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Topic: ID3 Tags

Message 1 / 8
GeorgeFeb 17, 2012
 

 
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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Topic: Re: ID3 Tags

Message 2 / 8
Don JudgeFeb 17, 2012
 

 
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/

--
Cheers

Don __o
\ <,
.....O/ O

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
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

 
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Topic: Re: ID3 Tags

Message 3 / 8
PaulFeb 17, 2012
 

 
This is the way I tag the files I upload for the group:

Title: 2012-02-06 775 - When I Wear A Top Hat
Artist: BBC Radio 4
Album: Just a Minute
Year: 2012
Track: 01
Genre: Panel Game
Comment: Paul Merton, Ross Noble, Jenny Eclair and Gyles Brandreth help
Nicholas Parsons celebrate 45 years of the show. They are asked to talk on
subjects from the original 1967 series.

Mostly it's what comes down through RadioDownloader with just the Title,Year
and Genre tags altered by me.

I only add an image once the series has finished but that's mainly just for
my benefit as I never was really sure about what others wanted in the Tags.

Paul

----- Original Message -----
From: "George" <george@...>
To: <just-a-minute@...>
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 10:04 PM
Subject: [just-a-minute] ID3 Tags


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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Yahoo! Groups Links

 
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Topic: Re: ID3 Tags

Message 4 / 8
DavidFeb 18, 2012
 

 
My experience is a little different to this. I don't like to use tags so on my mp3 player I usually choose folder or directory view. I have a Philips GoVibe, an iRiver and a Samsung Yepp. They all give me the option to use the file names and not use the tags.

However, if folks want to do some mp3 tag editing they may find this page helpful:

http://www.portablefreeware.com/?sc=44

I have used the Mp3tag program and found it easy to use.

By the way I download the wma files from the BBC listen again function (I live outside of the UK) and the files already come with tags (Title and Artist).

Love, David

--- In just-a-minute@..., Don Judge <don@...> wrote:
>
> 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/
>
> --
> Cheers
>
> Don __o
> \ <,
> .....O/ O
>
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
>

 
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Topic: Re: ID3 Tags

Message 5 / 8
Espen KrømkeFeb 18, 2012
 

 
I tag them almost exactly like you Don, only difference is I use date in title instead of episode cause it looks better on the JAMmer stream info, and "artist" is either "Just A Minute" or prefereable the panellists.

Filename syntax I use is "JAM (date) - (title).mp3".

On 18. feb. 2012 00:04, Don Judge wrote:  

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/

--
Cheers

Don __o
\ <,
.....O/ O

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
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

 
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Topic: Re: ID3 Tags

Message 6 / 8
nylon netFeb 19, 2012
 

 

Hi all.  Sorry in advance for teaching grandmothers how to suck eggs...

Keep in mind that when creating a filename, don't use the # symbol for "episode number" because it has special meaning (an anchor) in a URL and will confuse browsers no end if you post the filename online in a link.
Also, don't use spaces in filenames. That's always bad.

My filenaming scheme is like
JAM-2009-08-10@719(s55e03)=My_Idea_of_Bliss

-----Original Message-----
From: don@...
Sent: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:04:33 +0000
To: just-a-minute@...
Subject: Re: [just-a-minute] ID3 Tags

 

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/

--
Cheers

Don __o
\ <,
.....O/ O

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
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

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Topic: Re: ID3 Tags

Message 7 / 8
Don JudgeFeb 19, 2012
 

 
Remembering to <SNIP> as this post's getting a bit long now and Dean has to approve long ones...

OK seeing what others do has convinced me to adopt the following, even if it means a tad more effort esp for other panel games which are not so well documented as JAM

Artist - Contestants
Album artist - Chairperson

Now I see why you use = and @ in your file names Mark.

Agreed <SPACE> characters are bad in file names esp in Unix, Linux environments. Sad to say I'm a Windows user these days, I will return one day... Anyway, enough techie stuff.

--
Cheers

Don __o
\ <,
.....O/ O

sent from my iPod Touch

On 19 Feb 2012, at 10:00, nylon net <nylon@...> wrote:

> Hi all. Sorry in advance for teaching grandmothers how to suck eggs...
>
<SNIP>

 
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Topic: Re: ID3 Tags

Message 8 / 8
Espen KrømkeFeb 19, 2012
 

 
Dude, problems with space in file name is *so* oldschool. It used to be like that, true, but is not anymore.
I'm a Linux user since late 90s. :)

Agreed <SPACE> characters are bad in file names esp in Unix, Linux environments. Sad to say I'm a Windows user these days, I will return one day... Anyway, enough techie stuff.