Not everyone would agree, but I've found it easier to divide my collection into a small number of 'top level' genres - classical, jazz, folk, world, pop etc. I have it because I need different structures for the different genres. If you don't do classical music, you may well not need it in your folder structure in any case. Genre is something you can easily over-think. (30-09-2016 12:20)Glandwr Wrote: I haven't used Genre in my folder structure so I will also consider that when I've got the whole Genre thing ironed out what a dilemma! Why the MPTag dialog doesn't allow multiple selections is a mystery. I'd been using MP3Tag for more than a year before I discovered the trick, by accident. (30-09-2016 12:20)Glandwr Wrote: I now like MP3tag very much thanks to your previous help and I realise that the network is a limiting factor, but " if you select multiple folders in File Explorer and open them in MP3Tag via the context menu, this works perfectly well." is another little gem which could work for me - great. (30-09-2016 12:20)Glandwr Wrote: Absolutely of interest David. This process automatically generates a backup and is much less dependant on network speed. Then, using SyncToy, I synchronize the master copy with the production copy, and rescan the latter. I also run MinimServer on the desktop, so that I can rescan there and identify any issues in the master library from the log. All ripping, downloading and tagging is done in the master library. My other (in fact my main) method is to keep two copies of the music library - the master copy on the desktop and the production copy on the NAS. One oddity of MP3Tag is that its own file selection dialog does not allow the selection of multiple folders at the top level, but if you select multiple folders in File Explorer and open them in MP3Tag via the context menu, this works perfectly well. This allows me, more often than not, to select a subset of the library to work on, so that the MP3Tag grid populates quickly. My answer to this problem is twofold.įirstly, I organise the folder structure within the music directory on the basis of Genre > Composer > Album (for classical music) or Genre > Artist > Album (for all other genres). I haven't tried Qoobar (nor feel the need as MP3Tag is so good), but the speed of access will be a function of your network rather than the software, and will (as you have surmised) inevitably get slower as your collection grows. I'm interested in Qoobar as a comparison. The easiest way is to list all my tracks by starting at the upper 'FLAC' directory and filter out those I'm interested in, but as my music is on a NAS and accessed via WiFi, it can take a while to load (and I've only got 5000 tracks so far). (30-09-2016 09:46)Glandwr Wrote: I use MP3tag and am very pleased with it's capabilities especially now I'm refining my metadata as the filtering function is excellent. Eventually, I resorted to using MP3TAG under Windows which worked fine, but crikey - what a large amount of effort for something that should really be not that difficult. I can change the dialogue to change CUSTOM1 to COMPILATION under options, but this only changed the dialogue, the file is still tagged with CUSTOM1. This has no problem accessing the shared folders but I couldn't find a way of setting the COMPILATION tag. Under VMware I then tried the trusty MediaMonkey under Windows. All failed at being able to save updated tag file properly - meaning EasyTag, Kid3 and MusicBrainz Picard - I gave up trying others. Yes, they could see the files although almost all I tried didn't show the mapped drive in the open file dialogue - I had to rummage into /run/user/1000/gvfs/ and from there, select the mapped drive. I primarily use Linux but really struggled to find a solution that would work reliably over an SMB based shared drive to my Synology drive. bliss has rules to automatically find cover art, consolidate genres, fix music file paths and more.īliss can also be run on a music server or NAS.Last night I finally got round to sorting out some of my compilation albums that were incorrectly tagged, ie. bliss works the other way, by allowing you to specify rules by which your music collection is assessed and then automatically fixed. We select files, we multi-update, we've-tried-to-remember-the-genres-we-use and then we curse as we scroll through our playlists and find inconsistent artist names, years of release and split compilations.īliss allows you to edit MP3 (and other music file formats) tags in the traditional way, but it also offers a new way: governing your music collection with rules.Īs your digital music collection grows, the manual tagging approach becomes more error prone and requires more effort. We've organized our digital music collections for years with manual 'music taggers'. A simple, server-based tool for editing MP3 tags
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