Tagging

Adding metadata to audio files is called tagging.

Software

• Windows
  • Mp3tag - a great program for managing your music files' tags
  • Foobar as tagger[1]
  • PicardQt tagger(with picard-tangoinfo plugin)
• Linux
  • GUI:
    • Puddletag [2] - which tries to be like Mp3tag (more or less)
    • PicardQt tagger(with picard-tangoinfo plugin)
    • KID3tag [3]
    • Easytag [4]
    • Ex Falso [5]
  • CLI
    • audiotag
    • eyed3tag
    • (and many more)

Tag data sources

• tango.info
  • tagging
  • contributing tag data

Tag management

• tag remapping

Tagging standard

• track metadata standard
• tagging considerations

Tagging process using tango.info source

• solo tagging
• mass tagging
  • mass tagging with foobar2000
  • mass tagging with mp3tag
    • mass tagging format string
  • tango.info tagger

From talk

Chrisjjj 13:50, 23 October 2007 (CEST) Issue: unrecognised TIN is not faulted. E.g. 00000000000001

Chrisjjj 13:50, 23 October 2007 (CEST) Issue: result with blank genre gives not found:Array ( ) NO GENRE:Array ( [0] => 00743219561329 ) between output rules e.g. https://tango.info/tools/tagging.php?tins=00743219561220&sepa=%3B

2007-07-13 Carlos Vallejos in reply to a mail by Tobias Conradi

In my experience, as generally all programs work on the database structure, we should keep supplementary information on a track as condensed as possible, in order to allow all infos to fit into the grid space (that seems to be never enough!) for example;

• Canaro ins for Canaro instrumental
• Canaro-Falcon for Canaro sings Ada Falcon
• etc

It exist the case of famous interpreters as:

• Tita Merello (con Francisco Canaro)
• Carlos Gardel (con Francisco Canaro)
• Edmundo Rivero (con Anibal Troilo)
• Francisco Fiorentino, con su orquesta
• Enrique Corsini con su orquesta
• Alberto Castillo (con Emilio Balcarce)

that are usually accompained by some big orchestras. We should decide if we keep the criteria of the sequence

ORCHESTRA'DIRECTOS SECOND NAME, - , 1st. SINGER'S SECOND NAME

Chrisjjj 18:14, 21 October 2007 (CEST) I strongly disagree. Track tags should contain the full information, e.g. Francisco Canaro & Ada Falcon. And the Artist field should contain only artists and not the content description Instrumental.

album - subtitles

https://tango.info/08427328130844 - Chrisjjj

Well, I would say this date is an album sub-title. If t.i added support for album sub-titles, displaying them as distinct from titles, for tagging it could give the option of putting it into a sub-field e.g. Album = <albumtitle> | <albumsubtitle1>