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Beginning work on solving the metadata problem in classical music. Specifically, for those of us who either buy CDs or download tracks from the Web--the metadata is generally badly formatted, partial, in the wrong language, inconsistent from track to track, etc.

The hoped-for result is that you can run the tool on a directory and it will identify the files correctly and insert the metadata so that it is all consistent and correct. You can then copy the files to your favorite devices, and easily find what you want, make playlists easily, etc.

My current stage is researching the current tools, which are all (so far) partial solutions and IMHO cumbersome to use.

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tminima5y ago

Check out MusicBRainz. have done a pretty good job of the tools around music tagging. Following is the link of the similar tool you are woking on from these guys: https://picard.musicbrainz.org/

npsimons5y ago

> Beginning work on solving the metadata problem in classical music.

OMG, yes! While I know this is one of the classical (ha!) bikeshedding problems, and you'll never make everyone happy (and piss off a whole lot of them), I can only applaud your efforts. I'm as OCD about classical music metadata and code formatting as anyone, but when I saw that Go had a language formatter with an official indentation style, I loved it for settling a tired debate, even though I hate tabs for indent.

firethief5y ago

Neat. I implemented functionality like that for a media player, but it was years ago. The main issue we dealt with was the poor quality of the data, so I think we ended up with a combination of autodetect + store the original (incomplete) metadata so the user can always revert it if they find something wrong. Not a great UX, but GI/GO I guess.

ternaryoperatorOP5y ago

Yeah, that is indeed a big part of the problem, as is anything that's crowd sourced. It's amazing in this day and age that the music companies themselves can't provide clean, consistently formatted metadata.

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