dasmueller wrote: > Looking at my library the other day I found an album that did not show > where I thought it should, but under various Artists. I could not figure > it out until this morning when I loaded it into MP3Tag and selected > Extended Tags. There was the compilation field. One track had > compilation 1. The other thing I found was that were seven other fields > populated which I would never use. > > I then loaded approx. 1/2 of my library into Mp3Tag and found about 30 > albums where one or more tracks were missing Replaygain tags so I will > fix those. The more interesting thing is that when I selected Extended > Tags the qty of fields was approx. 80 in Number ! It appears that I > should check the extended tags as a matter of routine when editing tags > for new music. A lot of my music is from live shows downloaded over the > web. My plan is to delete those fields that do not show in the std view > as I do not use them. Hopefully this will impact scanning time. > > Does anyone feel that this would be the wrong approach and if so why ? > > Thanks for your input
There are tons of tag fields that I don't use and I try to keep from having those in my rips. I think cleaning up tagging is a good idea, particularly finding these "orphan" tags (comp = 1 for only one track), missing RG value, etc. etc. mp3tag is excellent for this task as you have found. *Home:* VortexBox 4TB (2.3) > LMS 7.8 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* VBA 3TB (2.3) > LMS 7.8 > Touch > Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Office:* Win7(64) > LMS 7.9 > Squeezelite *Spares:* Touch(3), Radio(3), Boom, SB3, CONTROLLER *Controllers:* iPhone6 & iPadAir2 (iPeng8 & Squeezepad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.8 on Win7(64) laptop *Files:* ripping: dbpoweramp > FLAC; post-rip: mp3tag, PerfectTunes; Streaming: Spotify ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104378 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
