For all intents and purposes my cheap-ass home stereo solution has been working out real well but there is one minor problem and it is a problem that many of my friends have laughed at me for or just shook their heads in disgust muttering, “Have you no shame? None!?” My tags are a total mess. Worse than having non-existent, bizarre combinations like “CountryFusionSpaceJazzBop”. No, I have bleed-over where song titles end up in track numbering and genres become a string of unsupported characters. It is sickening to look at especially since it renders Jinzora damn close to useless for the way I listen to music (smartlists on random).
Here are some highlights from the genre tag:
- ■Hip-Hop
- “Fantaisie-Impromptu in C sharp min
- 0.03
- 03_Chaconne con variazioni.mp3
- 4
- false
- Nameless (Radio App..”
- true
To give you an indication of how big the problem is there are 6446 tracks tagged with either “-” or are empty in the genre field and on top of that I have some 33049 tracks to check. An egregious case of WTF if there every was one. So now I need to figure out how to remedy this problem and wishing that I were more diligent about my tagging like some of my friends isn’t going to get me very far.
What I need is stupid simple, easy, and relatively accurate system as I have neither the time nor the patience to hand tag every single track. So to get my feet wet, I’m going to narrow the directories down to smaller groups and give the auto-tagging feature of EasyTag a shot and see how that works. In the past EasyTag has served me well but I’ve only used it in small isolated instances and am not sure how it will handle chewing on hundreds if not thousands or tracks at a time. Time to roll up my sleeves and get to work.
you should check out the taggers @ http://musicbrainz.org/
With all your files tagged either false or true, you can divide them into two piles! Very nice!
Thanks for the tip on MusicBrainz Picard. I gave it a whirl last night with some test albums and it performed well. It might do the trick working in concert with EasyTag to clean up the missing tags that some of the MusicBrainz records can have. Anyway I look at it this is going to be a long and arduous task. However, tagging everything either true of false would greatly simplify cataloging my collection….
When I saw this title I clicked on it thinking I would be reading about something altogether different, but that’s just my well-known obsessions working on me.
Well, if you could see my tags you would think that Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz were the architects… :-p