How do you tag DJ mix albums? Options

[zambaretzu]

Ones where each track has a different artist, but the overall mix is made by one guy, so Various Artists doesn't work. I haven't found a good way to do this.

[Digga]

why don't you insert title and artist (performer) in the corresponding fields plus maybe 'DJ xxx mix'.
i.e.
title: moohtadu (DJ xxx mix)
artist: MoohMen
album: DJ xxx Mix 2010

or you could eat a banana.

[kwanbis]

i either use album as artist, and year as album, and then tracks, or genre as artist, and album as album with (by dj), and titles

[bl4h]

Why can't you use Various Artists? That's what I do and I have no problems. Take a look at my screenshot...

[smthmlk]

I generally put the DJ's name for "artist", and then have "artist-title" of the individual track in the Title field.

So, given Bl4h's example (which is Fabriclive 16, mixed by Adam Freeland):

Artist: Adam Freeland
Album: Fabriclive 16
Track1: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Love Burns

resulting filename:
01. Adam Freeland _ Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Love Burns.mp3

etc.

And by the way, Fabriclive 16 is quality, as are most of the Fabric/Fabriclive discs

[kwanbis]

i never understood/liked the "V.A." thing, it means nothing for me, is dificult to search. when you have compilations, you usually search for its name, or the genre, or thats what i do. i never think, "oh, lets find some VA cds". i either think, "lets find some reggaeton cds", or, "lets find cafe del mar".

[start78]

Why don't u use a custom tag-field "Album Artist"? It's easy to insert in foobar and easy to create a sort string that recognizes this fields when they are there.

Tribute-Albums get the "Album Artist" they belong to, samplers are named "Various" and soundtracks get "OST". But each track gets the performing artists name.

[cologne]

I tag the person that made the mix under the "Composer" field, and I have it checked as a Compilation in iTunes. I keep the artist and title the same as they are listed on the track listing for the mix. So if you use an iPod, and have a lot of mixes, you can find what you're looking for by just browsing Compilations (on the 'newer' iPod models as long as you turn "Compilations" on), and/or through Composers (on just about every iPod model). You can set up iTunes the same way.

e.g.
Album: 10 Years Of Hardcore Vol. 1 CD1
Composer: Scott Brown
Track: 01/24
Artist: Interstate
Track: Lost Generation

It works out great if you use an iPod as your DAP, otherwise the "Album Artist" solution may work out better.

[grommet]

I wish Album Artist metadata would be more commonly used. This is exactly what it's needed for.

http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?ti...ds#ALBUM_ARTIST

This is so much better than iTunes "compilation" flag.

Oddly, Microsoft has a clue: Windows Media Player 10 & Windows Media Center uses and tags "Album Artist" in addition to "Artist" for MP3 and WMA. Now only if other mainstream media libraries/players did...

[MxM]

genre - [mixed by %DjArtist%] %album% - %year%\%trackartist% - %trackname%


i rip file + cue and cut afterworks, so i have no hiccups. %tracknumber% is within the id3tags.

oh and i dont tag %dj% and %artist% to the artist tags. its within the directory structure. the dj's part is to compile or acting live... not creating the track.

This post has been edited by MxM: Nov 23 2005, 12:06

[razer]

VA/OST - Albumname (Mixed by DJ-name)

I don't want to complicate things by throwing in the mixers name where it could screw up my sorting, so I just throw it in a parenthesis.

This post has been edited by razer: Nov 23 2005, 11:33