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[shadesofmauve]

I'm finally getting around to a just-for-me project I've been craving for awhile -- losslessly backing up every CD I have on Gonzales' second hard drive. Erik and my folks' bought me PC speakers for christmas, so having good quality audio on the machine now serves some purpose aside from fueling my organization obsession.

Of course, the art-like multi-input super-tag file format I really crave for music doesn't appear to exist yet (or perhaps it's the player that's at fault, since in theory it could treat the contents of one tag as a list rather than string?), but current tech will have to do.

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[westrider.livejournal.com]

Of course, the art-like multi-input super-tag file format I really crave for music doesn't appear to exist yet...

I know. This is one of my few complaints about organizing my Music on my computer. I really want to be able to enter multiple tags per category. Collaborations, Songs that are on more than one album, fusion pieces that could easily be filed under multiple categories, the list goes on.

As far as I can tell, the problem is with the Players, not the File formats.

[shadesofmauve]

Exactly! I'd like to be able to list all applicable genres for fusion songs, every artist on a given track, the instruments used, the tunes that make up a medley, the area the artist comes from...

with most right now, it seems that if I sort by artist, say "John Doyle", I see his albums, but I DON'T see the stuff he did with Liz Carroll -- they're both in the name, but "Liz Carroll and John Doyle" is read as a separate thing.

[shadesofmauve]

By the way, I'm experimenting with Foobar2000 (bad name, I know!), and the search functionality appears to be fairly robust -- it allows for very particular search strings, which should mean that you can set up a search that approximates what you and I both want. I'll play a bit more and let you know -- I don't really have enough library yet to do a real test.