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Tips for tagging classical rips?

I've already ripped my collection of blues/rock/alt CDs to a hard drive. I used EAC and ripped the early files into an artist/album/track.WAV format. Later, I shifted to artist/album/trkno_track.WAV format, and wished I had started that way.

I'm now about to embark on ripping my classical music and wondering if anyone can help me avoid any bonehead errors. How have you been tagging/organizing? Since you only get one Artist field, presumably that gets used for the composer... Or, are you using that for performer? Any hints from anyone who has gone this route? What worked, what didn't?
edesilva
edesilva OP
768 posts
 
Thanks for the comments. I guess I didn't even realize there is a separate "composer" field. Is that standard for tagged audio files, or is that an iTunes specific implementation? Anyone know?
brb9
33 posts
 
I just read that Olive's new 'symphony' player is supposed to have software (called 'Playlist') geared toward cataloging classical. (www.olive.us)

It would be interesting to hear from anyone who has seen it in action . . .
slothman
311 posts
 
You may want to look at a program call Tag & Rename. I use it exclusively and it is Classical-friendly:

http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm

You can set fields as you wish and do batch editing as well. Little bit of a learning curve but an indespensible utility IMHO. Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with the software creator whatsoever.
hamburg
69 posts
 
Is there a way to do it? If so how?
edesilva OP
768 posts
 
Er, Hamburg... Is there a way to do *what*?

If you are asking whether its possible to tag classical files, it depends on the format the file is in... Some formats (e.g., WAV) have no tags. Others have standardized tags, but the tag definitions vary.
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