I'm trying to figure out the best tag strategy for my home, where almost everything is FLAC, while still allowing tags to be reasonably converted to MP3.
CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS: For non-classical compilations with single artists per each track I just set COMPILATION = 1 ARTIST = Single Artist for that track For non-classical albums that have a main artist with perhaps a couple tracks by other artists I set COMPILATION = 0 ALBUMARTIST = Main Artist ARTIST = Specific single Artist for each track (could be ALBUMARTIST or could be other) With both the above cases I don't really have a good way to handle multiple artists contributing to the same track. I could always list the "primary" artist first, then list additional arist, like so: ARTIST = Primary Artist; Contributing Artist1; Contributing Artist2 but converting something like that over to MP3 land, where Artist (TPE1) really needs to be a single person (correct me if I'm wrong please) doesn't work well. It also makes searching for a particular artist more difficult as your list of artists quickly becomes full of contributing artists for whom you only have a single track. Is there any standard tag for "Contributing Artist" for FLAC/Vorbis or ID3v2.4? My current thought is that I'll just put in a made up CONTRIBUTING_ARTISTS tag, with multiple values, in my flac files, and drop it when converting to MP3. It will be useless, but if we ever get a good standard I'll have the information. Any other suggestions? Since most conversions to MP3 map ALBUMARTIST to TPE2 (BAND) I'll probably just drop the ALBUMARTIST tag when converting to MP3. CLASSICAL: I have a "small" classical collection of 100 discs or so, which I have not yet ripped because its a pita. However, I'm finally getting started and again am trying to work out a FLAC tagging strategy that will work both for now and the future, with conversion to MP3 at least not being horrible. And yes, I may break up or combine multiple discs or albums to put pieces together that should be together, etc. So, not worrying about what I have ALBUM or TRACK or DISC set to, the other important fields are: COMPOSER = "Composer" CONDUCTOR = "Conductor" BAND = "Particular Band, Ensemble, Orchestra etc." ARTIST = "Particular (Single) Performer" If the album is just a generic classical CD with lots of different pieces by different performers (and possibly different Composers) then I'll set the COMPILATION flag so all those artists don't get pulled into my searchable list of artists. If the album is mainly by one artist, with a couple tracks by other artists I'll set the ALBUMARTIST tag (but drop it when converting to MP3). Again, I'll probably need to include a CONTRIBUTING_ARTISTS tag with multiple values which nothing will read and which will get dropped on conversion to MP3. COMPOSER will convert to TCOM, CONDUCTOR to TPE3, and BAND to TPE2, so those at least can come over to MP3 okay. So, any suggestions or improvements on this scheme? And any suggestions on how I might be able to search a CONTRIBUTING_ARTISTS tag using Slim Server? Thanks for any help with this. -- Tarn ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tarn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7414 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33823 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
