sherlockjr

Just having read through these threads, I have a question for everyone: I was thinking about using "Artist" for the composer, and then using "Album Artist" for the performers. Has anyone else tried this method? Is there any downside to it? Will it break up the way iTunes holds an album together?

This is only for Windows, correct? Is there any good tagging software for the Mac?

Thanks, Eloise. It appears this software doesn't work with AIFF files... do you know of solutions that work with uncompressed files?

Thank you Musicophile and Old Listener! These links and info are great... I'll spend some time going through them today. They appear to be most helpful regarding classical music, which as we all seem to agree, is maybe the hardest to address. But I'd like to raise a few other tagging challenges/questions for you or anyone else regarding more general pop and contemporary music: - How do you use Artist Album vs. Artist in iTunes? - How do you use Grouping in iTunes? - How do you tag tracks that involve a principal artist along with a featured artist or artists (especially common in hip-hop)? And this is now a moot point as physical media goes the way the dinosaur, but why on earth do/did music companies not create CDs with metadata included in the tracks?!

Hi, all. I've been enjoying reading all the great information on this site, but there is one subject that I can't seem to find information on here (or anywhere else), and that is information on a good tagging methodology for music. I realize this isn't strictly an audiophile issue, as it has nothing to do with sound quality. But keeping music organized is critical being able to listen and enjoy the music that we spend so much time and effort capturing, storing, and playing back. I would love to know if there is a universal, consistent, audiophile-approved system for tagging music to keep libraries functioning at their best. Going further, a few specific questions: - How does everyone tag classical music? For me, this category has always proved the most difficult and as such there are the most inconsistencies in my library with this music. (And I'm using "classical" in the broadest sense of the word.) - Another problem category for me is movie soundtracks. Especially when they involve songs as well as score. - What is the best resource for checking tags? MusicBrainz? Gracenote? Something else? Thanks!