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Re: Tags, Tags, and more Tags ...
I've never seen a > used, with the exception of, <seague> between two tracks from a 24/96 FLAC file. On both the LP and CD, these are listed as separate tracks, but the music is continuous, I changed it to /
If you look at the track names from the metadata providers, most use / or - some have a space, on the LHS, some on the RHS, the rest a space either side - I use the latter.
I really like the idea of using the > !
I do have some live Miles Davis 1970s CDs where the tracks segue (between disc 1 and disc 2). I have not made any such personal amendments. It's a bit to ahead of me at the moment.
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Visit Live Music Archive for many thousands of high quality (legal) live show downloads. Great stuff, all different genres. And you'll see lots of ">"
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Be careful. I have always tried to avoid using semi-colon and forward slash characters in my tags (unless as a separator), as tag editing software use these characters as separators in multi-value tags.
Historically, there have always been issues with users using AC/DC in the artist and album artist tags.Comment
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I have used 'unknown' for an unknown COMPOSER throughout.
So for dialogue and interviews you use 'n\a'. A backwards slash as opposed to forwards?
For a 'medley', I have written:
(Medley) Blues / Jam In F Major / Drum Solo / Blues Refrain
On the CDs it typically states:
Medley: Blues / Jam In F Major / Drum Solo / Blues Refrain
I prefer parentheses to a colon.
Thanks,
PaulComment
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Visit Live Music Archive for many thousands of high quality (legal) live show downloads. Great stuff, all different genres. And you'll see lots of ">"
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I imagine that software that uses the forward slash character as a separator, interpreted AC/DC, not as a single artist but as 2 artists, AC and DC.Comment
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However for me and the reasons given earlier, I don't want to use forward slash, if I can help it, so for me:
Medley: Blues / Jam In F Major / Drum Solo / Blues Refrain
becomes:
Blues~Jam In F Major~Drum Solo~Blues Refrain
and the tilde character ~ tells me the title consists of a medley (of titles).Comment
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Re: Tags, Tags, and more Tags ...
mville,
For MEDLEYS:
(Medley) Blues / Jam In F Major / Drum Solo / Blues Refrain
should I instead use:
(Medley) Blues \ Jam In F Major \ Drum Solo \ Blues Refrain
Thanks a lot.Comment
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However for me and the reasons given earlier, i don't want to use forward slash, if i can help it, so for me:
Medley: Blues / jam in f major / drum solo / blues refrain
becomes:
Blues~jam in f major~drum solo~blues refrain
and the tilde character ~ tells me the title consists of a medley (of titles).
That's great mate.
I am going to make all the INTERVIEW tracks to an 'n\a' COMPOSER now.
I never even used that '~' symbol ever before!
And you have not experienced any issues with the '~' symbol appearing or being misinterpreted by different playback devices? I guess not.
PaulComment
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... I only have a few 'medley' CDs. But this is how they now appear in Foobar:
So you don't leave any space between each song title and the '~'?
Is the '~' just a symbol you chose because it does not have any actually effect on anything? I mean, it does not have any actual function as such?Comment
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I tried one using the forward slash, and for me, excepting in a Windows environment, it hasn't caused issues, so continued to use it. I am fully aware of the problematical symbols, and it could be that I've been lucky, but, so far, so good.Comment
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In this example (the Title tag), it will only be an issue for you if the software you use treats the Title tag as a multi-value tag and uses the forward slash as a multi-value tag separator (which is unlikely).
However, I have been tagging my library for years and even Illustrate has moved the goalposts in this regard and as such has caused me many issues, historically.
As a result, I now try to avoid the use of semi-colon and forward slash characters in my tags where I can (it gets difficult to avoid with genre and style), just in case the goalposts move once more.
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It may cause a problem, but I have yet to discover one. I could just as easily have used the > character, but such standards did not exist when I set off on my tagging marathon, many moons ago.Comment
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Thanks Oggy,
I have just been trying out the '~' kind suggestion and I have to say that I am favouring this format.
In Foobar, if I search for '~', then all of the 'medleys' appear!
I think I also prefer the visual appearance. In the attached Santana/McLaughlin (PNG) track, I saved 15 x characters; '(Medley)' swallowed up 8 of them!
Cheers,
PaulLast edited by monsterjazzlick; October 08, 2017, 05:27 PM.Comment
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