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**Contra: might hinder searching if you cannot type them. Winamp will not find "Caló" if you search "Calo"
**Contra: might hinder searching if you cannot type them. Winamp will not find "Caló" if you search "Calo"
==track titles==
==track titles==
* See http://wiki.tango.info/mul/song_titles#tango.info_naming_conventions
* See [[track titles]]
 
==genre==
==genre==
*upper case vs. lower case
*upper case vs. lower case

Revision as of 2008-03-10T17:49:47

This is an attempt for tango music metadata standard. If files are exchanged between to 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

genre

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

artist

  • accents
  • marking vocal
    • pro: allows easier filtering in a player (e.g. search "Miguel Calo voc:")
  • examples
    • Miguel Calo canta Raul Beron
    • Miguel Calo, Raul Beron
    • Miguel Calo, voc: Raul Beron
    • Terig Tucci, Carlos Gardel
    • Carlos Gardel, Terig Tucci
    • Angel Vargas, Angel Vargas
      • (Orquestra Vargas with Vargas singing)
    • Angel D'Agostino, Angel Vargas