Re: MP3 taggers....

["mark_harrison_uk2" <mph@xxxxxxx>]

Tag and Rename is what I currently use... If it does multiple genre
tagging, then I'm ****ered if I can find out how to do it!

The limitation with ID tags up to 3V2 is that a music file could only
be assigned a single genre. This was a piece of "data structure
design" that didn't hold up well in the real world when people
started playing with LARGE datasets.

The problem that multiple genres fixes is that sometimes I want to
listen to "Rock", sometimes I want to listen to "70s
Rock", sometimes
I want to listen to "ProgRock".

When I come to tag, say, "Lamb Lays Down on Broadway", I can only
assign it to ONE genre. Which means that whichever I give it, it
won't then appear in any of the others.

Regards,

Mark

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Stuart Worrall" <stuart@s...>
wrote:
> Hi Mark
>
> Have you tried tag & rename?
>
> Not really sure what multiple genre tagging is but it does genres
and
> batch processing
>
> http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm
>
> Thanks
>
> Stu Worrall
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mark_harrison_uk2 [mailto:mph@xxxxxxx...]
> Sent: 07 November 2003 18:45
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] MP3 taggers....
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Quick question. Does anyone know of an MP3 tagger that has the
> following characteristics:
>
> - Runs on Windows 2000
>
> - Supports ID3v2 Multiple Genre Tagging
>
> - Allows batch retagging
>
> Basically, Ptarmigan (the XML ID3 tagger) and JReceiver (the Music
> Database) now support ID3v2 multiple genre tags... but while
there's
> software out there that will WRITE MP3 files with multiple genres,
> there's virtually nothing that will allow retagging.
>
> Multiple Genre Tagging is something I've wanted to do for a LONG
time.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark