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Translations in Discogs

In some countries (especially in Spain) it was/is custom to translate titles of songs and print them on the sleeve (sometimes without the original title). The cool thing about this is that these releases have unique sleeves and labels. One example is Queen's "Hot Space", which was translated to " Espacio Caliente ". Frequently songs are also covered in a different language than the original and given a new title. From a collector point of view this could be interesting: there are actually people who collect covers of specific songs. The challenge is that if only the translated title is printed on the release (or entered in Discogs) it is harder to find out which track it actually is. For regular releases (where the title simply has been translated) it is usually not that difficult. But, for cover versions it can be. How to indicate translations has been the matter of debate inside Discogs. At some point the solution was to enter both the original title and...