Philip Meyer;651980 Wrote: > >One thing I think we should keep in mind, for some people said most > >Files have no Album artist or composer tag at all: > > > I rip with EAC and don't have any album artist or composer tags. I > REMOVE composer tags that are incorrectly put in my some meta data > engines, eg. if I tweak via Mp3Tag.
the current version of EAC allows you to set both AA tags and composer tags PRE-rip. (as well as use them for folder/filename construction) EDIT: it also allows for use of multiple online DB sources, that do AA, etc... Philip Meyer;651980 Wrote: > I only use composer tags for classical music - not pop music. It > doesn't seem right to me to put a mix of "The Beatles", > "Lennon/McCartney", "John Lennon", Paul McCartney" Lennon & McCartney", > etc in composer fields. Metadata sources, as used by Amazon and iTunes, > and all other apps is poor/inconsistent. well, thats fine for you, but others, like me, use composer tags, and lots of apps fill them in by default, just like AA tags, such as wmp and winamp. people can always edit their tags if they don't like what DB sources fill in. Philip Meyer;651980 Wrote: > For cover songs, I add a custom ORIGINAL ARTIST tag, and use Custom Scan > to read it and Custom Browse to navigate between original artist and > performing artists. i would rather use standard fields for standard uses, and thats why i use composer for this. its not perfect i admit, b/c sometimes the orig artist and the actual song composer are not one and the same, but i'm not that picky. my main goal is to just link names and artists i want linked, and this is a great tag to do it with, i use it mainly for searches. i don't show composers (meaning, i don't tick that box in the settings) in SBS. Philip Meyer;651980 Wrote: > > >SBS/LMS should NOT be optimized for people owning illegal-downloaded, > >bad-taged-stolen mp3-files, > > > I don't think that bears any relation to quality of tags. A new > rip/legal download could just as easily have worse tag quality or no > tags at all. agreed. -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 & droid (my home) / duet & ipeng (parents' home) - sbs 7.5.5b - win7 ie9 & xp pro sp3 - p4(ht) 3.2ghz, 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 - 49k+ mp3/flac ::VOTE FOR 'BUG 15604' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15604)!!!:: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89708 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
