Tagging classical music

[Budgie]

(16-03-2017 16:39)simoncn Wrote:  

(16-03-2017 15:52)Budgie Wrote:  Hi Simon,
I see in 2 above you suggest a separate Artist tag for each artist. I would like to try this rather than a comma separated list as in the BubbleDS display most of the information is chopped off. In fact there may be an issue with the size of certain fields in BubbleDS when I am entering all the artists for a quintet, (now I understand why I need a tablet).

If I am to try your proposal I assume I use the appropriate delimiter for the tag editor I am using. I seem to have this working now for EasyTAG where delimiter is "space-space" so in genre I have eg. Opera - Baroque so a disk appears in both genres if I search on them. I note that in the information shown when tapping the now playing screen this shows as "Opera, Baroque" which is interesting.

By default, MinimServer combines multiple values for the same tag using commas to separate the values and sends the combined string to the control point for display in album and track information. The advantage of tagging artists separately is that you get a separate index entry for each artist.

Hi Simon, thanks for the reply. Having reached the same conclusions the hard way and having finally sorted out the delimiter for my tagging software, I am now using your style (except for conductor) for classical works and am delighted. You have also explained the comma which appears in the list on BubbleDS. There is still the question of visibility when there are several artisit and I find the easiest way to see the data is to tap the now playing screen to see the lot. To have them scroll would be neat but may not be worth the effort.

I also have been trying to get the pdf booklet view working. At present I have put the pdf in the same directory as the track files and given it the same album name as the jpg file. It appears this is not enough but I do not understand the detailed instruction on where to put the pdf file as it refers to a BubbleDS directory. Where would that be other than on my control point? Sorry to be so dense.

Thanks again for your brilliant software.
Budge
Meanwhile all is well and I only have 5 or 6 hundred discs to retag. Will need to have a look at Paul's software now!