Tango.info music track metadata standard

This is an attempt for tango music metadata standard. If files are exchanged between two parties and they use the same policy then there is no need to re-tag files to make them fit into ones library.

all fields

• Character set: ISO 8859-1? Unicode?
  • Contra: might hinder searching if you cannot type them. Winamp will not find "Caló" if you search "Calo"

track titles

• See track titles

genre

• upper case vs. lower case
• which genres, sub genres?

artist

• accents
• marking vocal
  • pro: allows filtering in a librarian e.g. search "Miguel Calo voc:"
    • con: suffers false pisitives unless marker is reserved
  • pro: same scheme can be used for general role marking, e.g. "Juan D'Arienzo piano:Rodolfo Biagi"
• marking instrumental
  • "Miguel Calo voc:-"
    • con: in search "Miguel Calo voc:" causes false positives
  • "Miguel Calo (instr.)"
• examples
  • Miguel Caló, voc:Raul Berón - current preferred ("by Tobiasco!" Chrisjjj 2008-05-01T09:40:02 (UTC))
  • Miguel Calo canta Raul Beron - current in use by Chrisjjj
  • Miguel Calo, Raul Beron - current in use by tango.info tagging
  • Terig Tucci, Carlos Gardel
  • Carlos Gardel, Terig Tucci
  • Angel Vargas, Angel Vargas
    • (Orquestra Vargas with Vargas singing)
  • Angel D'Agostino, Angel Vargas