jdk wrote: > I have stayed out of this discussion, as I long ago recognised that no > program will suit everyone when it comes to tagging and tag > interpretation -- developers simply have to make a decision. That's > because, despite the ID3 "standard" and the like, no standard has ever > been universally adopted by all programs and devices. > > Personally, I prefer programs that make no guesses about my files -- if > tags are blank, they're blank. Foobar2000 is one that works this way. > > The main reason I prefer this is that, although I take great care over > my tags, I have developed a "non-standard" method of tagging over the > years. Not because I wanted my own system, but because so many programs > and (particularly) playback devices implemented a non-standard feature > set. > > For example, although it's considered bad practice, I have always > duplicated the Composer tag in the Artist tag (for classical music) -- > because many portable playback devices default to showing the artist and > refuse to show the composer. > > Another example: I recently tried out Musicbee > (http://getmusicbee.com/), a PC music manager which seems to be highly > regarded by many people. The result was confusion (for me). > > I have always left my "Album Artist" tags blank, because over the years > many programs and devices have used the tag in unpredictable ways. > Because my Album Artist tags were blank, MusicBee copied my "Performer" > tags to the Album Artist tags in its library, and also duplicated those > tags as "Artist" in its music browser. I had to create "virtual" tags to > make sense of my music collection. > > So I quickly stopped using Musicbee, but the program obviously suits a > lot of people who are happy for the program to "guess" at the tags. > > I do hope that Muso continues to make as few assumptions about tags as > possible. But I understand jezbo's dilemma.
Excellent post - very well reasoned and clearly explained plus completely valid. If only detailed tagging were better implemented along basic tagging for popular music is pretty well set. Once one moves into other musical genres tagging becomes more difficult. I really would like to have musician listed on each of my many jazz files but the only way to get that info into the tags to enter it myself and that is not going to happen any time some. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91575 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
