The only issue I have with MusicBrainz is that they generally use correct grammar/spelling/style over what the artist uses themself. For example, "accapella" -> "a cappella" or "Remix" -> "remix".
If you ask yourself in what style something should be entered into MusicBrainz, the following principles apply:
Follow Artist intent.
If no definite proof can be found for the correct spelling/punctuation, the most common version should be used.
Follow the style guidelines.
"remix" would be an example of extra title information as outlined here https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Titles. "Titles and subtitles of mixes/versions are formatted according to the appropriate language's guidelines; the other parts of this extra information should be in lower case except for words that would normally be capitalized in the language."
"acapella" would technically be considered a spelling error, which is something that we correct.
The artist "intent" is often misguided. CD-Text usually is assumed to be CP1252 99% of the time where I frequently see punctuation misused for "style" purposes. My biggest peeve is right single quote being used as a fancy apostrophe when that is an inappropriate substitution.
Are you claiming that ’ (Unicode code point 002019) is not suitable as an apostrophe? In that case, what is? The classic ASCII 000027? Isn’t that one straight? (As opposed to ’, which is slanted correctly.)
Or are you perhaps thinking of ´ (Unicode code point 0000B4, ACUTE ACCENT)? Yes, that one is ugly and should not be used as either an apostrophe or a right quote.
Interestingly, this is not the case with Japanese artists.[1]
I've viewed/edited/added many Japanese entries on MB, and the names and spellings for them are usually always spelled exactly as they appear on the official release.
I noticed that with the artist names. However, I think that comes partially from the albums themselves if the info is in the inserts. It is one thing I wish picard would do better with artists and aliases. Then give you an option/plugin to pick the one you like. Maybe it does. Havent, touched it in a few years.
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