RE: Re: MP3 taggers....

["Don McAllister" <donmc@xxxxxxx>]

I've switched over to itunes as my mp3 jukebox player. It has dynamic
playlsts that enable you to select multiple criteria as the song selection
ie I use a combination of genre and date if 70's Rock required.

Don

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mark_harrison_uk2 [mailto:mph@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 07 November 2003 20:13
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: MP3 taggers....
>
> 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
>
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