Re: Tags, Tags, and more Tags ...
Hi again Paul,
Your listening is much more serious than mine. I do occasionally listen at home, I should more, but tend to be too busy. Here I listen to FLAC from my master library, and usually select what I'm listening to.
But although semi-retired, I'm now the Chief Engineer of two radio stations about 70 miles from here. Most weeks I'm driving there and back twice a week, sometimes more. I use Waze on my phone to warn about traffic jams and the police. (Speed limit is 55 but most traffic moves 70-75 when traffic is light to moderate, most of the time. Cops ticket apparently only when they have a quota to fill... If you drive at 55 you'll be the slowest vehicle on the road and at risk of being rear ended.)
So, since I have the radio set to Bluetooth to hear the directions from Waze, I also listen to my music, stored on a (full) 256 GB SD card in the phone. M4a's converted from the FLACs, now VBR, in the range of 150Kb/s. Sounds fine in the noisy car. 99 percent of the time it's on random choice, I don't want to be thinking about choice of music or dealing with selecting it when driving. But, if it was doable, I'd narrow the random choice somewhat, particularly on a given day. The software doesn't appear to be there yet for that, although Spoon's TuneFusion appears to be a step in the right direction. This becomes semi background music, and I hear a lot of music I have in my collection that would probably never get listened to otherwise. Yes, it can be jarring to go from a soft movement from a symphony to a 160 BPM Soca hit, but so be it.
I started ripping and listening on an Ipod when I was still working full time in the city and commuting by train. The chatter of people on the train on their cell phones was going to drive me to the crazy house. Listening to my music with a good pair of headphones kept me sane...
The issue with "concept" albums is real. I have a number of recordings of live steelband performances with an MC introducing the next number. The MC announcement is a separate track from the following performance. Very annoying to hear the announcement without the music that it refers to. Also, it might be nice to hear all the movements of a symphony together, in order, sometimes.
I did, in an earlier post here suggest adding a couple of tags to music files: If selected, play the track before this one first, and If selected, play the following track after playing this track. ("yes" or "no" tags) But players would have to be programmed to execute those commands. Realistically not likely. It would, however solve the concept album problem.
John
Hi again Paul,
Your listening is much more serious than mine. I do occasionally listen at home, I should more, but tend to be too busy. Here I listen to FLAC from my master library, and usually select what I'm listening to.
But although semi-retired, I'm now the Chief Engineer of two radio stations about 70 miles from here. Most weeks I'm driving there and back twice a week, sometimes more. I use Waze on my phone to warn about traffic jams and the police. (Speed limit is 55 but most traffic moves 70-75 when traffic is light to moderate, most of the time. Cops ticket apparently only when they have a quota to fill... If you drive at 55 you'll be the slowest vehicle on the road and at risk of being rear ended.)
So, since I have the radio set to Bluetooth to hear the directions from Waze, I also listen to my music, stored on a (full) 256 GB SD card in the phone. M4a's converted from the FLACs, now VBR, in the range of 150Kb/s. Sounds fine in the noisy car. 99 percent of the time it's on random choice, I don't want to be thinking about choice of music or dealing with selecting it when driving. But, if it was doable, I'd narrow the random choice somewhat, particularly on a given day. The software doesn't appear to be there yet for that, although Spoon's TuneFusion appears to be a step in the right direction. This becomes semi background music, and I hear a lot of music I have in my collection that would probably never get listened to otherwise. Yes, it can be jarring to go from a soft movement from a symphony to a 160 BPM Soca hit, but so be it.
I started ripping and listening on an Ipod when I was still working full time in the city and commuting by train. The chatter of people on the train on their cell phones was going to drive me to the crazy house. Listening to my music with a good pair of headphones kept me sane...
The issue with "concept" albums is real. I have a number of recordings of live steelband performances with an MC introducing the next number. The MC announcement is a separate track from the following performance. Very annoying to hear the announcement without the music that it refers to. Also, it might be nice to hear all the movements of a symphony together, in order, sometimes.
I did, in an earlier post here suggest adding a couple of tags to music files: If selected, play the track before this one first, and If selected, play the following track after playing this track. ("yes" or "no" tags) But players would have to be programmed to execute those commands. Realistically not likely. It would, however solve the concept album problem.
John
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