Phil Leigh;656917 Wrote: > So, in preparation for this, would it make sense to add MB tags to my > files?... Will I get any benefit from this?... And will it mess up > SBS? >
Generally speaking, getting musicbrainz identity tags into your music files are a good investment and it won't break anything in SBS. The thing that can break things is if the tagging tool you use overwrites other tags. If you use the Musicbrainz Picard tagger, it will not just write the musicbrainz identity tags it will also write ARTIST, ALBUMARTIST, ALBUM, TITLE tags. So you might want to be careful if you know your tagging is properly done and you don't want it to be overwritten by Picard. My experience is that for pop/rock music musicbrainz metadata is very good and I've never felt any need to change anything. The only thing I don't remember for sure is if Picard also writes GENRE tags, if it does, that might be something that could cause problems if you have carefully tagged your music with the GENRE tags you want. If you use the puddletag tagger, I believe you have the choice to only write the identity tags without the risk to mess up your other tags. However, I'm not sure anyone has got puddletag to work on Windows yet, so if you are a Windows user it might not be an option. The advantage of having musicbrainz identity tags in your files today is: - SBS and TrackStat will be able to keep statistics data, like ratings and play counts, even if you move/rename the files on the disk. - In the future 'SMD' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90278) is going to use them to retrieve extra metadata from online services. -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User:Erland). If my answer helped you and you like to encourage future presence on this forum and/or third party plugin/applet development, 'donations are always appreciated' (http://erland.isaksson.info/donate)) Interested in music discovery ? See 'Social Music Discovery (SMD)' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=656713) project. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49483 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
