Tag remapping

Tag remapping is a technique used to solve the problem of a music library and the player device it feeds making conflicting requirements upon the scheme of tagging.

Requirement

• music library needs tag content to be full and pure e.g.

Album	Disc#	Track#	Title
40 Grandes exitos	1	1	Marioneta
40 Grandes exitos	2	1	Soy un arlequín

• player does not support Disc# and so fails to correctly sort track of pure-tagged multi-disc albums, requiring as workaround impure tags:

Album	Disc#	Track#	Title
40 Grandes exitos [Disc 1/2]	1	Marioneta
40 Grandes exitos [Disc 2/2]	1	Soy un arlequín

Solution

An automatic process can be used to translate from the pure library scheme to the impure device scheme.

Solution 1

This is simple, but the translations rules are remote from the library.

• In Mp3tag, load the device tracks and (on the newly synced tracks only) execute:
  • Action: Guess Values
    • Source format: %album% '['Disc %discnumber%']'
    • Guessing pattern: %album%

Solution 2

This is more flexible and keeps the translation rules as near the library, but relies on librarian program support.

• In MediaMonkey, set
  • Auto-Sync Sync tracks to: <Genre>\<Album> [Disc <Disc#>]\<Track#>\<Artist>\<Title>
  • Upon sync, this will place the library tag values into the filepath e.g.
    Tango\40 Grandes exitos\1\Alfredo De Angelis, Floreal Ruiz\Marioneta
• In Mp3tag, load the device tracks and (on the newly synced tracks only) execute:
  • Action: Guess Values
    • Source format: %_folderpath%\%_filename%
    • Guessing pattern: %dummy%:\%dummy%\%genre%\%album%\%track%\%artist%\%title%

Note: This does not preserve any characters reserved by the device filepath e.g. Shusheta / El aristócrata may go to Shusheta - El aristócrata.