It's All About 'Style'

[monsterjazzlick]

Re: It's All About 'Style'

You can put anything you want in a Style tag; use whatever works best for you. If a Genre tag is good enough as is, leave Style blank.

Cheers JH,

Ok.

But would you go to the extent of tagging a 'Style' for each individual track of an album, should they all be different? Or would you create a single overall tag of (say) 'VARIOUS' for the entire album (as per Miles Davis's "Circle In The Round" CD)? Or, would you simply not include a 'Style' tag, period, for such recordings?

Paul

[Jailhouse]

Re: It's All About 'Style'

You can put anything you want in a Style tag; use whatever works best for you. If a Genre tag is good enough as is, leave Style blank.

[monsterjazzlick]

Re: It's All About 'Style'

Hi,

Would it cause an issue if I did not have a 'Style' tag of ever CD?

I mean, For 'Flora Purim & Airto' I place them under a Jazz 'Genre' and a 'Latin' style; which is all well and good

But for, say, Miles Davis's "Circle In The Round" double-CD - which is whisk through all his different 'Genres' - then would you create a 'Style' tag for each and every track?!:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_in_the_Round

And as you will obviously be aware, you can have a Jazz album (say in the case of the 1970's band 'Weather Report') where the Genre is 'Jazz', the band is famously known as playing 'Fusion' music, but not every track (on certain CDs) is 'Fusion'. For example, they may (as they often do in their live gigs) perform a classic song by Duke Ellington (ie. of the 'Swing' era)! Or even Jimmy Hendrix:

https://www.discogs.com/Weather-Repo...elease/2981870

In which case - for the latter two above - could you omit the 'Style' tag, or else write in 'VARIOUS'?

Cheers,

Paul

[monsterjazzlick]

Re: It's All About 'Style'

If you want more granular information about your genres, the Style tag would be a good way to accomplish it. Just make sure to use your definitions of style rather than what comes from the metadata providers. In my experience, those are worthless to the extent that I deleted them from all my files.

Thank a lot,

Yes, I noticed that what information is placed in by default is often contradictory. For instance, one Jazz CD I was ripping said: Swing, Rock, Blues, Ballad, Fusion! (or something like that); which is why I dismissed the option of using the 'Style' tag so early on.

Cheers,

Paul

[Jailhouse]

Re: It's All About 'Style'

If you want more granular information about your genres, the Style tag would be a good way to accomplish it. Just make sure to use your definitions of style rather than what comes from the metadata providers. In my experience, those are worthless to the extent that I deleted them from all my files.

[monsterjazzlick]

Hi folks,

Having ripped over 40GB of my CD collection to FLAC, today I started on a different genre (Flora Purim & Airto).

Although they definitely fall under the genre of JAZZ, I am considering tagging them with the STYLE of 'Latin'. I was not ever going to use the latter tag but today I began to think that it may be worthwhile. I originally started out with the minimum amount of meta-data as possible but gradually - as I have become more converse with dBpa - I seem to be adding more information as I go along.

So for Jazz, you could include the 'styles': bebop, swing, latin, fusion, funk, and so on.

But do many people utilise the 'style' tag, please? I mean, would it be worthwhile stopping where I am and going back over each (100+!) CD and adding this is (I assume using the 'Edit Tag ID')? Or would you just stick to (as I planned): Jazz, Classical, Pop and Rock?

Many thanks,

Paul