The good way I use (and a benefit to the community, too) is to follow the 'MusicBrainz Style Guidelines' (http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/StyleGuideline), search (or enter/edit) your collection(s) there, and use 'MusicBrainz' -Picard- Tagger' (http://musicbrainz.org/doc/PicardDownload) to do the actual work of tagging and moving the files to their final destinations in your folder structure.
I find this a well thought-out system, since -humans- talk and decide about what is to be tagged how, and come up with a usable set of tags. MusicBrainz also use a unique "acoustic fingerprinting" system (using MusicIP's MusicDNS) so files can be identified from content, and tags corrected. Even if you find this not to your taste, you might at least want to check '-Picards- tag mapping' (http://musicbrainz.org/doc/PicardTagMapping) and '-Mp3tags- tag mapping' (http://mp3tag.de/en/help/main_tags.html) to find out which tags are already in everyday use and how they are used. FLAC tags are often referred to as "Vorbis Comment". Be aware that the -foobar2000- community often uses "ALBUM ARTIST" (with a blank) instead of "ALBUMARTIST". For MP3s (or any files tagged using ID3 information), it might be worth having a look at the 'defined ID3v2.3 tag frames and their meaning' (http://id3.org/id3v2.3.0#head-e4b3c63f836c3eb26a39be082065c21fba4e0acc). Re your questions: "John B. - Catalyst" Id probably tag like ALBUMARTIST=John B. ALBUM=Catalyst (disc 1: Liquid) DISCNUMBER=1/3 ALBUM=Catalyst (disc 2: Solid) DISCNUMBER=2/3 ALBUM=Catalyst (disc 3: Vapour) DISCNUMBER=3/3 (plus other tags) -if- following the MB Guidelines. This actually the way 'it is already in the MB database' (http://musicbrainz.org/artist/353856b7-8d79-4136-9ac6-7e47954e5be9.html). This has the adverse affect of -not- being able to group all three discs into "one" using SC (since the album name is different). If you wanted that (using FLAC as an example), youd be using ALBUMARTIST=John B. ALBUM=Catalyst DISCSUBTITLE=Liquid DISCNUMBER=1/3 ALBUM=Catalyst DISCSUBTITLE=Solid DISCNUMBER=2/3 ALBUM=Catalyst DISCSUBTITLE=Vapour DISCNUMBER=3/3 Same applies to the "Jamaican Story": ALBUM=Trojan: A Jamaican Story DISCSUBTITLE=DJ (disc 1) DISCNUMBER=1/30 ALBUM=Trojan: A Jamaican Story DISCSUBTITLE=DJ (disc 2) DISCNUMBER=2/30 and so on. I do hope SC will support usage/display of DISCSUBTITLE (or ID3v2 "TSST", APEv2 "DiscSubtitle", ---:com.apple.iTunes:DISCSUBTITLE, WM/SetSubTitle) in a later release. -Hint:- You are not totally stuck with what is in the MB database. If you prefer the second version (same album name plus DISCSUBTITLE) instead of the appended "(disc x)", Picard -can- be made to output those tags instead, using what they call "TaggerScript". -- Moonbase Moonbase: 'The Problem Solver' (http://www.kaufen-ist-toll.de/moonbase) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Moonbase's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21594 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58930
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