Ripping a disc with 38 silent tracks.

[miggs]

With regards to disc with silent tracks, what does everyone tag then as?

I know it is a personal preference. But just looking for opinions.

Discogs use Untitled
https://www.discogs.com/release/7583224

Musicbrainz use [silence]

https://musicbrainz.org/release/a169b08f-f6ce-4ced-92a9-497ba3145172

This is in regards to a 'Five' album that uses 38 silent tracks to, each 6secs long, to space out a hidden track.

Thanks all.
Michael

[Spoon]

Personally I would delete those tracks.

[vilsen]

Me too. That is an extreme example, but even in cases with only one silent track I always delete it.

I also edit out very long silence at the beginning or end of a track. Who wants to wait for the music?

[simbun]

If you don't keep them, utilities that rely on the disc's table of contents will fail e.g. taggers, verifiers e.t.c.

I give them a title of '[silence]', use a dynamic naming string to add .silent before the file extension (.silent.flac) and exclude those file types from my music servers/players.

[vilsen]

That's true, but only if you need to re-check with a verifier at a later time or if you really need the disc-specific tags from e.g. musicbrainz. I don't, and FLAC has checksums for checking the integrity of the files.

These are odd cases anyway, so I don't feel it's a big risk being a little pragmatic.

This is all about preference of course.