Filename length: I never encountered this problem (or didn't notice it
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If you have an example, mail it to
support@musichi.eu
I believe that this also depends on the directory structure of the computer you're using. My music is in a root folder of the NAS (G:/music), and then there is a sub-folder structure pursuant to the genre, composer name etc. (e.g. G:/music/classical/beethoven/piano). If then the file name is rather long (e.g. "Variations on a theme of Diabelli op. 120 "Diabelli Variations" - Variation 30 ...) the entire file name including the directory structure (path) may exceed 255 characters. As this depends on how you organise your folder structure, this is not something dependent on MusiCHI. However, it would be useful if MusiCHI at least indicated when it cannot load one of the files into the tagger due to excessive character lenght of the entire path. That would then prompt the user to shorten the file name or re-think the directory structure, without leaving some files untagged without being aware of it.
Conductor tag: you can edit tags like these by defining custom tags
http://thewelltemperedcomputer.com/SW/Players/CHI/CHI_CustomTags.htm
I will try this out. I assume that this also works with tags that are already existing (as a lot of my ripped files already have the conductor tag for example) and that I can the uniformise all these tags by using the custom tag option. Under
this link from the MinimServer website under "Tag Mappings" there's a list of available FLAC/Vorbis tags, the conductor tag among them. I assume that in order to be able to edit any of these under MusiCHI I would have to define those as custom tags that are not available in the "edit" menu?
There are a lot of performers in the database but you can use this option only with the album artist/performer tag.
Ah ok, which is one I do not use as I am only using the "artist" tag for this purpose. It would be good I think if this option was also available to use with the "artist" tag.
I do think the auto complete a nice option.
Années de Pèlerinage. I know Schubert's Winterreise is in the database both as the Winterreise and as individual songs.
Not to clutterup the compositions, I prefer the have Winterreise as composition and the individual songs I put in my custom "movement" tag.
Anyway, submit your compositions to MusiCHI, adding them to the DB I do think the best solution
Best
Vincent
I think this approach works well when you have complete performances of each of these works, such as the entire AdP or Winterreise. However, very often only excerpts of these cycles are performed (same thing for the Êtudes transcendantes for example) and IMO it would be good to be able to find these as compositions individually, without needing to use an additional tag. MusiCHI has implemented this for some compositions (e.g. Chopin's Préludes), but not (yet?) for many others. Which is why an auto-learning function in this program would be so practical.
Something else I haven't quite figured out: How to tag transcriptions properly. It would be helpful to have some kind of double-composers available under the composition tag in the MusiCHI database (e.g. Bach/Busoni or Wagner/Liszt), otherwise the only option seems to be to put the name of the arranger into the composition tag, e.g. "Violin Partita BWV 1004 in d-minor - Chaconne (arr. Busoni)". This seems somewhat clumsy to me, and I can't look for all transcriptions by using the composer tag which would be the most intuitive.
In any case, thanks a lot for your quick feedback and insight, much appreciated.
Marcel