That's a good idea. You can tag and retag a small set of albums
relatively easy. And rescanning the whole library (use clear & rescan)
for testing is fast, so you can quickly see the results of your
changes.
FWIW, here's how I tag:
- TITLES fields have all words with leading letters capitalized,
while ALBUM names do not. This is just my preference, but seems to be
common. The capitalization of the TITLEs are done by an Mp3tag
action.
- All albums _except_ for compilations get an ALBUMARTIST tag,
regardless of whether this is simply copied from the ARTIST tag.
Where it's not copied using an Mp3tag action, it's because I set it
manually. ALBUMARTIST tags help to override the compilation logic in
SBS for albums where there might be a guest artist on one or more
tracks.
- Compilation albums all get a COMPILATION=1 tag. Non-compilation
albums get _no_ COMPILATION tag. Believe it or not, it makes a
difference to SBS when you use COMPILATION=0 vs no COMPILATION tag
(call it a quirk). The COMPILATION tag isn't strictly necessary, as
SBS's compilation logic will figure out most albums by their ARTIST
list and using ALBUMARTIST on non-compilations will keep an album
from being marked a compilation.
I also use the COMPILATION field for logic within my tagging program
itself. If COMPILATION=1 then I use one file renaming convention that
includes the artist name in the file name, otherwise the artist name
is excluded from the file name.
- Multidisc sets get a DISCNUMBER=n tag and a TOTALDISCS=m tag. You
can also use DISC and DISCC ("disc count") respectively. Single disc
sets get _no_ DISCNUMBER or TOTALDISC tags. This keeps the discnumber
"1" from being displayed for single disc sets in SBS when you have a
title format specified like "DISC-TRACKNUM. TITLE".
- CLEAN UP
- Any leading or trailing spaces are removed and multiple
consecutive spaces are reduced to a single space in the main fields
of ARTIST, TITLE, ALBUM, GENRE, COMMENT. This is done before the
sort fields below are created.
- Track numbers are stripped of any leading zeroes, to simple
integers. The leading zeroes in the tags are unnecessary for
sorting. They're only needed in filenames.
- SORT FIELDS
- An ALBUMSORT field is always added, using it to removing leading
articles where necessary. This is just automatically done in Mp3tag
using an Action, so is easy to do and it may contain the same thing
as the ALBUM tag. Strictly speaking, this is unnecessary for SBS,
since it has the ability to remove leading articles, but I prefer
to do it within the tagging.
- ARTISTSORT is added to any file with only one ARTIST field.
Individual names are set to 'Lastname, Firstname' and leading
articles are removed from proper names. ARTISTSORT is not added if
there's more than one ARTIST field.
- ALBUMARTISTSORT is added to all files (except those on
compilations, which have no ALBUMARTIST field). Works exactly the
same as with ARTISTSORT.
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