I always put the complete track title in because I will often have multiple versions of the same piece by different performers, or even by the same performer at different points in their career (perhaps there’s a live album). There is a difference between (Album) Artist and Performer which is not reflected above. There are so many ways in which it is deceptive and insufficient. IMHO that’s a completely useless way of labelling classical tracks. Thanks Chris! More From Lifehacker Australia
Got your own system or preferred tool for managing digital classical music? Tell us in the comments. This approach won’t always apply - for instance, you might also want to reflect a particular conductor or performer in your listings - but it does make more sense than standard tagging. This makes it much easier to locate pieces on an iPod, or a music app and to play the movements in the correct order. The track number should also be changed to the number of the movement. Using a tag editor, such as Mp3tag, and with a bit of cutting and pasting, the relevant tags can be rendered more classical friendly.įor example, the first movement of Beethoven’s piano sonata number 16 becomes: The problem is that the usual way of organising pop music is Artist -> Album -> Title, whereas with classical music, it’s Composer -> Composition ->Movement. And since it is a script, I would think that it should be simple even for a non-programmer to change or add additional field mappings.As any classical music geek can attest, most music players and apps do not handle classical music elegantly. The script either works for you or it doesn't. Very little, if anything has changed as far as tagging standards in the last few years. Or is the problem with the names of the FLAC fields that you're converting? Pretty much all of them are iTunes inventions, so I can't imagine other applications inventing their own. I'm surprised that you find COMPILATION or any of the sort fields don't map correctly to ID3v2.
Is 'CONTENT GROUP' a foobar invention? Other that foobar's 'ALBUM ARTIST', I don't think I've seen another application insert a space into a FLAC field name. JJ pointed out Robin Bowes' flac2mp3.py, but I'd prefer something (more) actively maintained. If it turns out that one of the other "player / management" tools does this particularly well that'd be great, but am wary of letting other apps (than Picard and MP3Tag) mess with my personal tagging standards. So I'm looking for a different tool for this specific job - I realize I could script something myself, but would prefer a canned tool - CLI or GUI's fine, main features are large batches at a time, and as many tags as possible, ideally using MP3Tag's fieldnames, cover art, maybe even lyrics would be nice but not that important at this point. CONTENT GROUP rather than CONTENTGROUP, COMPILATION, TORY, all the SORT ones.)
I've also noticed that I have to change quite a few of MP3Tag's default mappings in order to get the ID3 tags converted properly (e.g. RELEASETIME to ID3's TDRL, media TMED, trackid UFID.
I've been using Foobar2000 to handle the FLAC to MP3 conversion, but I'm finding some of the tags I want aren't supported, e.g.
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