Music Genre-tagging web-site?

2010-01-22 05:50:45

#1

Jenspm: penis; +1,716|6944|St. Andrews / Oslo

Right, It's time to start the major task of tagging all my music correctly. It seems like most (modern) music goes under several genres, and I'd like to fix all my music to include several genre tags, as well as some of my own.

Thing is, I am no genre expert, and this genre business is getting more and more complicated. Anyone know of a site that lists correct genre tags for albums?

last.fm is user-based and often wrong..

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2010-01-22 05:59:42

#2

liquidat0r: wtf.; +2,223|6839|UK

The trouble is, there's a difference between the ID3 tag "genre" and "genre tags" used on websites such as last.fm.

I guess you need some form of script to fetch the most popular last.fm tag of an album and set it as the genre field on the music files.

You'd have to exclude tags such as "electronic", "british", and "female.vocalists".

Could also probably fetch the genres from places like Discogs or MusicBrainz.

... I'm betting there's a script out there somewhere.

2010-01-22 06:04:36

#3

liquidat0r: wtf.; +2,223|6839|UK

In fact MusicBrainz seems to have it's own MP3 tagging software. (is your collection in MP3 or lossless?)

http://musicbrainz.org/
http://www.magic-tagger.com/eng/index.php

Your MP3 files are named incorrectly or in different ways? You don't want to listen to "Track01" files any more? Your music collection is messed? The correct release year of some files is missing? You've come to the right place.

Magic MP3 Tagger was specially designed to automatically identify and sort your music collection, which is a different approach than other tagging applications use. Magic MP3 Tagger does all the work for you by using a high sophisticated music identification algorithm!

Magic MP3 Tagger comes with a high-quality built-in music database. This database stores the albums and songs of the 5000 most known bands and artists on earth, which possibly is the bulk of your music collection. This has three big advantages: speed, speed and speed.

2010-01-22 06:06:38

#4

Jenspm: penis; +1,716|6944|St. Andrews / Oslo

I have yet to find a program/script that will auto-tag multiple genres.. Which is why I have decided to do it manually.

If something like that exists though, brilliant.

And I'm not sure tags such as "electronic", "british", and "female.vocalists" would be a bad thing? Only gives me more ways to sort my music.. I assume ID3 doesn't have a general "tag" string?

2010-01-22 06:09:42

#5

liquidat0r: wtf.; +2,223|6839|UK

Jenspm wrote:
And I'm not sure tags such as "electronic", "british", and "female.vocalists" would be a bad thing? Only gives me more ways to sort my music.. I assume ID3 doesn't have a general "tag" string?

That was my point, the ID3 genre tag is just a text field. So while you could set it as "electronic, dubstep, grime", it is really just designed for one word - so in that example you'd probably choose "dubstep".

Also, I wouldn't say that the user generated tags on last.fm are often wrong. Especially with the more popular artists, with so many people contributing to them they end up being correct.

2010-01-22 06:11:20

#6

Jenspm: penis; +1,716|6944|St. Andrews / Oslo

but ID3v2 (or whatever the new one is called) supports multiple genres for single songs. So you could tag a song as "electronic, dubstep, grime", and it'll show up in all three filters.

2010-01-22 06:16:48

#7

liquidat0r: wtf.; +2,223|6839|UK

When I was saying ID3 I meant ID3v2 (as it is the standard, ID3v1 is obsolete).

Jenspm wrote:
So you could tag a song as "electronic, dubstep, grime", and it'll show up in all three filters.

I suppose that's more of a media player feature.

2010-01-22 06:22:36

#8

Jenspm: penis; +1,716|6944|St. Andrews / Oslo

Well it doen't work in ID3v1, so it's kind of a tag feature as well...

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