Isn't this technically what aliases are supposed to be for? In truth, I
don't use them as it's such a pain in the ass to edit work and recording
titles in just one language...

I think what we need more urgently is the ability to concatenate work
titles with sub-works or movements.

Sébastien
On Oct 30, 2014 12:07 PM, "Frederic Da Vitoria" <davito...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2014-10-30 16:45 GMT+01:00 David Gasaway <d...@gasaway.org>:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 1:25 AM, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren
>> <reosare...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > That's solved easily enough by, well, adding an alias :) It might be a
>> bit
>> > more work short-term maybe, but it should eventually need less effort
>> anyway
>> > since they'll already be there for any other releases of the same work.
>>
>> It's more than a bit more work, especially if we're talking about a
>> opera, oratorio, or something else similarly massive. :)
>>
>> Anyway, let me cut to the chase.  I'm not asking for a return of
>> pre-NGS track titles or fancy features in Picard.  I've long since
>> accepted that I'm going to have to make my own titles for classical.
>> Still, I would like to see a minimal amount of editing (punctuation
>> and numbering, primarily) for the sake of consistency.  This also
>> makes it a lot easier to write scripts to massage the data into
>> something closer to the end product.
>
>
> Doesn't this mean that we should start thinking about support for
> translating work and recording titles? I guess this would be a major
> change, and it would need a long time to implement it, but I believe will
> have to get there eventually, so why not start thinking about how it should
> be set up now?
>
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