![]() I only mark an album as a Compilation now if the most appropriate Album Artist is “Various Artists”. ![]() The Album Artist field, by the way, allows you to have variant Artist names on a single album without labeling it a Compilation. That’s probably why you find Compilations more frequently affected-it’s sometimes tough to decide what the best Album Artist for a particular Compilation is, and many people overlook this field when ripping their own tracks. If the contents of that field differ between tracks on a single album, Music will mis-sort them in any of a variety of odd ways. I have, through trial and error, figured out that a lot of the apparent inconsistencies come from the Album Artist field. Their seems to be a lot of inconsistencies or complexities in the way that Music organizes its tracks and little to no information as to how Music makes the choices it makes. I also use, which is quite comprehensive but sometimes hard to navigate. I usually start at, because they have a good index of classical recordings by composer and work, not just by recording. I’ve had to replace most of the album art in my (very large) collection. But the system is making its best guess among a raft of bad information. It’s easy for us to look at the art the computer selected and say, “That’s not the right image,” when we’re sitting there with the album cover right in front of us. There’s no standard and there’s no consistency. The artwork may look like the album title should be something like “Aristotle Hoosegow Conducts Bruno Jehosephat Symphonies” while the actual catalog title could be “Jehosephat: Symphonies 1–3, Latveria National Orchestra”. How many different compilations do you think exist called Best of the Big Bands, for example, many of which contain some of the same tracks?Ĭlassical is especially tough because not only is there no standard for how album titles are formatted, but it’s often virtually impossible to tell what a classical album’s official catalog title actually is from the cover. But the categories you cited as usually being wrong (classic jazz, classical, and international) are all fraught with metadata complexities and confusions, especially with album titles. It’s not bad with popular music (such as your Sade album), because the artist, track, and album names for those are generally straightforward and clear. The problem is that there are no standards for how metadata is formatted in the various catalogs and databases that store this information. It can’t use audio fingerprinting alone, if it does at all, because that can’t distinguish between different releases of the same recording (for an obvious example, it can’t tell any difference between the Eagles’ “Hotel California” on the Hotel California album and the Greatest Hits Volume 2 album, because they’re the exact same recording). ![]() When finding album art, the system relies mostly on metadata. This is a perennial problem, also dating back well into iTunes’ history. It did get my Sade album cover right though. Gets it wrong with classic jazz, classical music, international music, etc. Purchase costs $34.95.Also, Music almost never grabs the correct album cover. There are versions for Mac and Windows and a free trial. Prepare to spend several hours in front of your computer when you fire it up – I'm doing my cleanup across several sessions. “14 – Minor Swing”)? beaTunes will find these and offer to set the actual track number ID3 tag and trim the title. Tired of song titles that start with track numbers (i.e. You can approve or reject each suggested change. This sort of thing is all too common and creates havoc when trying to sort your music as you try to pick out the next song.īeaTunes will find these (and scores of other similar sorts of inconsistencies) and list them all out. Maybe across your Benny Goodman collection you have a few songs in as being by The Benny Goodman Sextet and some by Benny Goodman Sextet. What beaTunes is really good at is looking through your library and finding tagging inconsistencies. BeaTunes promotes itself primarily as a tool for BPM analysis and automated playlist generation, but, for a swing DJ, the real gold lies in its other analysis features.
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