Is there a standard for track splitting because there should be
I agree with most of your post, meaning how you attack track splits, but couldn't disagree more with this statement. Unless of course the standard is set to be exactly what I do.
And after the standard is set, then what? Ban uploads that don't conform to the standard?
From this thread already, I can see that splitting a show to avoid Gutbucket's pet peeves will leave it tracked so that it gets to one of my pet peeves. Which is why the standard is (and should be): I record it and track it, I track it how I like it. You record it and track it, you track it to make yourself happy and I live with it. That seems like a fair enough trade off to me. And adding of course, if you don't record, track, and distribute, you've got no right to bitch, so keep your comments to yourself on bit torrent sites or whatever. (This latter corollary not directed at those on this board, of course.
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Not trying to be a curmudgeon, which of course I am, but I will continue to track in a way that suits my desires (which of course reflect how I listen to music, whether I use shuffle play, or set up playlists, or whatever), and I totally expect and respect that others may want to do it differently. Lots of people have chimed in with how they do it, and I understand why they like to, and respect their desires to do so. But that doesn't mean it is what I prefer, and thus I see no reason for a standard, nor know how you would try to enforce the standard. I can guess how dimeadozen would, which is probably exactly why I wouldn't want to see one.
As to how I track: much the same as many have stated. I like the song to start right away though, so beginning of set crowd/tuning/banter often goes to its own track, as does encore crowd+pre-encore banter. If there is a quick introduction to a song (artist that wrote it and name), it probably goes with the track, but long discussions about the song or why/when/where it was written gets appended to the end of the last song (as I rarely do separate banter tracks anymore, unless the banter starts the set). If I don't want to hear it, I can fast forward; if I listen on shuffle, oh well if I heard the intro and not the song (if I want the full show experience, I listen from beginning to end anyway and there are no reasons for track breaks). I don't do playlists, but if I did, I could really see the benefit of all crowd and banter and non-song activity gets put into its own track. Medleys get kept together, but for the jamband music, there is a difference between one song that segues seemlessly into another, and then segues into yet another -- this could easily be 3 or more songs, but that doesn't make it a medley (and then of course there is the question of when is a jam just the end of one song that segues into the next, and when does the jam constitute its own track). All told, lots I do fairly consistently, and lots that reflects what others do. And lots of times I track in a way that hits someone else's pet peeves. Sorry Gut, if you're listening to my stuff.