Guilty. I've never tagged any of my files, though I suppose I would be in the camp that I don't know alot of the setlists before I post them.
Noob Tagging Question: Do both the FLACs and the WAVs get tagged? IOW do you only do it once or twice?
You can't tag wav files. Tag after you flac and then do the md5 of the tagged files.
Sorry to derail, but I would also recommend making an ST5 checksum for only the PCM audio. It ignores any metadata associated with an audio file so that if some schmuck decides to edit your tags, the checksum will still pass so long as they don't alter the actual audio. At some point on this forum we had a debate about md5, st5s, and ffps (most surrounding redundancy), but I think that having all three can be useful. The advantages of all three (as i see it) are:
MD5s - Ensures a fileset is bit-for-bit accurate with the original, including the encoding/metadata/tags.
ST5s - Ensures the PCM audio is bit-for-bit accurate with the original, ignoring encoding/metadata/tags.
FFPs - Allows you to quickly verify that the files match the checksum without having to decode/test the actual files. This is because a copy of the fingerprint is stored int he file header. You can also decode/test the actual data file as you would with an MD5 or ST5. Like ST5s, FFPs also ignore encoding/metadata/tags.
I include all three in my file sets, but of course you don't have to. Personally, I don't like FFPs because most people don't know that they actually need to decode the file to verify that it is bit-for-bit accurate. By only comparing the checksum in the FFP vs. the checksum contained in the file header, there is a risk (albeit very small) that the actual data is not bit-for-bit accurate.