Jim Lesurf said:
In article , Richard
Robinson wrote:
Far worse is, I have several dozen gigabytes of home-made pocket-recorder
stuff going back to the early 80s, which would be far more useful if I
hadn't always been too intimidated to even start labelling them. kid3 is
much the most useful tag-manager I know of, if you can run KDE progs. I
particularly like the ability to import/export between tags and
filenames; belt and braces.

I did look at metadata tags ages ago and decided it was designed for pop,
rock, etc. Not really ideal for classical music. Again, to me it was
simpler to just give things informative file names and locations in
directory trees in a convenient arrangement that makes sense to me.

I agree with the impression that they're a bit lowest-common-denominator.
Also, the way that they're stored in the audio file is not the best of
ideas, from the POV of keeping backups, it'd be more convenient if a monster
session of proper labelling only needed to back up the metadata, instead of
marking all the audio data as changed.

I'm only starting to play with music-payers seriously. But Amarok, for
instance, uses them in ways that'd have me wasting hours writing scripts
for, if the info was only in the filenames. Random playlists from particular
combinations of field values, for instance.

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Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

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