ReMix series - MusicBrainz starts with (emphasis mine):

This page describes the style to be used for OverClocked ReMix (OC ReMix) tracks.

I opened some random releases credited to the OverClocked ReMix artist and found a bunch that don’t seem to adhere to the title guidelines at all:

Among the ones I opened, I don’t think I found any with track titles matching the guidelines as I interpret them. Most of the titles look like Rolling Start! (Daytona USA), while I think that Daytona USA ‘Rolling Start!’ OC ReMix is what the guidelines call for.

(The guidelines don’t say how to handle cases where there’s both a remix title and an original title, as in Vampire Snap (Castlevania - Vampire Killer). Should that be Castlevania ‘Vampire Snap (Vampire Killer)’ OC ReMix?)

I found some recording titles following the guidelines, like Doom II: Hell on Earth ‘Running From Evil Horde’ OC ReMix, but even within the same release, other recordings don’t follow the guidelines, like Crushing Headache (MAP06: In the Dark).

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Pinging dr @CyberSkull

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to my understanding, this applies to recordings but not tracks? at least that’s how I’ve always read that… also might make sense because recordings used to be called tracks

note, I don’t often deal with OCR artists and recordings

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I thought that might be the case too, but I don’t really understand the point of making recording titles different from track titles for recordings that are often only included in a single release. If the intent is just to document the original works that are being rearranged (I don’t think these are typically remixes in the MB sense) or that these are part of the OC ReMix series, there are already relationships for that.

Perhaps the original intent was for this guideline to apply to standalone recordings.

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It applies to the standalone recordings released on the website so that people tagging those files don’t get the name lost.

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@CyberSkull, thanks for the clarification!

@reosarevok, should the OC ReMix guidelines be updated to make it clearer that they apply to standalone recordings rather than releases?

Side can of worms question: Would it make more sense to just enter standalone songs from ocremix.org as releases with an RG type of “single”, rather than as standalone recordings? That’s probably what I’d do for something like ReMix: Super Mario Bros. "Life Is Peachy" - OC ReMix.

I don’t think I’ve used standalone recordings for much besides pre-Web digital media where I wasn’t able to track down much info about when/how it was originally released, and even there, I feel like I probably ought to go back and create proper releases…

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I think the general practice has been moving away from standalone recordings for digital releases such as these, so perhaps it could be time to re-evaluate the OC ReMix guidelines too? I don’t do much editing in the area (besides linking VGM works), so I don’t know that I have much say in this tho

I also don’t really use standalone recordings except for a few rare circumstances

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Keep in mind that this is the format they are releasing tracks in. And there is an actual album on the tracks’ metadata.

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ah, didn’t see this one was from an album (didn’t even know they did albums, actually)

either way, I think my point still stands for single releases