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Old Mar 29, 2024, 11:38 AM
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use proper romanization.
Also, not sure of provenance of japanese titles, but they ought to be something like the english one.
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Hi Secret Squirrel,

Apologies for the improper romanization. I thought I replaced the machine translated title (I only used machine translation to know what each thing said, to have the brackets around the right words for the Romaji, derived from the track file names which do contain proper romanization) with the proper romanization present in the file list itself (filename for track 9).

However, I'd disagree on the Japanese "title". The metadata of the album only mentions the Japanese title of the game without any subtitle indicating it is a soundtrack, neither is it nowhere visible on the cover art itself. The only instance of it being called "ART OF FIGHTING 2 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK" is in the Humble Bundle download's track-filled folder. This does not constitute the original Japanese title, which is present (along with the Japanese artists and track list) within the metadata of the MP3 files. (The FLAC versions miss most of the metadata except for the album title, if I'm not mistaken.)

See screenshot below for the reason why I included the "lack of soundtrack subtitle".

https://imgur.com/a/KORnx7l

Apologies for not posting any screenshot before hand about the source of said Japanese title.
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Old Mar 29, 2024, 01:28 PM
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Thanks for posting the screenshot. I've brought the japanese titles back to match the tags. I'm still not so sure that the contents of that field are meant to be the album title. It looks more like they just quickly pasted the game name in. But, I guess it is best to err on the side that doesn't require any additional interpretations.
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Thanks for posting the screenshot. I've brought the japanese titles back to match the tags. I'm still not so sure that the contents of that field are meant to be the album title. It looks more like they just quickly pasted the game name in. But, I guess it is best to err on the side that doesn't require any additional interpretations.
I do agree that SNK most likely didn't name it after the game as a proper title, similar to how the metadata's year refers to the game's release year rather than the album's release year.

Hence why I stuck with the metadata album title. Within the Humble Bundle releases, only METAL SLUG 3's OST was one with the most effort put into (HQ album art, no Japanese romaji in the file names etc.), with it keeping the Metal Slug 3 Original Soundtrack title in the album metadata.
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