If you use a portable mp3 player then ID3 tags are a
necessity as a lot/most/all of them use tags and not
filenames on their display when playing and for sorting
too.
Your filenames are long because of the amount of meta-data
you put in them, this is a problem with some players
(including one of mine) when browsing files instead of
titles as they only show the first certain number of
characters, the rest being truncated, so I limit the size
of my filenames to something like
JAM - s01e14 Keeping Wicket
I use the following ID3v2 tags
Title - s01e14 Keeping Wicket
Album - Just a Minute - s01
Artist - NIck Parsons (maybe, not fully committed yet)
Album artist - ditto
Year - Year
Comments - Date, subjects, contestants
Track - Episode Number
Genre - Radio Comedy
Image - some appropriate image such as CD cover or Nick or
the cast or 'whatever' as my iPod displays this while
playing the file
I use Mp3tag to edit these as it's free, easy to use,
fast, has many shortcuts, can do batch editing and much,
much more
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
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Cheers
Don __o
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sent from my iPod Touch
On 17 Feb 2012, at 22:04, "George" <george@...>
wrote:
> I am having a real tidy-up session, and I thought I
would ask how people have their files organised.
>
> Here's the ones I'm wondering about, and the way I
have it
>
> Name of the file:
> "JAM - 1968-03-22 (014) (s01e14) Keeping Wicket"
>
> Title - The first subject?
> Artist - Just a Minute? (or BBC?)
> Contributing Artist - Just a Minute? (or The panel
members?)
> Comments - The subjects?
> Original Artists?
> Composer
> Conductor - Nick Parsons / chairman? (I don't do this
one)
> Track - Episode Number
> Disc - Series Number
>
> Anyone else use things?
> Name differently?
> etc, etc
>
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