[mythtv-users] MythMusic -how do you organize your music?

[BP]

Cotter, Paul M. wrote:

> 
> And I agree with Isaac - if you don't steal your music, the tags are
> usually spot on - I've never had a problem.
> 
> Paul Cotter
> 
>

Not from my experience.  I ripped approximately 500 CDs that I own.  I 
found that CDDB has lots of inconsistencies.  For instance, some artists 
that I own several CDs from, had a different artist name for each album. 
  Some had a "the" inserted at the beginning or a ", the" at the end. 
Others had things like "Liverpool, England" inserted to the artist for 
one album, but not others.  Some had all the members of the band and the 
copyright date appended to the artist name.  Add to this that the 
sorting in Myth is case sensitive and I didn't rip/encode with a case 
filter (again CDDB was not consistent).  Other problems also arise with 
compilation albums such as soundtracks.  Do you want the artist tag 
specified as the movie name, the actual artist name, or as "Various 
Artists"?  I also had some mp3s I ripped six or seven years ago that the 
CD is now too scratched to play.  I had no clue about tags back then.

After spending a couple weeks ripping all my CDs, I spent about five 
weeks cleaning tags.  While doing that cleanup, the directory sort was 
very valuable.  Then, I was only able to switch to tag sort by reworking 
a patch (I submitted it, but not sure if it's in CVS or not) to rescan 
all files and update the metadata as I didn't want to lose all the 
ratings I had spent time doing.