[Vorbis] Adviced way of tagging music
Adam Badura
adam at hdp.com.pl
Mon Jun 2 02:54:43 PDT 2008
I change a lot of my CD to Ogg to be able to listen them easily from my
computer (I use foobar, I was used to WMP but it does not support library
for Ogg files and plug-ins I found for this where poor) without the need for
frequent CD changing.
I like my music to be richly tagged. But with classical music CD it is a
real pain to tag those files. Typical problems involve:
- single CD contains different works (like Tchaikovsky's CD "Piano
Concertos 1 & 2"),
- single CD contains different works performed by different artists,
- some works (usually operas) are contained on multiply CDs,
- it is interesting to have both date of publishing (the date the work
was finished, the date it was shown for the first time) and date of
recording.
I want to preserve in tags info about the album from which the piece was
taken but I want to have "album title" to be set to correct data. So in case
of mentioned Tchaikovsky's CD I want halve of the tracks to have "album
title" set to "Piano Concerto 1" and the other half "Piano Concerto 2" -
however somewhere in the tags I want to have data that they came CD named
"Piano Concertos 1 & 2".
I could use some tricks like having "album title" set to "Piano
Concertos 1 & 2 - Piano Concerto 1" or something similar but this is IMHO
just a workaround and not a very nice one. It makes title much to long it
does not give enough information since for any plug-in or something that for
example downloads album cover this title would be useless and so on.
After some thinking I came to position when it seemed obvious for me
that what is required is an explicit separation of tags on CD (its releases
date, publisher, title and so on) and tags on work (its title, composer and
so on). For typical modern single-artist albums those data would be the same
in many places. However classical CD (and compositions like "Hits of Summer
2008") could benefit much from this.
Is anything already done on this field? Or is anything in progress? What
are advised ways of dealing with this kind of problem?
Adam Badura
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