| Registered: December 10, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 3,004 |
| | Posted: | | | | Shoudl the audio for Music DVDs be listed as Music only or whatever language the movie is in? There seems to be no agreement on this. |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | On your question I checked my music-DVD's, as language there usually comes up "english" except for a definetly german band, even though half of their songs is sung in english.
Generally I'd think that your first option is the better one, couldn't find any "music" entry though. | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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  | Corne | | Registered: Nov. 1, 2000 |
| Registered: April 5, 2007 |  Posts: 1,059 |
| | Posted: | | | | It also depends on what kind of Music-DVD you're referring to. Most concerts also contain some dialogue of the artists. That's why I consider an audio track of a concert DVD not as Music Only, but I use the language spoken and/or sung by the artists instead.
A Music Only track is especially used for movie-DVDs with an optional music only (orchestra) audio track without dialogue as an extra feature on the DVD.
I think Music-DVDs of an orchestra without any vocals; dialogue etc. could be submitted with a Music Only audio track, for example. | | | | Cor |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 742 |
| | Posted: | | | | This was discussed back at the IVS board back when. Before that discussion there were actually a lot of DVDs listing the audio content as "Music only", which I'd still prefer, but IIRC it was decided that the language of the performance should be used, but it was not determiined if the song lyrics or the intermittant announcements or something else determine the performance language. It seems, however, that the song lyrics as the determining factor are most commonly used.
IMO there are three different possible approaches to this:
you could rely on the lyrics language, i. e. the language the songs are written in
or (in case of live concerts)
you could rely on the language the announcements are made in (which could result in different languages for the same band, depending on the location the concert was filmed, as many non-native-English-speaking bands tend to address international audiences in english and their homeland crowds in their native language)
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you could determine the language track by the CoO of the band performing, relying on their native tongue, regardless of the langugae actually used. | | | | Lutz |
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