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Genre tags are a messy business

Saturday, June 24, 2006
I think I may have decided to start adopting parts of the genre labeling system that's in use at discogs.com. I say this half-heartedly because I don't relish the idea of re-tagging all 14,000+ songs in the library and I'm not sure it would be an improvement. But at the same time, I must acknowledge that my existing scheme is arbitrary and borderline fubar. Part of the ...

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On Classical Music Tagging (ID3 tags) for iTunes and iPod

Tuesday, May 30, 2006
When it comes to organizing for iTunes and iPod, classical music is an entirely different beast. Why tie yourself to an inefficient and illogical "album" model when classical works were never meant to be treated that way? iTunes allows you to appreciate individual works as they were conceived and executed: as individual, stand-alone works. :: Example of my tagging structure (click to see full size). I recently ran across ...

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