Tag Archive for 'mp3'

New Mandragora MP3s!

Published by dekay on September 20, 2005 in tango. 0 Comments

Mandragora Tango Orchestra just released some new free tango mp3s.

iTunes tagging

Published by dekay on September 4, 2005 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

Wikipedia may help with getting your music collection organized. Although I still think the “Genre” Tag in MP3s is useless in its current incarnation. What use makes it when you can browse music by genre but then try to classify not in broad genres but in much detail? So my solution is to use the general broad genre and then fine tune by using the” grouping” tag.

Software Request: mp3-Tagger à la del.icio.us

Published by dekay on June 11, 2005 in lazyweb and technology. 0 Comments

As I have written previously I would love to have some way of tagging functionality in iTunes.

Right now my setting looks a bit like this:

  • I use the “Grouping” field for my tags. The tags I am currently using are things like “slow fox” or “rumba” as I am currently cataloging my collection of ballroom dance music. But I will be using tags like “electro” or “typical latino” or whatever to actually describe the styles of the songs - just to get much better and faster search functionality when I really need to find some music that is similar, e.g. when I am preparing music to play at a dancesport competition.
  • There are some cool apple scripts out that allow adding and deleting single tags from the fields “grouping” or “comments”. The scripts I use are really useful, but far from really what I want (see below). Nevertheless - they are pretty close in functionality and the only thing that is out there (yet.)

What I really would like:

  • A posting interface like the experimental posting popup from del.icio.us. The features I want are:
    • simple tag creation. just type the tag into some form field and it is created
    • re-use of old tags. show a list of tags that I have used before, and make them clickable!
    • make the selected tags stand out from the list so I can de-select them again!
  • Some additional features for the interface:
    • Give me the choice to group tags. e.g. “Dance” (would group Waltz, Cha-cha, Salsa). This way I can easily select tags that are sorted in categories.
    • Give me the choice to rename tags easily.
  • Some other stuff I would love to do with these tags:
    • playlist creation based on tags - easy, fast and useful - a “there is no step 3″-approach.
    • find similarities based on tags, make music recommendations, hey, make shuffle take into account music similarity and/or diversity! (How about a setting that goes like: shuffle my music, make 5 songs similar then completely switch to a different style and do another 5 songs!)

Tags in iTunes - anyone?

Published by dekay on February 4, 2005 in links. 7 Comments

What I would truly love is to have some kind of tag system in iTunes. The classification “genre” doesn’t just make it anymore. When you have classical music you can have all sorts of styles, moods and whatever. I do need some other way to find the music i want, create playlists automatically with a certain set of style, mood and genre. Right now my music is classified by genre like this: “Electronic - Latin”, which makes this better - but then this clutters up the interface, the list of genres at my iPod etc. Tagging or “keywords” as it is called in iPhoto would be it. Hey, one could even link up tags in iPhoto and iTunes in order to find the best music for a slideshow or - the other way round - find good pictures for iTunes visualizer! Maybe the whole thing with Flickr-integration? I wish there was some way to ping apple about this - but since I am not really fond of their feature request system (no trackback and usually no feedback) this one goes out to lazyweb.

[update 2005-05-15] A great how-to on tagging in iTunes can be found here

[update 2006-01-28] check out Applescripts for tagging iTunes songs via Quicksilver. Very cool.