Tag your songs properly!

You're such a perfectionist, haha. I'll try to fix up my tags, but I don't really see the point when I already have a good sized chart that's a few months old. Eh, we'll see...

*Throws boots at eyn*

*Runs away*

Egh.. I have too many songs to fix all the tags. But I'll try. You really are a perfectionist. Wayy too much.

That's the most annoying thing ever. I can't play a song without having a proper tag on it.

AND NO TRACK NUMBERS ON FILES!!! ROAR

Track numbers are for CD's not MP3's!

If you use foobar2000 you can set it up such that only music stored in your fb2k database will be sent to last.fm, which makes it almost impossible to send a track without proper tag to last.fm.

The database allows you to restrict only music files from a certain directory to be included in the database, thus tracks that are not put into this folder will not be included in your fb2k database, and hence will not be sent to last.fm.

For example, I have a folder called "Music" under "My Documents" in Windows XP, under which there's subfolders for different artist and sub-subfolder for albums and singles etc. I restrict FB2K to include only songs put into this "Music" folder to be included in the database and only music files under the parent folder "Music" will be sent to last.fm. If you downloaded some new music files from bittorrent and want to listen to them without tagging them first, you can feel free to play them in FB2K and not worry about its improper tags, since they won't be sent to last.fm. Once you finally sit down and tag them up properly, you can move these files under "Music" folder and from now on they will be sent to last.fm when you play them.

Cool enough?

Here's a screenshot that give you some idea how this works:

iTunes should able to display Japanese characters by default. To read mp3 tags written in Japanese, you need a player that support ID3v2 tags, you also need East Asian Language installed in your Windows XP, particularly Japanese. foobar2000 support ID3v2 but make sure you have the ID3v2 plugin installed and properly configured, i.e. set it up to write tags using both ID3v1 (industry standard) and ID3v2.

Tagging songs in foobar2000 is a piece of cake and it shows you very clearly what standard fields are available and tagged (e.g. TITLE, ALBUM, DATE, GENRE, TRACKNUMBER etc.) and you can also add extra custom fields if you want (e.g. LYRICS, COMPOSER). iTunes and others gives you a nice GUI but many custom tags might be hidden if they are not supported by their GUI.

foo_infobox is a very useful plugin for FB2K to do manual tagging. iTunes is good for spotting missing tags since it displays tag data in columns. FB2K also support columns if you are into it, overall, FB2K in the music player market is like Firefox in the browser market, it provides you custom plugins (just like extensions in Firefox) to enhance your using experience. ;)

My tags are always good. That's actually the first thing I do when I finish downloading a song!!! XD

Oh yeah, BoA comes off as Boa in last.fm... =______= Also, hitomi's PARADISE comes off as Paradise... even though my tags are perfect... And many many many people think the song I Am from Inuyasha is from Hitomi Yaida...

Yesterday, I just started putting the Japanese titles instead of the romaji. Damn, this is gonna messed up my list a little...

Winamp makes it really easy to re-tag your file. select all the Ai-chan you want to rename and then right-click "eidt selected items". Make sure the box is ticked and it will grab the song name from the name of the file.

yes.
I always do it (with cover, year, cd number, artist, song nr....) XD iTunes 4life *hasgotamac*

I re-tag most of my songs in Winamp. And I prefeer romaji instead of kanji. :)

I´m re-tagging all my CDs to Japanese and I´m starting with FB2K (used WinAMP for ages). It really looks like a useful tool and the Unicode support and tagging system is really comfortable. Well it´ll take some time, but soon you won´t see any romaji song titles in my charts. :)

@Kelsey: you know, that thing about "emotion" changing to "Emotion" is nothing you can do anything about. you'll just have to live with it, like everyone else. The capitalizations goes after the first scrobble any user does, that's why when you for example scrobble "Pocket" it ends up like "PoCKEt" because some stupid brat scrobbled it like that.
i've actually got almost all of my songs tagged in lower case romaji, but i always make sure that it scrobbles correctly the first time i listen to a certain song.

Arashi2K6 said:
For some reason, it's popular in Jpop to MESS AROUND with the CASE of song AND ALBUM names as IF THAT was COOL OR SOMETHING, but it's in fact wrong, and nobody who speaks English properly does this.well, that doesn't change the fact that they do it in japan, does it? and we're supposed to tag it like they do, so i'm sorry, but i disagree with your post.