Tagging classical music

[DavidHB]

(30-04-2014 22:38)simoncn Wrote:  

(30-04-2014 13:45)DavidHB Wrote:  For instance, if you want to browse your library by composer as I do, each composer's name has to be spelt consistently throughout the library - you have to decide whether you are going to use, say, Sergei Rachmaninov, Sergey Rachmaninov, Serge Rachmaninoff or Sergey Rakhmaninov (all of which are in use), and then stick to your choice. Thankfully, MP3Tag provides an easy means of applying a tag value to a whole selection (possibly hundreds) of tracks at once.

Another option that might be worth considering is to leave the original spellings in your files and use the tag update facility of MinimServer to rename them all to a single consistent spelling.

I think that the example given in the Tag Update section of the User Guide, of using this feature to test out possible system-wide metadata changes without committing to them, makes sense. But I prefer to make the change itself by, so to speak, baking it into the dataset.

MP3Tag makes such changes easy for me, certainly easier and quicker than writing multiple tag update statements. This is partly because of the way my music folder is structured, so I can make good use of MP3Tag's ability to select the contents of a folder recursively, and amend dozens or perhaps hundreds of tracks in a single action. I can see that using tag update might be the easier option if the hard edit had to be separately made in many folders.

David