Category: Classical Music

This is the last in my series about how the new Niente Version 3.0 has revealed past cataloguing 'issues' with my music collection. In previous episodes, I've dealt with:

• • • • • Missing or non-square or too small or too large Album Art
        • Inconsistent PERFORMER/ALBUM tags
        • Folders with multiple tracks, rather than SuperFLACs

        In this one, I'm turning my attention to the problem identified in the Niente Quick Aggregate Statistics report as statistic number 11, "Missing sample rates in filenames". As you can see from this screenshot, I'm missing this data in over 14,600 files (and I've only got 17,656 in the collection, so that's most of them!): [...] 

Following on from my two earlier escapades in fixing up my music collection's tagging, it is time to turn my attention to my penultimate big issue:That 'Folders with multiple tracks' statistic (number 12 in the list) is something that is not officially a problem, but it annoys me nonetheless! It is counting the number of times a folder contains more than one FLAC. Now, if you rip a symphony off most classical music CDs, you probably expect to end up with four separate 'tracks', each track representing one movement of the symphony -so the presence of more than one FLAC in a folder might not seem to be surprising or particularly 'wrong'.

You would be entirely correct in thinking that, I hasten to add: there is absolutely nothing wrong in having parts of a composition represented by a separate 'track' and there is nothing in my Axioms of Classical Tagging article to say otherwise. In fact, it's entirely silent on the subject. [...]