[mythtv-users] Suggestions for file/directory structure for music for use with MythMusic etc?

[James Oltman]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Richard Morton <richard.e.morton at gmail.com
> wrote:

> I have over 18000 tracks and I use
>
> Artist/<album or single name>/artist-album-track#-tracktitle
>
> With meta data populated in id3
> Upsides it works with every application and allows album playback, easy to
> navigate.
>
> Down sides changes requie chaning meta data and file structure/name
>
> For instance there doesn't seem to be reliable data to provide artist names
> reliably, some times its:
> - flaming lips
> - the flaming lips
> - flaming lips, the
>
> And that doesn't take into account capitalisation variances.
>
>
Tagging is EXTREMELY important.  I'm in the middle (I'm only in the 'B'
range) of correctly tagging my music.  It's a very long process, but I think
it'll be worth it in the long run.  Getting a tagging application that's
full featured is difficult.  I've been using EasyTag and it's cross
platform.  It works really well, except, it doesn't have the "Album Artist"
tag.  This is useful on those "Various" artist albums I mentioned in my
message.  This tag allows a music player (Songbird for instance) to group
songs together by different artists that are on the same album.  Very nice
feature to have.  There was a patch someone added to EasyTag that had this
field, but I haven't tried it out.

Jim
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