09-17-2024, 07:41 AM
This is straying somewhat, but I'm finding it very interesting none the less.
In these case where the tagging is a mess, it is because the intention of the data was not defined. Nosferatu_cat's users all had different aims in what data they recorded, I don't know what excuse the metadata source for Kent's multi-CD mess was, but they certainly didn't have a clear enough purpose. In short, there may be a curated source for metadata that fits a particular person's purpose, but most likely it only suits the purpose of the creator, and that purpose might not be clear, or even have anything to do with music. We must therefore decide our own purpose, and modify the metadata to support that purpose.
Nosferatu_cat has decided that his metadata will be encoded in the folder paths, I use tags, but have a quirk where the album_artist can often be a record label, or a composer or another artwork in the case of film scores... The common thing between us all is moOde and it's remarkably flexible ways of accessing the metadata. Most music players will impose their way of interpretation on your collection, moOde tries to work with different methods (within bounds, obviously there must be limits).
So, to relate this back to the original post, dastinger has a clear intention, so is most of the way there. A little exploration of the capabilities of moOde and the existing metadata available will lead to an acceptable solution, but the solution could be one of many.
In these case where the tagging is a mess, it is because the intention of the data was not defined. Nosferatu_cat's users all had different aims in what data they recorded, I don't know what excuse the metadata source for Kent's multi-CD mess was, but they certainly didn't have a clear enough purpose. In short, there may be a curated source for metadata that fits a particular person's purpose, but most likely it only suits the purpose of the creator, and that purpose might not be clear, or even have anything to do with music. We must therefore decide our own purpose, and modify the metadata to support that purpose.
Nosferatu_cat has decided that his metadata will be encoded in the folder paths, I use tags, but have a quirk where the album_artist can often be a record label, or a composer or another artwork in the case of film scores... The common thing between us all is moOde and it's remarkably flexible ways of accessing the metadata. Most music players will impose their way of interpretation on your collection, moOde tries to work with different methods (within bounds, obviously there must be limits).
So, to relate this back to the original post, dastinger has a clear intention, so is most of the way there. A little exploration of the capabilities of moOde and the existing metadata available will lead to an acceptable solution, but the solution could be one of many.
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Robert
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