formalise a capitalisation standard, or at least ignore capitalisation for statistics
It's getting very tedious seeing people edit setlists backwards and forwards for capitalisation changes, mostly between MusicBrainz style ("This Is the Best") to capitalising all words ("This Is The Best").
I would vote for the MusicBrainz style as this would presumably help with other integration (Last.fm has cited MusicBrainz as their preferred source for years), but any formal standard would be better than the current setup.
see “Songnames” section in http://www.setlist.fm/guidelines
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Adminmsparer (Admin, setlist.fm) commented
I'm also in favour for the musicbrainz style whenever there's a doubt. For the existing songs it'll be best to take the existing ones first as this way the stats won't get messed up.
And leglessmoof, here's in brief how the autocorrection works:
Due to some recent bugreports, we performed some major changes on the autocorrection feature. What it now basically does is:
1) get all songs that are similar to the input from the setlist.fm (local) database (e.g. "Teh Great Bayond" should also get "The Great Beyond"
2) look if there's an exact match in that result set (including case)
3a) if there is an exact match, take that one
3b) if there isn't an exact match but other possible matches, the musicbrainz database gets asked for an exact match
--> I ) if there is an exact musicbrainz match, take that one
--> II) if there isn't an exact musicbrainz match, take the best matching local one
3c) if there isn't an exact match and no possible other matches, get possible matches from the musicbrainz database
--> I ) if there are possible musicbrainz matches, take the best matching one
--> II) if there aren't any possible local or musicbrainz matches, create a new song -
leglessmoof commented
I definitely agree that a formal standard is needed. I don't really care which standard is chosen, but the MusicBrainz style seems like the most logical choice.
I know I've edited many setlists back and forth for capitalization changes. The main reason I've done it is because the autocorrection feature doesn't always fix capitalization errors. Sometimes it does, but a lot of times it doesn't. I've been trying to find patterns for the songs that aren't autocorrected, to determine what might be causing it. But so far I haven't been able to find anything.
One possible solution to this issue might be to modify the autocorrection feature so that it always changes capitalization to match what's in the setlist.fm database (even if it's different from the MusicBrainz database).
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Adminsfussenegger (Admin, setlist.fm) commented
You're right, the guidelines need some improvement there. I'd also go for the MusicBrainz style. What do others think?