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Iraqi Artists Paintings. Vegetarian Artist. London Artistic Gymnastics Romanian Team. If a track is a performance track, backing track, or split track, that information must be included in the title. Booklet Title. Digital Booklet title should follow the format: Digital Booklet - Album title. Non-standard Capitalization. Titles should not be in all capitals, all lowercase, or random casing. English Title Casing. English titles should be in title case format and follow the casing conventions as outlined below.
This section applies to titles in English only. For general cases not addressed in this guide, refer to The Chicago Manual of Style. Prepositions of four letters or fewer at, by, for, from, in, into, of, off, on, onto, out, over, to, up, and with , except when the word is part of a verb phrase or is used as another part of speech such as an adverb, adjective, noun, or verb.
Always capitalize the first and last word in a title. Capitalize the first and last word in parentheses. Accents and Characters. Supported languages must include all accents. Do not use digraphs. Not every genre has a genre page in iTunes and the list may change at any time.
Genre names are automatically translated for each Apple Music or iTunes territory. The first genre listed will be the primary genre and must be the best description for the content. A second genre is not required, but it should be used when applicable.
Note : Content will only chart in the first primary genre. Albums with Latin genres or the K-Pop genre will chart in both the primary and secondary genres. Genre Specificity. Use the most specific primary genre that applies to your music, such as Pop in Spanish y Tropical, instead of more generic genres such as Latin or Pop. Karaoke content must use Karaoke as the primary genre. This includes backing tracks, performance tracks, or any other type of content that could be identified as Karaoke.
Indian Genres. Indian music must have at least one Indian genre or Indian subgenre for the album Primary or Secondary, as applicable. The language-specific genre must be Primary for Indian soundtrack albums. Apart from Hindi, all other Indian Regional languages have their respective genres that you must list as the Primary genre:.
Any regional language not found in the aforementioned list can be classified as Primary Genre Regional Indian. Some languages have respective primary genres that must be credited for their respective content. If a secondary genre is required, it is included in the examples below:. Classical Genres. Use Classical genre for all albums that feature Western classical music. This broadly includes music composed between approx A.
For classical albums, use Classical for the primary genre and include additional classical subgenres as secondary genres to provide specificity. Compilations featuring both nonclassical songs as well as standard classical works which are marketed toward a nonclassical audience. Classical and Classical crossover genres must not be used for albums that fall outside of the Western art music tradition, including new age, soundtracks, folk, meditation, and so on.
Albums, tracks, and music videos must be delivered with the release date of their original issue, digitally or physically, regardless of version or country or region of origin.
For all albums released after the year , deliver at the level of day, month, and year. For deep catalog albums released before the year , deliver this metadata to the extent it is known whether it be to the day, month, or year. Explicit Content Flagging. Explicit content must be flagged Explicit with a parental advisory tag.
Clean Version Flagging. Clean versions of audio content with an available explicit version must be flagged Clean to prevent customers from accidentally purchasing the clean version. Only flag tracks as Clean if there is a corresponding explicit version of the track. Censoring Words. Album and track titles must be submitted in the original form that was intended by the artist.
Do not insert the asterisks yourself. The art must not be misleading for example, prominently depicting or referencing an artist even though the artist does not perform on the album. Images must not be blurry, pixelated, mismatched, misaligned, rotated, or have other quality issues.
Art must not contain website addresses, logos, or any other reference to competitors of Apple Music and iTunes. Art must not include references to the physical packaging for example, CD or vinyl , digital product, or any retailers. Art must not contain pornography or a URL for a website that contains or links to pornography. Music videos with poor quality such as glitches, blurriness, incomplete video or audio, no audio, out-of-sync audio and video, and so on will not be accepted.
Graphic Overlays and Subtitles. Music videos must not contain chyrons, static or scrolling lyrics, lower-third graphics, subtitles, or lyrics displayed as subtitles.
Release Dates or Advertisements. Music videos must not contain release dates, logos, or advertisements. Promotional Still Image Videos. Promotional videos such as videos displaying only the cover art and audio or slide shows will not be accepted. Non-Standard Music Videos. Music videos that are artist interviews, commentaries, behind the scenes, or similar in content must be bundled with a music album and cannot be delivered individually.
Teasers, Trailers, and Partial Videos. Music videos which have been shortened or edited into a promotional teaser, trailer, or partial version will not be accepted. Medleys are not accepted. Music videos, including live videos, must contain only one song.
Cover Art. Music videos must use a screen capture image from the video for cover art. Other images, such as album cover art, will not be accepted. Inactive Pixels in Cover Art. Only the active pixel area may be included in music video cover art. Music video cover art must not contain inactive pixels, black bars, or letterboxing on the outer portions of the video frames.
Inactive pixels on the cover art will not be accepted and must be cropped out. Spanish and Portuguese Casing. For Spanish and Portuguese titles, you can decide on either title or sentence casing, as long as the casing is consistent throughout a given album. Capitalize the first word in parentheses or brackets. Words after a : should be lowercase, except for series and medleys. The following Spanish words should always be in lowercase if title casing is used, these are also the only words that should be lowercase :.
The following Portuguese words should always be in lowercase if title casing is used, these are also the only words that should be lowercase :. Titles should follow the casing conventions of the language it is in.
Common language locales that should be in sentence-case format are Swedish, French, Italian, and Scandinavian languages. Note : A space before and after punctuation marks made up of two parts is required for French content.
German Casing. German titles should use sentence case, and the first letter of every noun should be capitalized:. Cyrillic Languages. Content in languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet should not be submitted with transliterated titles.
Use Cyrillic in the native title field, English in the English localization field, and transliteration in the available phonetic field. Localizations and transliterations are not required. Cyrillic Casing. Titles in Cyrillic alphabet should be submitted in sentence case format. Music Directors. All music directors must be listed. For soundtrack albums, music directors must be credited with both the Composer and Primary role at the album level.
At the track level, music directors must be listed with the Composer role. For Indian Classical albums, music directors must be listed with the Composer role on tracks. If the album contains selections of unknown authorship, such as folk songs, chants, or devotionals, use Anonymous or Traditional as the composer. Actors must be listed in the Actor role and must not be credited as Primary on soundtrack albums.
For more information, see Naming Conventions and Rules. Classical Artist Roles. For classical albums, the main performers must be listed as Primary at the album and track level. Artist listings include all relevant artists and contributors to a given song or album. For Jugalbandi albums, all the artists must be listed as Primary at the album and track level. Composers must be in the Composer role only. Formatting of Classical Track Titles. Track titles for Indian classical music must include the lyrics, raga, tala, and Indian classical genre information Thumri, Khayal, Tarana, and so on.
Variations or abbreviations of Raga and Taal such as, raaga, raag, rag, tal, and so on not be used in the album or track title. Generic titles like Bhajan, Dhun, Ragam, or Tanam are not acceptable. Chinese Artist Localizations. Chinese content must always have the Traditional and Simplified Chinese name of the artist listed: one in the native field, and the other one in the localization field. Chinese Localizations.
Chinese language content must be submitted with both Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese metadata, with one language being used in the primary language field and the other in the localization field. Japanese language content should be submitted with both Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese metadata when available. Providing phonetics enhances the discoverability of your content. Use phonetics in the phonetic fields.
Use Katakana or Hiragana for Japanese, and Roman characters for the other languages. Symbols stars, hearts, and so on must not be used in any phonetic fields. Here are a few examples:.
For the best possible listener experience, lyrics music be accurate and match the audio. This includes everything that is an integral part of the vocals. Apple may change the formatting of provided lyrics for stylistic reasons. When transcribing lyrics, it is important to separate the lyrical sections and changes within a song with line and section breaks.
All lyric lines must be single-spaced and a double space separate each stanza. Capitalization in your lyrics should follow traditional grammar rules. Proper nouns should be capitalized. Additionally, all lyric lines should begin with a capital letter. Do not end any lyric line with a period or comma.
Exclamation points, question marks, and quotation marks are the only acceptable end-line punctuations and should be included as needed. Parentheses background vocals must be wrapped in parentheses at the end of a line, with the first letter capitalized. Non-word vocals should be transcribed sparingly and only if they add to the content of the song, either narratively or stylistically.
Do not include computer-generated sound effects in lyrics door slamming, car horn, phone ringing, etc. In clean lyrics, dropped and edited content must be represented with asterisks. Time-sync must be applied to the exact audio version you are providing to Apple Music. Different versions of the same songs will have different time-sync. The table below lists all accepted abbreviations for classical music on Apple Music and the iTunes Store.
This may follow the catalog abbreviation to designate a work which does not appear in that particular catalog ex.
Regional and language differences may affect the way that musical terms are notated. Apple Music and the iTunes Store uses English as the standard language. When submitting metadata, refer to the following table for the list of acceptable keys.
For composers who already have content available on Apple Music and the iTunes Store, use the existing spelling found there. The following table lists a few well-known composers. The following table lists a few well-known orchestras and conductors. Primary Artists at the Album Level. The main artists highlighted for Western classical music must be marked as Primary at the album level.
For example, for a recording of:. Beethoven symphonies performed by a single orchestra and conductor, mark both the orchestra and conductor as Primary. Beethoven symphonies performed by several orchestras but with the same conductor, mark only the conductor as Primary. Beethoven symphonies performed by several orchestras and several conductors, mark Various Artists as Primary. Concertos performed by the same orchestra and conductor but featuring several soloists, mark the orchestra and the conductor as Primary.
A complete opera, mark the principal vocal soloists, the orchestra, and the conductor all as Primary. For example, for the opera Falstaff mark the principal baritone soloist, the orchestra, and the conductor as Primary. For the opera Tosca, mark the principal soprano, tenor, and baritone soloists, along with the orchestra and the conductor as Primary. Primary Artists at The Track Level. All artists performing on a track must be marked as Primary. Do not enter Various Artists as an artist name at the track level.
For example, if a track features:. An orchestra but a prominent solo appears during the track, mark the orchestra, the soloists, and the conductor all as Primary.
Ensure that what you've typed is common to everything on your album such that you can see all of its tracks in the resulting list. Select all of the tracks on the problematic album, using command-click Mac or control-click Windows to add individual tracks to the selection when they're not all contiguous. You do want to edit multiple items, so click "Edit Items" if it asks.
In the resulting window, look for greyed-out "Mixed" values in Artist, Album, Album Artist fields, or a "dashed" compilation checkbox. While typing, iTunes will suggest likely values though it can be annoying if it suggests something that you don't want.
Finally, Click OK and that problem should be gone! Unsurprisingly, there exists software that was design to find and fix problems like this. It's free to scan your library for problems, and you might be surprised how many inconsistencies and other issues that it finds. I'm showing the Mac version here but there's also a version for Windows.
After it finishes scanning your library, you can peruse the list of inconsistently named artists and albums.
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