Being that I'm a fan of electronic music, I'm at a bit of a stopping point. Each set has multiple artists but the entire CD is being placed by DJ Tiesto. So, how would I tag it? Use of Composer & Artist tags I suppose but would other programs like Winamp be ok with that? As a side note, I also need to find out if there's been a standard set for soundtracks. Currently, I'm using VA - TITLE as a directory name then adding tagging each song as necessary.
Full Version: Tagging standard for Various Artist albums
I'm currently working on the daunting task of tagging all of my mp3s Being that I'm a fan of electronic music, I'm at a bit of a stopping point. Each set has multiple artists but the entire CD is being placed by DJ Tiesto. So, how would I tag it? Use of Composer & Artist tags I suppose but would other programs like Winamp be ok with that? As a side note, I also need to find out if there's been a standard set for soundtracks. Currently, I'm using VA - TITLE as a directory name then adding tagging each song as necessary.
Being that I'm a fan of electronic music, I'm at a bit of a stopping point. Each set has multiple artists but the entire CD is being placed by DJ Tiesto. So, how would I tag it? Use of Composer & Artist tags I suppose but would other programs like Winamp be ok with that? As a side note, I also need to find out if there's been a standard set for soundtracks. Currently, I'm using VA - TITLE as a directory name then adding tagging each song as necessary.
QUOTE(moeru @ Aug 10 2005, 04:03 PM)
I'm currently working on the daunting task of tagging all of my mp3s Being that I'm a fan of electronic music, I'm at a bit of a stopping point. Each set has multiple artists but the entire CD is being placed by DJ Tiesto. So, how would I tag it? Use of Composer & Artist tags I suppose but would other programs like Winamp be ok with that? As a side note, I also need to find out if there's been a standard set for soundtracks. Currently, I'm using VA - TITLE as a directory name then adding tagging each song as necessary.
Being that I'm a fan of electronic music, I'm at a bit of a stopping point. Each set has multiple artists but the entire CD is being placed by DJ Tiesto. So, how would I tag it? Use of Composer & Artist tags I suppose but would other programs like Winamp be ok with that? As a side note, I also need to find out if there's been a standard set for soundtracks. Currently, I'm using VA - TITLE as a directory name then adding tagging each song as necessary.%album artist%
Basically I would say the artist of the track in the artist tag, the title in the title tag and the album artist (or whatever else indicates that it is a various artists album) in the album art scheme works best and is probably the most compatible.
This should enable proper sorting, playlist display, file renaming in almost all cases.
This should enable proper sorting, playlist display, file renaming in almost all cases.
TITLE == song title
ARTIST == song artist
VARIOUS == 1
ALBUM ARTIST == DJ Tiesto
ARTIST == song artist
VARIOUS == 1
ALBUM ARTIST == DJ Tiesto
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