[Secret Squirrel]

I've made a few adjustments to the instructions for title. I think we made good progress on this one, even if we didn't come to any consensus for a rigid set of guidelines defining each line. We attain some flexibility, and can always tighten the rules if it becomes necessary.

Album Titles

There is support for multiple titles, separated by carriage returns (Enter key). Only the first line is absolutely required.

line 1: Display Name

• This is the name that will appear as the title when the album is displayed.
• Generally, the name for an album comes from the title on the Front or the Spine.
• If the game has an official english name, you may use it instead of the romanized Japanese name (Art of Fighting instead of Ryouko no Ken).
• If a game does not have an official English language release, don't submit a literal translation of the game's name. It is fine to translate other parts of the album title (e.g. Ongakushu -> Music Collection).
• Never abbreviate to OST (unless the title really does include it, but this is rare).
• All monospace characters should be mapped to the Latin charset equivalent, thus ～ＪＡＳＣＩＩ should be ~JASCII. Decorative symbols like ☆ are still permitted.
  

line 2: Original

• Use this when the official name differs from the display name.
• For Eastern releases, this will often require Unicode characters.

line 3: Romanized

• Direct romanization of the original title. Note, don't include this if it's essentially the same as the Display title.
• In particular, please do not literally transcribe loan words (i.e., no Orijinaru Saundotorakku)

line 4+: Alternatives

• Any alternate titles can be added here. For albums whose titles and franchise names are typically rendered in English, Japanese titles may be included here to aid in searches.

Unless the front or obi indicates otherwise, a main title and a sub title should be separated by a colon (, and two titles of equal standing should be separated by a slash (/). A slash (/) may also be used at the submitter's discretion to include the artist's name on an artist album, as Title / Artist.