Recommended tagging utilities

[DavidHB]

(30-09-2016 12:20)Glandwr Wrote:  Absolutely of interest David. Thanks.

My pleasure. It's good to share this stuff.

(30-09-2016 12:20)Glandwr Wrote:  I now like MP3tag very much thanks to your previous help and I realise that the network is a limiting factor, but " if you select multiple folders in File Explorer and open them in MP3Tag via the context menu, this works perfectly well." is another little gem which could work for me - great.

I'd been using MP3Tag for more than a year before I discovered the trick, by accident. Why the MPTag dialog doesn't allow multiple selections is a mystery.

(30-09-2016 12:20)Glandwr Wrote:  I haven't used Genre in my folder structure so I will also consider that when I've got the whole Genre thing ironed out; what a dilemma!

Genre is something you can easily over-think. If you don't do classical music, you may well not need it in your folder structure in any case. I have it because I need different structures for the different genres.

Not everyone would agree, but I've found it easier to divide my collection into a small number of 'top level' genres - classical, jazz, folk, world, pop etc. Apart from the folder and tagging schemes, the primary use of this categorisation is to filter out those items that are obviously not relevant to my current search.

(30-09-2016 12:20)Glandwr Wrote:  Any tips on a good 'standard' or spec. for non-classical genres appreciated.

There is no one 'right' answer, just what works for you. The really good thing about MinimServer is that it allows you to follow different browsing paths as occasion warrants or as the fancy takes you - essentially, you are limited only by which tags are populated and in the indexTags setting. As new thoughts about browsing occur to you, you can edit the tags and change the indexTags property, and, after a rescan, the new browsing options are ready for use.

A good starting point is to think how you preferred to arrange the CDs on the shelf, and how you selected the CD you wanted to play. At the very least, your Control Point, supported by MinimServer, should be able to mimic that process. And always make sure that your Artist, Album and Track Title tags include any terms on which you like to search; a search is often much quicker than going through a lot of browsing steps.

David