Yes MB, I hope you are all doing well.
Just been thinking about the best way to approach tagging my vast library of audio files recorded at particular live venues, where event organisers and performing artists vary greatly, yet there is a need to see a complete index of available audio/video from that search result.
I think the radio show format is currently the nearest system, but stuff recorded at live events shouldn’t be tagged as Broadcast if they are not, but I wondered what your thoughts are?
At the moment, I am not contributing to the database manually, but instead aiming to get to the point where I can submit all the tags from my library to your database and they automatically import into the correct fields with no manual fixing necessary, as that would render all my years of work collecting this media so far wasted. I’m not willing to start from scratch, which is currently what ‘Adding Cluster As Release’ currently seems to require. Basically, I’m trying to reverse engineer whatever script you might be able to provide in advance of submitting my Fingerprints and Tags.
If you have half a terabyte of MP3s recorded at a venue like for instance The Sanctuary, Denbigh Leisure Centre, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK (1991-2004) and are gradually amassing recordings from every weekend staged at this historic rave venue, but want your MP3 collection to give credit to each “label” ie. event organiser, but also different rave promoters who host different arenas, in the primary tags which display on people’s media players ideally, what would be the best mapping for these details so that if somebody has a totally untagged MP3 from that event or “show”, Picard can help them tag it up but also move the file into a folder structure which makes most sense.
Currently, my collection is just moving all my live raves and club nights into Various Artists folder, which I was willing to live with, but I’m still wondering if there’s not a way to create a special script for these circumstances where there are multiple performances from various artists on one date, but they might be better in one folder as each set is more of a chapter in an entire event than a stand-alone performance. Also when it comes to sound-system groups, the collective which would fall within the Album tag might be considered the artist if more people consider the name of the crew as their brand than the individuals holding the fort during that hour, or whatever.
Basically, I’m just trying to stick to one format so that I can get more done when my brain is on auto-pilot, but want all criteria taking into consideration with how folder structure and ID3 tags display.
Let me know if any of you have any thoughts or solutions.
I have a huge number of cassette rips from venues where it’s usually all one label, but not necessarily, and it would be awesome to be able to create an index for venues such as this to indicate when guest promoters were visiting and gradually turn my huge folder dumps into comprehensive timelines like a diary. Imagine a Hacienda, Manchester release group series, or a Palomas, Wolverhampton or Eclipse/Edge, Coventry index in the way you currently have BBC Essential Mix listed, and maybe you’ll see what I’m getting at.
I’m a historian as well as a geek.
