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Tagging Classic Music albums with Mp3tag for iTunes and Last.fm

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I realized a lot of people having trouble with tagging Classic music. Initially, I got into Classical music to take up this challenge but now I am hooked into it because of its nice sophisticated melodies. There has to be a very straight forward way of tagging music. The ID3v2 specification provides us frames for the following tags that can be used to organize classical music:   Artist AlbumArtist Conductor OriginalArtist Composer Album Name   My goal is to devise a plan to fit all of these tags into Classical music appropriately, so that the Classic music composers will appear in Last.fm statistics music will be organized and displayed well in iTunes   The primary focus is given to how the music is organized. This means tagging conventions for track names is not one of the primary concerns in this article. First we familiarise ourselves with the ID3v2 frames for the tags above.   TPE1 The 'Lead artist/Lead performer/S

Digsby Launches- One App to Manage IM + Email + Social Network

Digsby is the first application that lets you manage all your existing IM, email and social network accounts from one easy to use application. it supports 15 services and integrates them into a clean user interface read more | digg story

Mozart - The Symphonies (Hogwood) [1997/MP3/V0(VBR)/Log]

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Satellite Dishes

It seems that despite you own your house and your land, you cannot simply buy and install a satellite dish at your will. The Canning council paper mentions the following:   If you are thinking of installing a satellite dish, please ensure you contact the City before making any final decisions on the type of dish or where you want it installed. It is advisable to speak with the City's Planning staff to find out if the process before you purchase or make arrangements for installation. It may save you heartache in the future! Planning staff can be contacted by ringing the City of Canning on 9231 0606 and asking for a Planning offer.   I am thinking why the heck would I have to. It is not like I am installing it on the road.   del.icio.us Tags: satellite , canning , council , rules , dishes , number , call

iTSfv - Hands down the best iTunes addon you could ever ask

iTunes Store file validator is an open source add-in for iTunes for automatic genre tagging from Last.fm, exporting iTunes Store artwork, downloading Lyrics from LyricsWiki, Synchrocleaning iTunes Music Library, recovering playedCount from Last.fm, automatic rating according played pattern, creating statistics for your music library, and many more. read more | digg story

iTunes to MediaMonkey to iTunes

I gave MediaMonkey 3 a shot today, after a successful trial in VMware Workstation last night. The reason I tried MM3 was, it being the first media player I heard that can automatically rename files and move them immediately after renaming tags. This behavior is not enabled by default however. I added the my proper iTunes managed 19910 tracks to MM3 and noticed tracks getting moved. For example a song belonged to AC/DC artist folder moved into a AC-DC artist folder tracks getting renamed (variant 1). For example 1-03 Secrets.mp3 renamed to 03 Secrets.mp3. I realized MM3 did not by default use the DiscCount tag to rename files. tracks getting renamed (variant 2). For example "07 What is Love_.mp3" which has the Name tag as "What is Love?" renamed to just "07 What is Love.mp3". iTunes used underscore for illegal characters but MM3 just did not include them at all. All this damage was done without me even enabling Automatically organize files.

Shell Uploader

ShellUploader is a Windows utility that adds the ability to upload files via the right click context menu. read more | digg story