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

[DavidL]

Hello Serge - you are certainly more geeky than I am as regards tagging!

Below I interpolate in your posting some possible help.

(06-12-2017 04:49)lyapounov Wrote:  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.

When necessary I use searches (via BubbleUPnP) on 'artist' or 'album artist' to solve this problem. In your example I would have set Ferenc Fricsay as album artist unless the recording was a concerto, when I'd set the soloist as album artist, but I would set Fricsay in the artist list. In both instances a search would display occurrences of Fricsay.

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.

I think you are trying to squeeze a quart into a pint pot here. Tagging classical music is as you say complex and ideally you'd like to have a relational database. You can set as many tags types as you wish but in the end the music is a flat 'card-file' database so you have to rely on searches. As I described in the other thread once your library becomes large these searches/ordering can take a noticeable time.

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

Hope this helps

David