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Are you VGM perfectionist?
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Old Apr 26, 2006, 03:04 AM #1 of 22
I was a perfectionist, until I got really tired of reworking on all the ID3 tags so that they'd fit my standard. Nowadays I just leave it like it was, unless the album is not labeled at all but near and dear to me.

One of the problems I had was what to put in the Artist column, since this is what would be displayed on Winamp. Usually the Artist is the Composer, and then there is the Original Artist as well. Especially with the Final Fantasy Albums you'd see a row full of unchanging Nobuo Uematsu's. I'm rather more interested in knowing from which game the current track is, on which CD it's located and which track number is attached to it, immediately and not after reading the title and thinking about it for a little while. Then I would put something like this into the Artist field:
"name of Game" "CD number"-"Track number"
The problem was that sometimes the display would be really long, so I tried to shortcut the names. But that would only work with more popular titles. If you want consistency, you'd have to give all other obscure albums abbreviations as well, and that means headache. Another problem would be if there exist games that would correspond directly to the abbreviations... as a perfectionist, I had to think about it.
Outside of ID3 tags, I also tried to give any track immediate recognizability (?). A lot of tracks can only be identified when they are in their FOLDERs for example. If you take them elsewhere you wouldn't know immediately from which game and so on this track was, so I applied the "name of Game" "CD number"-"Track number" "Track title" format. But then I had the problems with burning some of those onto CD... lol.
The conflicts never ended so I simply stopped. If someone has a perfect tagging system, I would quite be willing to restart this meticulous work again.

Jam it back in, in the dark.
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