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Post by millwalldavey on May 28, 2017 22:16:49 GMT -5
Sitting here taking a break from tagging my digital files, and was wondering about how the community handles these things.
I recently bought a new computer and one of my main focuses was on my digital library. I've been meaning to do something for years about the lack of artwork and dates and other information in my files, as I was so meticulous about my physical music collection. i bought tagr and went to work! Everything has go to have album art and the date of release on it. If I cant find that information, I find a reasonable version of artwork and deduce the date based on a little research. It's taking a while (I got about 700G of files to tag!), but it will be worth it i think.
Anyone have any ideas to share or advice to give about my endeavor? I'm doing well so far, but was just wondering about what everyone else does.
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Post by Glitch on May 29, 2017 3:38:48 GMT -5
What OS do you use? If it's Windows, check out MP3Tag. Great tool for mass tagging. www.mp3tag.de/en/ |
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Post by millwalldavey on May 29, 2017 8:11:00 GMT -5
What OS do you use? If it's Windows, check out MP3Tag. Great tool for mass tagging. www.mp3tag.de/en/Gone Mac now, but I used MP3tag for years and loved it! |
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Post by crust on May 29, 2017 8:28:32 GMT -5
Didn't know about this tool. Thanks for sharing it!
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Post by well paid scientist on May 29, 2017 8:34:41 GMT -5
i used to be super anal about this sort of thing but it was just too much time and effort. it still kinda bugs me tho so i'm gonna check out that link.
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Post by millwalldavey on May 29, 2017 10:33:26 GMT -5
I highly reccommend MP3Tag for windows based systems. The free version did everything i needed. If you are on a Mac, I reccommend Tagr. It cost $9.99 but it was worth it for everything I need to do.
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Post by v9733xa on May 29, 2017 11:04:37 GMT -5
What OS do you use? If it's Windows, check out MP3Tag. Great tool for mass tagging. www.mp3tag.de/en/Oh wow. I literally installed an old version of Winamp just because i like its simple tagging interface, even though i have a new Windows 10 laptop. But this might help! Thanks. I am also super anal about this stuff. I don't care a lot about genres (i simplify and keep everything rock, hard rock, metal, grindcore, or hardcore), but i have to get my parentheses and brackets perfectly right every time. And don't even get me started on featuring artists... EDIT: Dear Lord, after an hour of using this it is SO HELPFUL thanks so much! This is super organized and i love the interface on this. Awesome. Can't thank you enough. |
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Post by chocollama on May 29, 2017 14:16:37 GMT -5
I actually have my own designated genre-sections that I categorize all of my music into.
That way I don't get hung up on technicalities and have nice little clumps of similar music if I'm in the mood for something.
Having proper art and tags on my files is super important, and i always make sure to tag anything before before it gets dumped into the mass library.
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Post by millwalldavey on May 29, 2017 19:52:52 GMT -5
I actually have my own designated genre-sections that I categorize all of my music into. That way I don't get hung up on technicalities and have nice little clumps of similar music if I'm in the mood for something. Having proper art and tags on my files is super important, and i always make sure to tag anything before before it gets dumped into the mass library. I've always wanted to take my 100,000s of file tagged as genre "punk/hardcore" and go more specific (love to create a youth crew/straight edge genre) but I don't know if I have the patience right now. I'd panic about tagging a band as edge that isn't! |
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Post by bizasuge on May 30, 2017 0:03:44 GMT -5
I just recently got this way.I've been going back through my collection and adding years, the genre and trying to find better res album art for music i've had since like 2006 when the album art pics were super small.
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Post by Glitch on May 30, 2017 0:20:14 GMT -5
I used to be super strict about it, but Spotify made me lazy.
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Post by ꧁꧂ on May 30, 2017 9:11:32 GMT -5
I actually have my own designated genre-sections that I categorize all of my music into. That way I don't get hung up on technicalities and have nice little clumps of similar music if I'm in the mood for something. Having proper art and tags on my files is super important, and i always make sure to tag anything before before it gets dumped into the mass library. I've always wanted to take my 100,000s of file tagged as genre "punk/hardcore" and go more specific (love to create a youth crew/straight edge genre) but I don't know if I have the patience right now. I'd panic about tagging a band as edge that isn't! Imagine the bands that dropped or will drop the X. |
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Post by chocollama on May 30, 2017 13:27:47 GMT -5
I've always wanted to take my 100,000s of file tagged as genre "punk/hardcore" and go more specific (love to create a youth crew/straight edge genre) but I don't know if I have the patience right now. I'd panic about tagging a band as edge that isn't! Imagine the bands that dropped or will drop the X. That's the worst part, though. You can't tag an entire artist's discography as a specific genre. Going album by album is a pain sometimes, especially if the artist likes to mix things up. |
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Post by leech on May 30, 2017 16:01:15 GMT -5
this is handy
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Post by tomwaghorn on May 31, 2017 14:23:17 GMT -5
I'm glad there are others that do this, took me years to finally finish my collection.
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