Re: [slim] Re: How do you categorize your music?
ceejay wrote: > For each piece (or for a whole CD if all the pieces are similar) simply > select the tracks in mp3tag and type in a genre string. Done! > My record so far, I think, is 6 values on one piece... I've got 20K tracks, 20% of which (I bet) could be properly multi-genre'd. > And the ones where I had to stop and think > about it were very interesting: I found myself listening to bits of > tracks I hadn't heard for ages, and looking up composers and pieces in > wiki or allmusic.com for more information. It took a weekend and was > worth every minute! 1) I believe you, and that sounds like an awesome and interesting pre-children project :-) 2) One weekend? My God, it would take me months. 2004 was already known as the "Great CD Ripping Year" and is not to be repeated, mild as it was. -- Chip Hart - Pediatric Solutions * Physician's Computer Company chip @ pcc.com * 1 Main St. #7, Winooski, VT 05404 800-722-7708 * http://www.pcc.com/~chip f.802-846-8178 * Pediatric Software Just Got Smarter. Your Practice Just Got Healthier. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: How do you categorize your music?
ceejay wrote: So ALL of my classical music gets the tag "classical". It also gets one of "baroque", "classicalperiod", "romantic", "20thC". Except sometimes for crossover work when it might get two of those. Then its likely to get tagged as one of "symphony", "concerto", "choral" or "chamber". So a Mozart symphony would be "classical;classicalperiod;symphony" and I can browse under any of those genres and find it. Or a Milhaud sonata might be "classical;20thC;chamber;woodwind". What do you do with Philip Glass? His work is currently tagged "Classical;Avant Garde" in my collection (mostly -- the Low and 'Heroes' symphonies add "...;Glam;Eno", and the soundtracks add "...;Soundtrack"), but it just feels weird tagging music composed in my lifetime as "classical". Is there another word for describing serious music written in the modern era? - Marc ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: How do you categorize your music?
ceejay wrote: > thats the whole point - neither takes precedence, I use multiple > values. Oh, oh, oh. That makes a lot more sense. [Mark that the second message I've replied to today where I misunderstood someone.] I've given some thought to multi-tagging genres. I've certainly done a few hundred artists that way, but have been reluctant to learn of some unintended consequence and my wife isn't happy with how much time I've spent tagging already (>20K tracks). > But often I don't know - but I do feel like > listening to something like... a symphony, or choral, or baroque, or > piano. This system lets me do that. Indeed. The thing I'm always afraid of is feeling like I want to hear, say, some jazz and I miss seeing Jonas Hellborg or John McGlaughlin thing because I sub-categorized it poorly. Using multi-tags would work. OK, John Coltrane is 'jazz' with every not he ever played...but maybe Sonny Sharrock isn't. ...but do you actually go through every piece by hand? Aren't there Kronos Quartet albums, for example, that might need a half-dozen different tags - in addition to "Classical" - on a track-by-track basis? I see my OCD kicking in. -- Chip Hart - Pediatric Solutions * Physician's Computer Company chip @ pcc.com * 1 Main St. #7, Winooski, VT 05404 800-722-7708 * http://www.pcc.com/~chip f.802-846-8178 * Pediatric Software Just Got Smarter. Your Practice Just Got Healthier. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: How do you categorize your music?
> How do I categorize? Here is a full list of the genres in my library. I find that, for genres, I have to use as few as possible because it's so impossible to properly "categorize" everything. For example, from your list: > 20thC > Chamber Which of these takes precedence? If someone writes 20th century Chamber music (and I presume you have a 21stC now...), where do you put it? Or 20thC Choral? My goal is to have a very limited set of genres so that I don't miss something I wanted to listen to because I went down the wrong path. Worse, once you start to sub-categorize things, you can play semantic games forever. Is KISS really hard rock? Or Glam? Or Metal? -- Chip Hart - Pediatric Solutions * Physician's Computer Company chip @ pcc.com * 1 Main St. #7, Winooski, VT 05404 800-722-7708 * http://www.pcc.com/~chip f.802-846-8178 * Pediatric Software Just Got Smarter. Your Practice Just Got Healthier. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: How do you categorize your music?
Quoting kaen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > id3 v1+2 all in lowercase ACK! You are hitting my OCD trigger! Can I come over and fix this to 'normal' case? Please? -- Miss October 3rd? Make every day a Day Against DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), learn more at http://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: How do you categorize your music?
On 06/10/06, Richie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mmmm... When I browse my albums, I noticed that the albums I classified > in mutiple genres, like "Classical; modern" for example, can only be > seen in the "Classical; modern" genre. I would have thought that it > would be in the "Classical" and "modern" genres. Did you enter the ; character on the Server Settings / Behavior / MULTIPLE ITEMS IN TAGS field? Richard Oops, I didn't notice you were using FLAC. Whilst the above should work, FLAC does support the use of multiple genre tags. Richard ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: How do you categorize your music?
Mmmm... When I browse my albums, I noticed that the albums I classified in mutiple genres, like "Classical; modern" for example, can only be seen in the "Classical; modern" genre. I would have thought that it would be in the "Classical" and "modern" genres. Did you enter the ; character on the Server Settings / Behavior / MULTIPLE ITEMS IN TAGS field? Richard ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
