dasmueller;665681 Wrote: > http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Beginners_Guide_To_Tagging > This is a good place to start. If you have classical look at that > separate section as well. > Try to develop a system to adhere to across your whole collection to > give yourself consistent results. Beware of online databases. They are > good but they also have errors and variations of how info is presented > for the same artist across multiple albums. > > I highly recommend Squeezeplay as a method of checking how your tags > will work. http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/?ver=7.6. > Tag a small number of albums and see how they appear in Squeezeplay. Be > anal about how you tag your music in order to acheive the best results.
good sources. I use mp3tag as my primary tagging program (yes, it does FLAC too). A few things about the way I do things (and I have very little classical): 1. every file has the usual ARTIST, ALBUM, TRACK NAME, Track #, Disc Number (only if more than 1 disc), GENRE, YEAR and some of the fields added by dbpa (codec used, etc.). 2. All tracks have track level and album level ReplayGain tags. 3. All Compilation albums I tag (i.e., use the field) COMPILATION = 1 (for non compilations, the tag doesn't exist) 4. I only use ALBUM ARTIST in certain circumstances (others have very different, and valid approaches to this and may put Album Artist on everything and not use compilation tag at all) a. albums that have multiple track artists (e.g., one song on the album might be two different artists). This is because if SbS notices different track artists across an album it will think it is a compilation b. albums where the track artist is somewhat different and I want everything to be consistent. So I might have Doug Sahm as album artist even though various albums might be "Sir Douglas Quintet", "Doug Sahm & Friends", "The Masked Men", etc. c. compilation albums where I want the album to also show up under an artist. Tends to be tribute albums, so I'd add "Roky Erickson" as the Album Artist on the compilation album "Where the Pyramid Meets the Sky", even though Roky is NOT on any of the tracks. 5. For FLAC files, I use a "folder.jpg" for album art in the album subdirectory. For mp3/AAC only files I "embed" the art in the tags. p.s. and in SbS, I tell it to label compilations as "Compilations" instead of the default of "Various Artists". This approach works for me with SbS, with using the same files in foobar2000, and I also create mp3 files (with embedded artwork) from my FLAC (with dbpa and no additional tag editing) and the files also show up properly in itunes for use in my ipods, iphones, etc. -- garym Location 1: Vortexbox Appliance 6TB (1.10) > SbS 7.6.2 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) Location 2: Win7(64) laptop > SbS 7.6.2 > Touch>Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio and laptop) Retired: SB3, Duet Receiver Controlled at both locations with: iPhone (iPeng), iPad (iPengHD & SqueezePad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.6 on Win7(64) laptop Ripping (FLAC) - dbpoweramp, Additional Tagging - mp3tag ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91167 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list ripping@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
