For various reasons none of which was intentional, I hadn’t started tagging my FLACs until recently. I’m using Foobar2000 along with the Live Show Tagger plugin, so I’m still a noob at this. I expect that my questions have all been encountered by everyone and they’ve been asked before, but seriously I’ve searched both our archives (which was rough going using the webrowser method since our search tool is down) and the web and come up empty. I have three problems I hope someone can help me with…
So Problems 1 is, when Live Show Tagger tags my FLACS, it seems to interpret song titles correctly because prior to accepting the tags, I get a window that displays all of the song titles, but then after they’re written into the metadata, they USUALLY get displayed in the players (both Foobar2000 and Winamp) as the filename, not the song titles. What’s strange to me is that this doesn’t happen all of the time…now and then the song titles are properly displayed in Foobar2000 and Winamp. So what’s up with that? Why won’t track titles display in Foobar2000 and Winamp instead of filenames?
Problem 2. I keep all of my shows in separate subdirectories on my harddrive. The file structure on my harddrive is Year Recorded (e.g. 1999) > Band Name (e.g. Phish) > Show Name (e.g. ph1999-12-31.mk4) > FLACs. Sometimes the year and band name are reversed, depending on whether my drive is my own recordings archive or my phish archive. Naturally, I’ve got the information text file that contains the tagging info (setlist, band, date, etc) saved the same directory as the FLACs. When I tag my FLACs, Live Show Tagger never assigns an ‘album’ in the metadata. I’d like the show name tagged as the album…this is how I do it in my itunes directory. Anybody know how to tell the tagger to do that?
Problem 3. The problem with not having an album assigned is that, when I add my shows to the library into Foobar2000 or Winamp, since I have no album tags, my files aren’t sorted conveniently in either player, so there’s no way to sort or play my shows so that the songs play consecutively as they were played during the show. If I sort by track number, all of the track 1’s for all shows play. If I sort by track title, all of the A songs are listed first.
So how do I get the libraries of either Foobar2000 or Winamp to sort on more than one sort term? What I’d like to do is sort on album (if I could figure out how to tag albums) and track so that my entire library is sorted by band, album or date, and track…then I can simply pick an album to play from my library without having to build a playlist for every freakin’ album.
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide.