Tango.info music track metadata standard
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This is a proposed tango music metadata standard. If files are exchanged between two parties and they are tagged to the same standard, 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 positives unless marker is reserved
- pro: same scheme can be used for general role marking, e.g. "Juan D'Arienzo piano:Rodolfo Biagi"
- pro: allows filtering in a librarian e.g. search "Miguel Calo voc:"
- marking instrumental
- "Miguel Calo voc:-"
- con: in search "Miguel Calo voc:" causes false positives
- "Miguel Calo (instr.)"
- "Miguel Calo (Instr.)"
- "Miguel Calo voc:-"
- examples
- Miguel Caló, voc:Raul Berón - current preferred
- Miguel Calo canta Raul Beron
- Miguel Calo, Raul Beron - in use by tango.info tagging tagger1.0, currently preferred
- Terig Tucci, Carlos Gardel
- Carlos Gardel, Terig Tucci
- Angel Vargas, Angel Vargas
- (Orquestra Vargas with Vargas singing)
- Angel D'Agostino, Angel Vargas