Tagging classical music

[Budgie]

(16-03-2017 16:28)paultaylor Wrote:  

(16-03-2017 15:40)Budgie Wrote:  1. Why musicbrainz? Many of my cds are not in that database but are in freedb. Is it an option to use either?

Hi thanks for your interest, Freedb provides no more than the basic metadata and is not really sufficient quality for use in automated tagging. Additionally the Freedb primary lookup is by the checksum that can be created when you rip from the CD, but once you have ripped the CD and just have a set of files that checksum cannot be recreated from the files. So whereas a tool like DbPoweramp looks up metadata when ripping, SongKong can be used on already ripped files, incomplete albums ectera.

We don't just use MusicBrainz, we also use Acoustid and Discogs, between all three we usually get pretty good coverage.

Hi Paul and many thanks for a clear and helpful reply. Beginning to understand.

In due course I shall have a look at how to upload some of the metadata I have created by tagging disks that are not yet on musicbrainz.

There is one issue which may cause problems with this. I now rip with Audex and use the file offset capability so that, for example, a three cd set is ripped into one directory with files numbered accordingly. This way the whole work ends up in one directory. Will this prevent me making a useful contribution to musicbrainz?