Please use the following conventions when submitting entries to this database:
1. Please use the "Artist / Disc Title" format for the disc title. Note that artist name or group name comes first, and is separated from the disc title with a slash character. Please do not use other characters for this purpose. Also, put a space before and after the slash.
Never use more than one slash in the disc title. For example, if you have a disc with "Jorge Bolet" performing "Franz Liszt" called "Liszt - The Piano Works Disc 1", do not enter it like:
"Franz Liszt / Jorge Bolet / Liszt The Piano Works Disc 1"
Since there should only be a slash between the artist and the disc title, do it something like this:
"Franz Liszt - Jorge Bolet / Liszt – The Piano Works Disc 1"
Alternately, you could just remove the composer altogether, because it's redundant:
"Jorge Bolet / Liszt - The Piano Works Disc 1"
If the artist is more than one word, do not separate the words with a comma. For example, if the artist is "Louis Armstrong", do not enter it as "Armstrong, Louis". If the artist name and disc title are the same, or if there is no artist name or disc title, then you should only enter the one unique title with no separating slash. For example, the album "Led Zeppelin" by "Led Zeppelin" should simply appear as "Led Zeppelin", not "Led Zeppelin / Led Zeppelin" or "Led Zeppelin /".
If there are more than one artist appearing on a CD, such as on compilations, the individual artists' names should appear in the "Artist / Song Title" format in each track title. For example, If the song "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II" by "Pink Floyd" is on track 1 of a disc, and "Stairway to Heaven" by "Led Zeppelin" is on track two, then the data for track 1 should look like this:
Pink Floyd / Another Brick in the Wall, Part II
and the data for track 2 should look like this:
Led Zeppelin / Stairway to Heaven
If you want to add more information than the artist name for a particular track, you should use the "extended data" fields for this. Such information might include the artist, composer, recording date, movement name (in the case of classical) et cetera.
2. Capitalize the first letter of each word only. Do not use upper case for whole words unless it's absolutely necessary.
3. Please verify that all spelling is correct before submitting an entry.
4. Submit to the appropriate category. Currently the following categories are recognized by the CDDB server: blues, classical, country, data (ISO9660 and other data CDs), folk, jazz, newage, reggae, rock (incl. funk, soul, rap, pop, industrial metal, etc.), soundtrack (movies, shows) and misc (i.e. others that do not fit the above categories).
5. Do not send entries that are not completely filled-out (i.e., empty track titles, etc.).
6. Send an entry only after you verify that it isn't already in the database. The server will discard duplicate entries.
7. For compilation discs, specify "Various Artists" as the artist.
8. For tracks with no name, specify "(Unknown)" as the track name. If a track has no name and contains no audio, specify "(Blank)" as the track name.