I am in the very same OCD boat as you (and Smeltington). Can't help but wonder how some of these things end up happening. Speaking of which, obviously the actual cover art should probably supersede whatever data the digital music stores/services have, but it's strange to me that there are situations like where JNH's soundtrack to Dinosaur clearly says "An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack" on the cover art, and yet iTunes has it listed as "Original Soundtrack." Likewise there are some occasions where an album will be listed as "Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" on the cover, and yet the digital music services will have it listed as "Music from the Motion Picture" (or vice versa). Here's another question how do you title your soundtrack albums? Is ROTS in your library just "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith," or is it "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)"? "John Williams / William Ross (adapted by)". Then under the composer info, maybe specify a bit more, e.g. If William Ross is officially listed as the artist, I might take that into consideration and list the artist as "John Williams / William Ross". Don't use iTunes on PC, and for iPhone it's all shuffled anyway. It's all just what FreeDB, Presto or uploader says it is. MP3Tag auto-numbers everything according to album title, which I never change unless album has multiple disc number. Traditional music: one folder per artist, if artist is unclear, first artist in metadata gets folder. Modern msuic: one folder per artist, only live stuff goes into another one Religious hymns and carols: one folder per choir (It sounds insane to some people, but since works tend to have different names in classical music because fuck logic, it's actually the easiest.) Then that became too much work and I decided that collecting music was much more fun than managing it, so now I have a very simple system:įilm scores: folders by artist, one folder per score and one folder for re-recordings (so JW's is huge)Ĭlassical music: One folder per composer and one folder per conductor. I had a brief phase where I would manually correct everything, especially in classical music since that was a real mess. For instance, wouldn't this mean that virtually every track of HP2 should list "William Ross" as the Artist at the track level, and "William Ross & John Williams" (or potentially even just "John Williams") as the Composer? It seems like most places list Williams as the Artist for all the tracks on that OST, but if Ross was the one who adapted and conducted them, then by the logic of the Kenobi credits, shouldn't it be Ross instead? Now here's the thing: if I were to stick with this choice for the metadata of this track, then this logically also forces me to reevaluate how I tag Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Assuming that Williams himself didn't write the actual end credits music, it would seem that the reason he is listed as the sole Composer for that particular track (rather than "William Ross & John Williams" as in most of the other tracks Ross conducted), is because the entire track is just his theme. Last but not least, an example that is relevant to all of us here at this particular site: in the recent Obi-Wan Kenobi soundtrack, the digital music sellers and streaming services list "William Ross" as the Artist of the "End Credit" track, while "John Williams" is listed as the Composer. So, how do you deal with your metadata? Do you only include information if it is on the booklet/album cover, or do you include missing data and fix incorrect data? Do you treat classical music different from other genres, and if so, how do you handle tagging the composer and various performers? At the end of the day I wish I could just pick one method and stick with it, but as someone who consumes a lot of classical music (a whole other beast than more mainstream genres), it's tough to find something that works. Over the years I've gone from obsessively trying to make all my albums match exactly what was in the iTunes Store (mistakes included) like some sort of ultra-Apple-fanboy-to getting fed up with the all the inconsistencies and then redoing everything, this time by following the Apple/Music iTunes Style Guide myself-to searching for other alternative ways of dealing with metadata like MusicBrainz, etc. I have it pretty bad when it comes to managing my metadata.
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