Greetings, fellow mappers and modders!
Many of you have encountered different problems with metadata. The main point of this thread is to give you a basic idea of how and where to obtain correct metadata. The list below contains all the possible sources for metadata according to their priority with all the necessary notes added.
Feel free to post any notes/comments or suggest corrections!
Many of you have encountered different problems with metadata. The main point of this thread is to give you a basic idea of how and where to obtain correct metadata. The list below contains all the possible sources for metadata according to their priority with all the necessary notes added.
Artist/ Title sources
- 1. Official website/bandcamp/soundcloud/YouTube channel of the artist
- 2. Official CD covers. (Mind the stylization)
- 3. Official website of the label/source with a proper credit to the artist
Please, do not use ANY of these sources unless you are desperate and unable to get anything more reliable. - 4. Music stores (such as iTunes and Amazon)
- 5. Unofficial/fan-made websites
- 6. Wikipedia/unofficial YouTube channels/Music databasses (like VGMDB or Discogs)
Source
- 1. Try to use official English source provided, if there's any. Source should be mentioned if the song was produced for a certain anime/game/movie/TV-Show or anything of that kind.
Note: Do NOT list YouTube channels, music shops or downloading/streaming website (such as Newgrounds). - 2. In cases when there is no official English title use the source in the original language (for example: Japanese, if we are talking about an anime title). In this case, add possible unofficially translated alternatives to the tags.
Tags
- Please, list anything related to the song and it's genre. Alternative names of the artist, sub-genre and instruments which are mainly used in the music. Anything that might help people to find the song is fine!
- Be sure to remove all the possible duplicate words and words which are already listed in the Artist/Title/Source.
Note: do not use tags related to the background, unless they are closely connected with the song.
Important
- Vocaloids can be featured within the artist section if the producer/composer includes it via official sources.
Note: basically metadta like "Hatsune Miku - Songname" is considered incorrect. Although "Artist feat. Hatsune Miku - Songname" is fine as long as it's official. - Eastern artists must be written in the proper 'surname firstname' format (e.g. Japanese/Chinese/Korean). For artists which have a preferred romanisation, use this one.
- Do not take existing metadata from Ranked/Qualified/WIP/Pending/Graveyarded beatmaps without proper checking, first.
- In any unclear cases contact a QAT/Beatmap Nominator who is capable of handling this kind of issues.
Feel free to post any notes/comments or suggest corrections!