Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] How to tag a lot of non-album tracks?

2019-11-08 Thread d6jg
kappclark wrote: > I have struggled getting the correct date for all my singles. (60s and > 70s) Using musicbrainz got coverart, but then the year was usually the > date of the compilation album's creation, not the actual single's > release year. Had Sonny and Cher released in 1997 etc. I saw wh

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] How to tag a lot of non-album tracks?

2019-11-08 Thread kappclark
w3wilkes wrote: > I made a conscious decision that I don't care about the original album > title / track # on that album for my singles in my singles folder. My > tagging of my singles does have the correct dates and genres for each > music file in the singles folder. If I end up acquiring an al

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] How to tag a lot of non-album tracks?

2019-11-07 Thread garym
For any single tracks I have, I create an album folder, even if such album has only one track. I use the ALBUM tag as well (which may not actually be the album the single appeared on, if any, but is simply the name of the song itself). Years ago I used mp3tag to automate this (automatically cr

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] How to tag a lot of non-album tracks?

2019-11-07 Thread w3wilkes
Rnee wrote: > That's a way too. > > I do have them in separate folders. > I wonder if it's possible to get the correct dates, genre and album > titles in some way, without doing this manually since I already have > spent a lot of time on this. > Especially dates and genre are important for adva

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] How to tag a lot of non-album tracks?

2019-11-07 Thread d6jg
w3wilkes wrote: > My cover art in my whole library is all as stand alone *.jpg files, no > embedded cover art in any of my music media files. I have front cover, > back cover, inside pages .jpg files and any .pdf booklets for an album > in the album folder too so that I can use the "Music and Ar

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] How to tag a lot of non-album tracks?

2019-11-07 Thread w3wilkes
d6jg wrote: > Doesn't that cause issues with cover art? > IIRC LMS reads the first track in a folder for cover art and uses that > if its available. If not it looks for folder.jpg or cover.jpg. > How do you handle it? My cover art in my whole library is all as stand alone *.jpg files, no embedd

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] How to tag a lot of non-album tracks?

2019-11-07 Thread d6jg
w3wilkes wrote: > I'm sure there's all kinds of ways to handle this. My way is to have > them all in the same folder and I've set the Album Title to "Singles" > and the Album Artist to "Various" and the Track Artist to the actual > performer of the track. Doesn't that cause issues with cover ar

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] How to tag a lot of non-album tracks?

2019-11-07 Thread reinholdk
Rnee wrote: > > I wonder if it's possible to get the correct dates, genre and album > titles in some way, without doing this manually since I already have > spent a lot of time on this. > Especially dates and genre are important for advanced searches. You shouldn't expect too much 'correctness

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] How to tag a lot of non-album tracks?

2019-11-06 Thread Rnee
That's a way too. I do have them in separate folders. I wonder if it's possible to get the correct dates, genre and album titles in some way, without doing this manually since I already have spent a lot of time on this. Especially dates and genre are important for advanced searches. pCP v5.0.

Re: [SlimDevices: Ripping] How to tag a lot of non-album tracks?

2019-11-06 Thread w3wilkes
I'm sure there's all kinds of ways to handle this. My way is to have them all in the same folder and I've set the Album Title to "Singles" and the Album Artist to "Various" and the Track Artist to the actual performer of the track. Main system - Rock Solid with LMS 7.9.1 Official on WHS 2011 -

[SlimDevices: Ripping] How to tag a lot of non-album tracks?

2019-11-06 Thread Rnee
Hi all As well as having full cd's I also have quite a lot 'orphaned' songs of which I would like to correct the tags. I mostly use mp3tag but tagging these files is a real pita. Now I tried with picard musicbrainz but most of the songs are identified as being part of compilation cd's so even da