[x] Play

MattW correctly points out that we are not consistent when an album is titled 'John Doe plays...'. Some times we have:
Band: John Doe
Title: Plays...
[bandtoband.com] http://bandtoband.com/index.php?Page=Search&AlbumId=12565
[bandtoband.com] http://bandtoband.com/index.php?Page=Search&AlbumId=16641
[bandtoband.com] http://bandtoband.com/index.php?Page=Search&AlbumId=12312

Other times we have:
Band: John Doe
Title: John Doe Plays...
[bandtoband.com] http://bandtoband.com/index.php?Page=Search&AlbumId=17101
[bandtoband.com] http://bandtoband.com/index.php?Page=Search&AlbumId=14049
[bandtoband.com] http://bandtoband.com/index.php?Page=Search&AlbumId=25562

We may even have (but obviously harder to search for) some where we have dropped the 'Play' altogether.

Views?

I'm easy as long as we're consistent.

If pressed on the subject, I'd prefer "John Doe Plays ..." as long as it's fairly obvious whether the player's name is in the title or not.

Mind, it's not only "plays" that causes the question. It can be ambiguous, in which case it may be safer to have as a blanket rule that the name is *not* in the title, then you can't go wrong.

Having said that, it would utterly confuse the issue to have "Cookin' With" by "The Miles Davis Quintet" or whatever it is.

I'm with you on your preference.

Let's do it then.

Did we do it? Those first three don't look changed.

I was waiting for someone else to respond enthusiastically but nobody ever did.

Yay! Let's do it!!!!

Yes, let's be consistent.

I just changed a bunch of these. Some of the other candidates in the database are tough calls, so please post about them in the Shambles forum if you find them.

In a way, we ruled on this issue long ago.

[www.bandtoband.com] http://www.bandtoband.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=822 :

"I'd say for a general rule of thumb, if the album title graphically includes the band name and also does not make grammatical sense without the band name in it, then include it."

See also [www.bandtoband.com] http://www.bandtoband.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1287