Minor Composers - some problems I am struggling with!

[DavidHB]

(20-10-2017 09:06)pgbj Wrote:  Though I still have a lot of work to do to get Composition names consistent for the same work - but that's my new best mate mp3tag's job....

There is one trick in MP3Tag which I have not seen as widely documented as it should be. Let's say that you have a particular work that is tagged to your satisfaction. You then acquire another recording of the same work, for which you want to use, say, the same Title and Composition tag values as on the first album.

Open the first album in MP3Tag. Then use the 'Add Directory' icon to add the new album to the grid. Select the first pair of files which you want to have the same Title. Click the drop-down arrow at the right hand end of the Title input box, and you will see a list of the Title values used in the current selection, plus <keep> (= leave as it is) and <blank> (= clear the text). Select the value you want to use, and it will be applied to both selected tracks. Click the Save Icon. (Note that if you enable the setting Options>Tags>Save tags when using arrow-keys/single mouse click, your changes are saved whenever you move from one file to another; this has saved me a lot of retyping!)

When it comes to the Composition value, you need to select all the relevant tracks on the new album, but only need to select one track on the first (source) album. Use the same procedure to apply the source value to the tracks on the new album.

This procedure greatly reduces the amount of manual editing required to ensure consistency, and is also much less error-prone. There are occasions (with Composer naming for example) when it can be used with dozens or even hundreds of files at once.

(20-10-2017 09:06)pgbj Wrote:  The great thing is that minimserver gives us all the chance to customise our music collection to fit the way we browse and listen to our music.

Exactly. I feel that I was very lucky to stumble across it, four years ago now.

David