Comments on: Tagging Classical Music with iTunes http://www.scene24.net/1203.html Alles is relatief Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:38:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Ellie http://www.scene24.net/1203.html/comment-page-1#comment-20504 Ellie Sun, 01 May 2011 13:36:27 +0000 http://www.scene24.net/1203.html#comment-20504 Thank you for your tips. I was importing all my classical music into itunes and bumped into some issues. I was in doubt with swapping the artist and composer. I already had the composer in the artist field and the performer in de composer but was in doubt. But now i will leave it as it is since you do it as well. I am still in doubt with the compilations, at the moment i still have a lot of 'various artists' albums. And i would like to have all together, all the copin together, all the verdi together but it will indeed get a mess if i turn compilation off. So i will leave it as it is for now. For the grouping filed i use the time period. So i have made groups of middle ages, Barogue-late, barogue-early, renaissance, romantic, classisim, avant-garde etc. And in my playlist i made a folder called 'timeline' and in this folder i have added smart playlists based on the groupings tag. It looks very pretty in itunes when i click on show albums artwork and the go through the different playlists in my timeline folder. It is so much easier to find albums in this way. One tip. Use itunify for tagging!. 15 dollars is money very well spend. It is so much faster to work with this program. It has saved me a lot of work. In the beginning i had to get use to the codes but after a while it is so easy. You can easily swap fields, remove spaces, numbers, with a button click you can renumber the tracks of an album etc. More info you can find here: http://www.satsumac.com/iTunify.php And one other tip i use ivolume to set the volume all to a same sort of level, it gives me a so much greater listening experience when the volumes are all on the same level. Every album has a different volume level. More info on ivolume you can find here: http://www.mani.de/ivolume/ Itunify and ivolume are the two programs i use all the time together with itunes. Cheers! Thank you for your tips. I was importing all my classical music into itunes and bumped into some issues. I was in doubt with swapping the artist and composer. I already had the composer in the artist field and the performer in de composer but was in doubt. But now i will leave it as it is since you do it as well.

I am still in doubt with the compilations, at the moment i still have a lot of ‘various artists’ albums. And i would like to have all together, all the copin together, all the verdi together but it will indeed get a mess if i turn compilation off. So i will leave it as it is for now.

For the grouping filed i use the time period. So i have made groups of middle ages, Barogue-late, barogue-early, renaissance, romantic, classisim, avant-garde etc. And in my playlist i made a folder called ‘timeline’ and in this folder i have added smart playlists based on the groupings tag. It looks very pretty in itunes when i click on show albums artwork and the go through the different playlists in my timeline folder. It is so much easier to find albums in this way.

One tip. Use itunify for tagging!. 15 dollars is money very well spend. It is so much faster to work with this program. It has saved me a lot of work. In the beginning i had to get use to the codes but after a while it is so easy. You can easily swap fields, remove spaces, numbers, with a button click you can renumber the tracks of an album etc.
More info you can find here: http://www.satsumac.com/iTunify.php

And one other tip i use ivolume to set the volume all to a same sort of level, it gives me a so much greater listening experience when the volumes are all on the same level. Every album has a different volume level. More info on ivolume you can find here: http://www.mani.de/ivolume/

Itunify and ivolume are the two programs i use all the time together with itunes.

Cheers!

]]> By: Kim http://www.scene24.net/1203.html/comment-page-1#comment-20190 Kim Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:00:11 +0000 http://www.scene24.net/1203.html#comment-20190 What I usually do is just the surname for artist, the work under the album and movement under the song. If usually just ignore the performer and put this informaion under the comments. If there is a radical difference between different versions of the same piece I normally put the orchestra or performer in brackets AFTER the song, so it still lines up correctly with the movements. I am unsure when to start putting the first name of the composer in. For example, I wrote Anderson for Leroy Anderson, but what about John Williams? Where is the cut off point? What I usually do is just the surname for artist, the work under the album and movement under the song. If usually just ignore the performer and put this informaion under the comments. If there is a radical difference between different versions of the same piece I normally put the orchestra or performer in brackets AFTER the song, so it still lines up correctly with the movements.
I am unsure when to start putting the first name of the composer in. For example, I wrote Anderson for Leroy Anderson, but what about John Williams? Where is the cut off point?

]]> By: David Lyle http://www.scene24.net/1203.html/comment-page-1#comment-20189 David Lyle Fri, 01 Oct 2010 02:49:58 +0000 http://www.scene24.net/1203.html#comment-20189 Thank you for this really valuable article. I'm putting it to use systematically with my own collection of some 500 CD's. I do have one suggestion to remove a confusing error in your name tag data. Surname means literally "over" name, i.e. "Last Name" or "Family Name" in common American parlance. A surname is not a given or first name. So your tag data above should read: [Surname,][Given name]. Thanks again for the terrific. Thank you for this really valuable article. I’m putting it to use systematically with my own collection of some 500 CD’s. I do have one suggestion to remove a confusing error in your name tag data. Surname means literally “over” name, i.e. “Last Name” or “Family Name” in common American parlance. A surname is not a given or first name. So your tag data above should read: [Surname,][Given name]. Thanks again for the terrific.

]]> By: Steve http://www.scene24.net/1203.html/comment-page-1#comment-20186 Steve Sun, 12 Sep 2010 05:16:13 +0000 http://www.scene24.net/1203.html#comment-20186 This is generally quite helpful. However, I would never switch the artist and composer fields. It offends some deep sensibility within me. Now that one can browse by composer on an iPod, I cannot see why one would even consider switching. This is generally quite helpful. However, I would never switch the artist and composer fields. It offends some deep sensibility within me. Now that one can browse by composer on an iPod, I cannot see why one would even consider switching.

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