Monday, October 27, 2008

Tagging Music

So i've spend the entire saturday fixing the ID3v2 Tags of my MP3. I couldn't finish all (the 50GBs) of my 'YET_TO_TAG' folder. But i managed to do half, on the easiest, of course. (Using ID3-Tagit for Windows).

Today i tried to run into the big problems: Classical and Electronic (DJ Remixes).

And there is no ONE way to tag a song, no formal rule...

So after checking out some forums, i liked the idea of Kerensky97 on this post:
when it comes to:
Classical music I use the composer as the artist.
Pop music the performer as the artist.
And DJ remixes is a gray area but usually the DJ as artist.

Hopefully i'll remember this and 'fix' all my music...

Next part of my winter will be images with their IPTC Tags...

2 comments:

  1. That's a huge work!
    I have a music collection with almost the same size and never though on update their ID3 tags!

    It looks like winter comes with a lot of "free time"

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  2. Diego,

    i tag my songs for 2 reasons:

    1. So i can search/browse trough my songs, using musikcube, iPod and iTunes.

    2. To Scrobble all my listening habits into last.fm:
    http://www.last.fm/user/felaiuki/
    So i know what i've listened to and can also get recommendations based on what i like (although this rarely worked for me and i don't used it so often, i already have too many songs : )

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