MrSinatra;178476 Wrote:
>
> i use winamp to edit my tags, it does it quick and nicely, AND it does
> v1 and v2 together. while some early few seem to not have v2 tags, i
> have yet to see any disagreement between a v1 and v2 tag.
I never said disagreement: but you have to make sure that album titles
are consistent across -all- tracks of the album. "The Greatest Album
EVER" and "The Greatest Album Ever" are not the same... even if they
are in the same box set.... the only way slimserver knows that they are
the same is if they have the same ALBUM tag.
If you use id3v1, then you can expect truncations. Poorly "designed"
spec (well, "designed" is used loosely)...
>
> and i also installed mp3tag, but i haven't used it much. i have yet to
> see any "messed up" tags in it though, or in winamp. i'm not saying all
> my tags are perfect, but i just haven't seen anything too crazy in them.
It doesn't have to be "too crazy" .. inconsistent will do.
>
> ok, so i first looked at this album with winamps 'view file info'
> feature.
>
> in winamp, it had both v1 and v2 tags that seemingly agreed. composer
> and album artist were blank on some tracks, not blank on others.
That sounds very inconsistent. Fix that.
>
> so is that why one CD by one artist will say its by 5 artists?
> > > >
> >
> > If there are 5 artists listed, yes.
> >
> > > > > > >
> > > seems dumb to me... why would composer or any other tag, be conflated
> > > with the 'artist' tag?
> > >
> > >
> > > artist should only relate to the artist tag, not other tags. to relate
> > > it to composer is confusing. if you want to know compsers, pull
> > > composers.> > > >
> >
> > And if you don't want to know composers, you can uncheck the box on
> > Server Settings/Behavior. It would be nice to have "composers on
> > classical music only," but then you get into "how do you tell if it
> > is classical?"
> >
> > As for tags: now you know why I spend so much time at Musicbrainz.
> > Getting tags correctly is a non-trivial task, especially when freedb
> > is filled with tons of inconsistent crap.
> > ("The Beatles", "Beatles, The", "BEATLES", and whatever anyone else
> > felt like adding...) if you trust that stuff into your tags, yes,
> > they will be inconsistent and screwed up. (And, yes, even
> > Musicbrainz has typos and annoyances... but at least I can edit
> > them and other people are looking for the same problems.)
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