erland;638887 Wrote: > Just out of interest, which tagging software do you use ? > Do you import data from freedb, musicbrainz or other similar services > or do you enter it manually ? > If you import data, doesn't that produce an ALBUMARTIST tag ? Have you > just removed this manually before saving the imported data ? > > I haven't manually set ALBUMARTIST on any of my albums, but the > Musicbrainz Picard tagger has added it on all of them through a > MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMARTIST tag which is treated by SBS the same way as > ALBUMARTIST. > > The only tags I set manually are: > - COMPILATION=1 tag (which is just needed to make compilation albums > appear since Picard has set ALBUMARTIST=Various Artists) > - GENRE tag (which often isn't good enough when importing from freedb > or similar sources)
I use dbpoweramp for ripping to FLAC (and later conversion to an MP3 mirror for my ipods). I also use mp3tag for other tag cleanup work. I typically don't change the tags from the ones automatically suggested from dbpa sources (which looks at 4 or 5 sources and takes the best/most consistent). It will often (not always) fill in a AA tag. I delete this before ripping except for compilation albums (which do get a COMPILATION=1) or albums where at least one track artist is different (two artists, etc.). (I also use AA for artists that have various incarnations, Doug Sahm as album artist even though The Sir Douglas Quintet as track artist on all tracks on the album). I also delete the Disc number on any 1 disk album (most albums). I only want disc tag when there are more than 1 disc to an album. And agree, I almost always change the GENRE to something I prefer. I've gone back and forth as to whether I should have AA on everything, but at the moment I'm still NOT using AA where there is only a single track artist except for special cases noted above. -- garym ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88072 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
