Changing titles to foreign language

[cfogarty]

Sometimes the only version of a classical work is a sony japanese release. The Ripper does a good job at giving me identical but alternate releases. However songkong properly identifies the Japanese release and wants to change the track names back to Japanese.

Is there a way to force an overide at just a language level?

I did solve this by saying not to modify the title field if it is already populated. But I was wondering if there is a way to say force it to pick english releases when matching to an album. I have several hundred Japanese Classical albums.

[paultaylor]

You cannot force a match at language level. But if on the match tab you add english speaking countries to the Preferred Releases Countries field such as UK and US then releases from those countries are going to get a boost and more likely to be selected.

You can also use Match to One Album to force a match to a particular release, and even specify the release to match to on MusicBrain or Discogs using the Enter MusicBrainz Url or Discogs Url if you want to limit match to a particular release option

However, you say

Sometimes the only version of a classical work is a sony japanese release

So is the release you want matching to even available on MusicBrainz or Discogs?