05-18-2022, 04:52 PM
I admire the whole MusicBrainz enterprise and have a permanent bookmark in my browser to their mapping table.
Trouble is, there are competing mapping tables elsewhere, notably the ones used internally by tools like Mp3tag, Kid3, etc., and those tools try their best to hide their sausage making. The hapless user (me, for example) is left to experiment to find out which tag types are actually being used, let alone which tagging scheme. VORBIS comments blocks are easy peasy; Id3 frames are a PITA.
One manifestation of naive use of these tools is the FLAC files we see show up from time to time with ID3-encoded metadata.
As for the MusicBrainz database itself, it's good but I've run into some interesting anomolies, such as letting MusicBrainz Picard loose on a multi-CD issue of an opera and finding that the metadata in the tracks differed in style between the different discs. Sigh. I have a ToDo list of tracks/albums I need to clean up after the fact. The list is in my mañana directory.
Regards,
Kent
Trouble is, there are competing mapping tables elsewhere, notably the ones used internally by tools like Mp3tag, Kid3, etc., and those tools try their best to hide their sausage making. The hapless user (me, for example) is left to experiment to find out which tag types are actually being used, let alone which tagging scheme. VORBIS comments blocks are easy peasy; Id3 frames are a PITA.
One manifestation of naive use of these tools is the FLAC files we see show up from time to time with ID3-encoded metadata.
As for the MusicBrainz database itself, it's good but I've run into some interesting anomolies, such as letting MusicBrainz Picard loose on a multi-CD issue of an opera and finding that the metadata in the tracks differed in style between the different discs. Sigh. I have a ToDo list of tracks/albums I need to clean up after the fact. The list is in my mañana directory.
Regards,
Kent
