Topic: Always properly tag your music (Read 16882 times)

Ballard · « **Reply #50 on:** 20 Nov 2007, 07:06 »

Didgeridoo.

Thrillho · « **Reply #51 on:** 20 Nov 2007, 09:43 »

Quote from: Daniel on 19 Nov 2007, 14:12

I was going to say, DynamiteKid is basically iTunes organizational method.

1. As I said, I enjoy doing it. It's like surfing the Asperger's wave.

2. Fuck iTunes, and iPods.

3. Tagging genres? Why bother. You'll never find a comprehensive enough list...I just put 'alternative,' 'other' or 'unknown' for the most part.

thepugs · « **Reply #52 on:** 20 Nov 2007, 15:49 »

While MusicBrainz usually works pretty well, occasionally I've had it throw in weirdo underscores and things for longer filenames. That's when I use The Godfather.

In addition to having a kickass name for a piece of software, it works well!

Luke C · « **Reply #53 on:** 20 Nov 2007, 17:22 »

Quote from: KharBevNor on 17 Nov 2007, 07:19

Does anyone remember back in the old days, with things like Kazaa, where you'd have tracks tagged with completely the wrong artist? I vividly remember a kid once who told me what a big Cradle of Filth fan he was, saying that one of his favourite songs was their cover of 'Fear of the Dark'.

You know, the one by Graveworm.

God yes. I sometimes downloaded tracks thinking "this could be pretty sweet" only to find out the idiot who had uploaded had no clue about anything.

brew · « **Reply #54 on:** 20 Nov 2007, 20:17 »

How should classical releases with different composers and performers (as in the original post) be tagged? Composer makes the most sense as the "artist", but what's standard?

mberan42 · « **Reply #55 on:** 20 Nov 2007, 20:44 »

Quote from: DynamiteKid on 20 Nov 2007, 09:43

1. As I said, I enjoy doing it. It's like surfing the Asperger's wave.

2. Fuck iTunes, and iPods.

DK, you just went up like twelve points in my book. I'm nearly as anal as you about tagging my music (I always go Artist - Album - Disc - Track - Song, as I find tagging things with track number first leads to massive confusion when organizing by filename) and I cannot stand iTunes, iPods or anything else Apple. I own a Creative Zen Vision:M mp3 player and love it. 30 gigs, the thing is a workhorse - it's lasted me for 3.5 years of at least 7 hours per workday of constant use. I've dropped the thing a million times and still haven't had any problems with it, although the top section is separated a bit from the bottom section.

Tom · « **Reply #56 on:** 24 Nov 2007, 12:20 »

On Limewire 'bout 100 different users have Disconnect the Dots - Panic! At The Disco, not Of Montreal.

GenericName · « **Reply #57 on:** 24 Nov 2007, 13:14 »

I'm pretty sure that post also deserves to be in the Things That Make You Embarrased to be Human thread as as well.

(Except that that thread got really depressing and serious, so that would kinda not fit. Oh well.)

John Curtin · « **Reply #58 on:** 24 Nov 2007, 16:59 »

Quote from: brew on 20 Nov 2007, 20:17

How should classical releases with different composers and performers (as in the original post) be tagged? Composer makes the most sense as the "artist", but what's standard?

There's a 'Composer' tag for a reason, you know. The Artist tag should be the performer.

Most last.fm people disagree but those people are less fun to be around than I am so they are wrong. Their approach is to tag the composer in the "Artist" field and the artist in "some other field". I mean that's theoretically ok (ignoring the fact that there is a perfectly good ID3 tag called 'Composer') because you still retain all the information, but the biggest issue is the fact that I do not want to have to retag 3000 tracks just because last.fm doesn't work the way it should.

So yeah, put the composer's name in the Composer tag, and the artist's name in the Artist tag. Pretty self-evident really.

squawk · « **Reply #59 on:** 24 Nov 2007, 20:07 »

Quote from: n0t_r0bert_b0yle!! on 24 Nov 2007, 12:20

On Limewire 'bout 100 different users have Disconnect the Dots - Panic! At The Disco, not Of Montreal.

what

IronOxide · « **Reply #60 on:** 24 Nov 2007, 20:18 »

All white bands sound the same to me.

Tom · « **Reply #61 on:** 24 Nov 2007, 23:44 »

What?!

Dimmukane · « **Reply #62 on:** 25 Nov 2007, 18:46 »

I second this statement.

Thrillho · « **Reply #63 on:** 26 Nov 2007, 05:36 »

Quote from: IronOxide on 24 Nov 2007, 20:18

All white bands sound the same to me.

You're either reasonably funny, or were born without ears.

Ocarina654 · « **Reply #64 on:** 26 Nov 2007, 14:00 »

Taggin FLAC and SHN files is where it gets tricky.
For FLAC since the format doesn't hold on to the tags itself (I think...) you have to have the MD5 file to tell your media player what the song is, but sometimes they load properly and you're stuck with a music library with a bunch of Album: Unknown. Artist: Unknown. Title: Track01, Track02, etc.

I don't even KNOW what the deal with SHN is.

carrotosaurus · « **Reply #65 on:** 30 Nov 2007, 13:26 »

SHN is a format that only people who collect jam band shows have. I know because I used to be one of those people.

Spinless · « **Reply #66 on:** 30 Nov 2007, 16:57 »

You guys are on crack, IronOxide's post was pretty hilarious.

Ocarina654 · « **Reply #67 on:** 30 Nov 2007, 19:59 »

I know what SHN is, as a format, but I have no idea how its tagging works.

I've got shows in SHN but fuck if I know the track names.

Tom · « **Reply #68 on:** 30 Nov 2007, 20:43 »

Quote from: Spinless on 30 Nov 2007, 16:57

You guys are on crack, IronOxide's post was pretty hilarious.

I actually though it was funny.

Thrillho · « **Reply #69 on:** 01 Dec 2007, 04:58 »

Quote from: Spinless on 30 Nov 2007, 16:57

You guys are on crack, IronOxide's post was pretty hilarious.

Well, if you'd read my reply you'd see I had yet to decide if he/she/it was pisstaking or not.

Spinless · « **Reply #70 on:** 01 Dec 2007, 05:00 »

You mean, you weren't certain? Huh. Weird.

Thrillho · « **Reply #71 on:** 01 Dec 2007, 05:03 »

People have made slightly more ridiculous posts on this forum before now and meant them.

Hell, even if they hadn't, it wouldn't surprise me if someone had an opinion that ridiculous.

Beastmouth · « **Reply #72 on:** 02 Dec 2007, 21:44 »

Quote from: october1983 on 18 Nov 2007, 07:27

About 6 months back, my flat mate and I basically swapped our entire mp3 collections, copying our own stuff onto the other's iPod. Since then I've been happily listening to 69 Love Songs by The Magnetic Fields, which was in his collection.

It was only last week that I discovered that somehow in ripping the CDs, he managed to get the track order completely wrong, and never fixed it, meaning that I've been listening to a different album to the rest of the world (kind of). I'm thinking I'll just download it somewhere, rather than try to sort through all 69 songs.

I was thinking this thread was just a bunch of guys wasting time whining, until you reminded me what a pain tagging 69 Love Songs was.

It soured me so much that I don't even listen to it, just Get Lost.

So yeah, tag well.

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