How to start or re-visit tagging of a large library

[lyapounov]

Hi David

thx for the answer !

my problem is not the structure of my library; on the contrary this is very clean (I could give you access via MP to my DS audio so you can see its content)

My problem is that, because of bad tagging, I can't access it via other methods. Like : I want to see all my albums conducted my Ferenc Fricsay, as an example. Or I want to see all albums where Aril Andersen is playing. Just because I am not sure of the tagging, and besides how to tag multiple interprets is still not clear to me.

Also, rules for tagging are not clear. I used to give in 1995 as exercise to my student to sketch the conceptual model (in database sense) of classical music recording. That is a very complex structure, which I know Simon has adressed. Except that, exactly like Artificial Intelligence, you can have the best algorithm, but it is worthless if the data are not here.

What I would wish is a magic wand : I define the tagging rules, and voila all my files are properly taggued :-)

I don't know how geek you are, but as I mentioned all my files are on a synology server, and I started writing a web access to those files so that I can get the ID3 content. There is a nice php library called getID3. However, this library can't write tags for flac files :-( Pity, because I would have been close to go from Rules -> retagging.

The only php routine I have done so far is that for any album I rip, I rewrite the tracks filename in a pretty format.

Anyway, I hope I am not too geek. Sometimes I dream of an exchange place where people who ripped their album could see what is the better tagging, and exchange their files. But the stupid music industry who still understands nothing to digital age (even if they pretend to) is always here to prevent customers to be smarter than them...

Cheers
Serge