I'm in the process of going through my collection and getting accurate tag information. My collection is more track-oriented than album-oriented because I don't often include complete albums, even by my favorite artists. I am concentrating on having accurate GENRE (including multiple genres when applicable) and YEAR tags.
The YEAR tag is most problematic, since I don't want the year the CD was released, I want the year the song was originally recorded by that performer. Some songs by some performers appear on 50 or 60 different CDs. Also, if you have a boxed set or greatest hits CD, it may have been released in 1995 but contains tracks released in many different years. In the end what I want is to be able to browse by YEAR and have every track actually recorded in that year. ***************************** It would be great to have a really accurate database based on a verifiable ID like the MusicBrainz ID - that way you'd know you had the exact same track as the one in the database. We could then submit extremely accurate info including composer(s), performer(s), soloist(s), album year, track year, possibly even a range of genres and sub-genres to choose from. Album reviews, lyrics, album art in different sizes, ReplayGain tags...just have a complete, accurate XML page for each track. Then you could build apps that would let you customize whet you wanted to pull off the page and into your own tags. On tag fields that are subjective (GENRE), maybe we could have a voting system - is that Steely Dan track Rock, Pop, Progressive Rock, or Light Jazz? Maybe you could tell your tagging program to include any genre that got more than 34% of the votes. That way, you'd get 1 or 2 good genre tags but never 3. Lots of ways to use the data once you're certain it's accurate. -- Pale Blue Ego ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pale Blue Ego's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=110 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22333 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
