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Rainer1
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 3:31 pm 
 

Ok I have two questions submitting releases done with versions in multiple languages. First for the release do I put Title 1/Title 2 if both versions where major releases? Two how are track lists supposed to be handled if there is no clear main one. Thank you Rainer1.

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Evenfiel
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 8:50 pm 
 

Just add them like this:
http://www.metal-archives.com/release.php?id=34613

If both releases are released at almost the same time, keep the main tracklist for the language which the band uses the most.

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Nightgaunt
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 8:58 pm 
 

I don't believe the site actually has any explicit rule on how to handle this, but applying a few of the basic principles in effect here would seem to dictate a fairly straightforward course of action.

Where there are multiple versions of one album with the only difference between them being the language used for the lyrics/vocals, the one that should be put on the site is the original or primary edition--so, the title and tracklist should be given in whatever language said version used. Information on the other edition(s) should be given in the additional album notes. For an example, see Here.

Now, if (unlike the case above) there is no way to make any distinction of which version is the primary/original version, you'll simply have to use your best judgment on which version to use as the base. Whichever one you choose, however, the formatting/submission convention would remain the same.
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Evenfiel
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:01 pm 
 

The example I provided was only for official albums. Translations by the users should go to the additional notes.

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MushroomStamp
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Joined: Sat Feb 25, 2006 11:07 pm
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 12:24 am 
 

Nightgaunt wrote:
Where there are multiple versions of one album with the only difference between them being the language used for the lyrics/vocals, the one that should be put on the site is the original or primary edition--so, the title and tracklist should be given in whatever language said version used. Information on the other edition(s) should be given in the additional album notes. For an example, see Here.


Sorry for the random off-topic, but I've been meaning to bring this up on several occasions and always forgotten:

I think the Mirovozzrenie version of Weltanschauung warrants its own release on the Archives, because the lyrics and vocals are not the only thing that changed. They also changed (re-recorded) the folk interludes that we hear between the metal tracks. If I were, hypothetically, to ever review that album, the score would be higher for the English version, because a couple of those folk ditties sound rather bad on the Ukrainian release.
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Evenfiel
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 9:45 pm 
 

You can add a new entry for that album.

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MushroomStamp
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 5:42 am 
 

Evenfiel wrote:
You can add a new entry for that album.


Done. The slavic characters look all right, EXCEPT for the main title, which got somehow cut off and is now "Мировоззрен" while it should be "Мировоззрение (Mirovozzrenie)". I don't have the privileges to edit that, so could someone correct that?

edit: Also, my Mirovozzrenie booklet says "2004", in case you're wondering why the pair of albums seems to be released over an oddly stretched period of time.
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