Tagging classical with MusiCHI

[Vincent Kars]

Tagging classical is most of all a lot of work.
The internet databases in general recognize the CD but the results are often an incoherent mess.

Don't be surprised if you get
Sonate für Klavier und Violine F-dur Opus 24 [Frühling]
Sonata No. 5 "Frühlings - Sonate"
The Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major “Spring”, Opus 24

Often the composer is stored in the artist field and the performer hopefully in the album title.

What you need is tags for Composer and Composition and have them populated in a uniform way.

The MusiCHI tagger addresses these problems.
It has pick list for Composer and Composition.





You can also batch process your collection (MusiCHI Clean)

The text processor offers a lot of options to cleanup your tags.



I do recommend the MusiCHI Tagger.
It is a real time saver when tagging classical.

Website MusiCHI
Bit more on The Well-Tempered Computer

 

[Old Listener]

I looked at doing something like this when I was starting in late 2005. The logic of starting from a list of composers and works (and performers) was very attractive. It was easier for me to just use JRiver MC and put my efforts into getting proficient in using it to edit tags. (It takes me about 1 minute per CD now. Dropdown lists and auto-completion/suggestion provide some of the benefits of the MusiCHI approach.) If a tool like MusiCHI had been available then, I certainly would have tried it.

Thanks for bringing word of an interesting application.

Bill