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Should the audiotrack be Music Only, or The language the songs are sung in? In this case it's a liveshow from Honeymoon Suite, but it might apply to all other live shows too.
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My understanding is that we should use what's actually on the DVD, as determined by the DVD menu and/or software.

Take as example, the totally magnificant "Black Symphony" by Within Temptation, 0 16861 09239 9.

Band are Dutch; the concert is shot in Holland, Sharon's vocals are mostly in English (with a bit of Latin thrown in for good measure!) , the band talk to the crowd in Dutch (with English subtitles). Disc is produced by GUN Records GmbH (Germany)

DVD menus are in English

Software reveals three English soundtracks and English subtitles.

Therefore I suppose the audio tracks should be English. However, I would not be dismayed by a concensus of using "Music Only" for concerts. In fact I see that I've been guilty of using "Music Only" in a couple of my recent submissions...... Whoops      I'd better go and correct them!
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For me, 'Music Only' implies 'no words'.  If there are any words, either spoken or sung, I would use that language for the audio track.
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For me, 'Music Only' implies 'no words'.  If there are any words, either spoken or sung, I would use that language for the audio track.


And then there's Philip Glass's Koyaanisqatsi........there's only one word (although repeated/sung several times), and I don't think Hopi is in the list of languages.
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For me, 'Music Only' implies 'no words'.  If there are any words, either spoken or sung, I would use that language for the audio track.

That's what I mean too. "Music Only" in my eyes are soundtrack from movies selectable from audio menu. But I see now that I contributed it as Music Only and not English
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For me, 'Music Only' implies 'no words'.  If there are any words, either spoken or sung, I would use that language for the audio track.

That's what I mean too. "Music Only" in my eyes are soundtrack from movies selectable from audio menu. But I see now that I contributed it as Music Only and not English


Ah, but if there's singing in the soundtrack......what then?
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For me, 'Music Only' implies 'no words'.  If there are any words, either spoken or sung, I would use that language for the audio track.

That's what I mean too. "Music Only" in my eyes are soundtrack from movies selectable from audio menu. But I see now that I contributed it as Music Only and not English


Ah, but if there's singing in the soundtrack......what then?

Then we have to create a "Singing Language" audio track
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Just shoot me now. 

*pulls out my shot-gun...kaclick..BLAM*
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*pulls out my shot-gun...kaclick..BLAM*

Okay.... but what is the language of such sound effects?
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For me, 'Music Only' implies 'no words'.  If there are any words, either spoken or sung, I would use that language for the audio track.


Fully agree with Unicus. I use Music Only for instance for the music that media companies will put on DVD to accompany silent movies. And the profiles of my UK version of Koyaanisqatsi abnd Powaqqatsi mention Music Only too - and I don't feel tempted to change it.

In the case Mole mentions I would use English as well, but NOT because software says so, but because the vocals actually ARE (mostly) in English. I've encountered quite a few cases where the language label on a particular audio track on disc did NOT match the actual language. I treat cases like that much the same way we do cases where cover info is wrong: I'll always go for what is actually on disc, and not for how it's labeled.
Recently I've also encountered cases where the DVD menu gave me a choice between three audio tracks and when I proceeded to play the film and check the available audio tracks with PowerDVD, there were actually four tracks on disc - for some strange reason the company that had produced the release had chosen not to include an MPEG-2 audio track in the DVD menu, even though it was on disc. In these cases I contributed four audio tracks, not three.

Etc. etc.

Bottom line IMO: go by what you can verify to actually be on disc, and forget about labels, menus, covers etc.
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*pulls out my shot-gun...kaclick..BLAM*

Okay.... but what is the language of such sound effects?

Norwegian it is, sort of...
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Klingon?  
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