Tagging classical music

[DavidHB]

(14-04-2014 17:04)gnomus Wrote:  I ... have just retagged all my Beach Boys (some 800 plus tracks) as Rock/Pop in a matter of minutes.

That's exactly in line with my experience. MP3Tag is a great program.

Quote:That would work, but I then I would need to remember to keep changing the path when I rip a non-classical CD. I don't want my Beach Boys going into a subdirectory called "Asher, Tony".

Fair point. I make that kind of mistake often enough to know that it's fixed almost instantly with drag and drop. I could use field names in the path specification, but that adds complications of its own. In fact, the folder name will be typically just the surname ("Beethoven"), whereas the tag will be "Ludwig van Beethoven", so it's easier to enter the name as plain text. If the folder doesn't exist, dBpoweramp will at least create it.

Wherever possible I try to rip CDs in composer-related batches; that way one path entry may serve for a whole ripping session.

Quote:Personally, I like having the Artist field filled in with the various singers etcetera. This will allow me to find all the "albums" on which, for example, John Tomlinson appears. That could be rather jolly!

... and is entirely possible with the combination of MinimServer and Bubble DS/UPnP. There is a discussion to be had as to whether it is best to have all the artists on a track listed in the one artist tag or to have multiple artist tags with one for each artist. I'm undecided on the issue myself. But both approaches will, I think, work with UPnP Search.

David