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lyapounov · 05-12-2017, 20:39

(23-11-2017 21:26)DavidL Wrote: The music library is set up in iTunes format i.e. Artist > Album. I have 93470 tracks in 18529 albums, sorted into 33 genres.
For classical music I use 'Album' for the name of a work e.g. 'Sibelius - Symphony No.5', and I use the Genre metadata property to categorise the classical music by period e.g. 'Classical - Baroque'.
My normal modus operandi for playing classical music is to first select a genre, then select 'albums', then select an album, or album/artist if I have more than 1 recording of a work.
The delays I am referring to occur between selecting 'albums' and the appearance of the slider at the right-hand side of the screen which I use to rapidly select the album to play. I have timed a couple of examples:

Hi David, I have a question for you, off this topic. So either we start a new thread on Music Tagging in this forum, or we continue via PM if any interest.

My library is roughly the same size as yours. 4380 albums; 78k+ tracks. 240 are Dsf, the remaining in Flac. Various origins: my CD ripped, my SACD ripped, Qobuz, HDtracks, etc.

Now, my tagging is not perfect. Qobuz does propagate the tagging from the Label company, which is never very good. Some of my CDs are not well taggued. Because my tagging is not perfect, and I must apologies to Simon, I am not using all Simon's beautiful features, shame on me. Therefore I have decided that my structure would be purely 100% based on my file structure. So I have 11 top lever folders (Test - Renaissance - Baroque - Classique - XXth Century - Opera - Jazz - Pop/Rock/Folk/Electro - World Music - Chanson Française - Movie music; plus a very complex sub structure different according to the top level folder.

Of course it has drawbacks : I can't do a search easily, some parts are ambiguous (as an example, I have World Music - Oud with one sub folder for any Oud musician but some albums are really jazz. Or I have Renaissance - AliaVox then all Jordi Savall albums except the one for Bach, etc...)

Now my question : how do you manage yourself the tagging ? Have you been able, at that level to have a perfect tagging ? Have you followed some rules, such as for classical, the album tag should contain (or not) the composer. Are all your classical composer clean i.e. first name last name. Did you put all the performers in opera. Etc...

Sometimes I fear that the work of re-tagging my library would be enormous; specially that I don't allow my Syno files to be visible on the network (only upload via SFTP)

Thx for the answers !

cheers
serge