Classical music tag yourself software#

What «music collection manager» are you using ? So all I saying are, I don’t think the problem come from how musicbrainz tag but from the player, that say, because musicbrainz contain lot of classic disc I’m really wonder how people use it…with which player.

Classical music tag yourself software#

9 or some by Mahler) the list of the performer put in the title make the title so long no software will show, or you need to wait 30 sec. And I didn’t want take the example with a symphony with singer (like the No. 68 «Pastoral», Wilhelm Furtwängler, Wiener Symphonic Orchestra, 1950, Allegro ma troppo» are quite long. Just thinking of another «technical» problem with musicbrainz recommanded way to put metadata are the lenght of the title. But event then I really like to exploit the other tags. Most of the software I encounter are designed for pop/modern music so juste artist and title are enough (ok it’s a little exaggerated… )Ĭurrently I already does half of my CD so I will finish it with my rule of tags. And yes he does a lot of thing, but the point are I didn’t find any «music collection manager», mpd/ncmpc, kido, vlc, audacity who was able to exploit those metadata. Well I already try the Classical extras plugin. The first orders the music once and if the metadata changes, you need to reiterate the process (unless I missed something) while the other has an infrastructure to keep track of changes on the database. The first has a graphical user interface, the other is pretty much command-line only. The other possibility would be to use beets ( ) which is a command-line music tagger that uses musicbrainz data together with the parentwork plugin (that’s what I use so if you need help on it you can ask me). It will crash if you want to feed him 600 GB at once but if you do it in smaller bits it works. For that I see two possibilities: either the Classical extras plugin ( Classical Extras 2.0) on Picard (the official musicbrainz tagger) which I never used but if it works as advertised it should do this. Apparently instead of the (easier) ordering by albumartist/album you are looking at something like composer/work/performer. As far as I know, the easiest way to do something similar to what you do would be to use some music collection manager on one side to order your music and then whatever music player you like to actually play it. I have a collection of classical music of similar size, so I’m familiar with this problem. I think I’m missing a big point somewhere…so my question are, what player you’re using to play your classical music. 6 but with the virtual version and the way musicbrainz put the metadata I find that very difficult to do. For example I’ve got the box of 100 cd with all work of Beethoven, with the physical box I can find quite easily where are the symphony No. This default of this approach IMHO are you need to know where are each piece on each CD. 6 and a symphony from Brahms and select the track of the symphony No. Meaning you browse the list of «Album» who can contain the symphony No. So because the size of musicbrainz database I’m guessing I should be crazy or missing some part of my brain, I can see how you use to play the music.įrom my point of vue the guideline of musicbrainz are focusing on playing by CD (just like old time). 6 very easily then I can choose the conductor etc… With those information, I am able to list all my Symphony No. 68 “Pastoral”» for the 10 versions, the title of the track would be just «Allegro ma non troppo», conductor would be «Wilhelm Furtwängler», Artist would be «Wiener Symphony Orchestra». So currently I manually fill the metadata to my 600Go for file so the album would be the «Symphony No. If I follow or just extract the metadata from musicbrainz, I’m absolutly unable to use mpd/ncmpc/cantata/ncmpcpp/etc… because those application cannot use all the metadata and don’t have the level of flexibility to choose what I want. 68 “Pastoral”» with different conductor, ensemble and year. Why ? Let’s say I have 10 differents version of «Symphony No.

I try to follow the musicbrainz advice for album, title, etc…and find that actual not usable. So now I’m re-input all the metadata to those flac file. Recently I do a resampling the all collection of wav file to 192khz and convert them to flac (only because wav don’t have metadata). To listen them I’m using a server with MPD and event it’s not perfect that ok for me. I have few cd and long time ago I convert them to some wav then aiff file, at that time I’m using iTune to «tag» them.