Domingo 28 Jan 2007, 15h:55

I'm a music nerd, I have special demands when it comes to naming music files, each and every audio on my PC is tagged right (well, for me), but the last.fm Software just won't accept my sorting system.

Let's start with the basic rules of my sorting. It is by no means perfect, but I find it comforting and easy to understand.
I currently have 16 big files concerning the basic genre-
i) comedy & funstuff
ii) ethnic, medieval & ambient
iii) soundtracks & themes
iv) classical
v) goth, darkwave & industrial
vi) oldies & pop
vii) hard & heavy
viii) death, black & pagan
ix) doom & gothic
x) new-folk
xi) power & operatic
xii) asian
xiii) gothic & punk
xiv) grunge & misc
xv) rave & dancefloor
xvi) unsorted

Into these I divide the music files, only sub-sorted to artist names (no albums, no chronological order). This sorting is mostly straightforward, with just a few exceptions (where to differ between 7 & 11, some are moved to 14- like Marilyn Manson or all Sid-Metal-stuff).

Here comes the part where I'm actually flame-ranting:
People, really, I don't care how you care about your music files, if you put them in your music player manually, listen only from CDs, if you name them 001_-_my_album_-_1997_-_TrAcK_24_-_(256kb)_rippz0red_and_shared_by_*the_horses'_ass*.mp3
or whatever.
Just make sure the id3tags are alright, even if they only consist of artist and title name. Take your time to spell things right, don't use your kiddie-abbrevations, Fucking Write Every First Fucking Letter In Fucking Capital Or I'll Personally Find Everyone Of You And Rip Your Guts Out.

Hem… onward to my id3's- they are painstakingly exact but minimalistic. I have 5 'Addons' to give each file in case of them happening, which are:
(Live), (Cover), (Acoustic), (Orchestrated) and sometimes (Featuring 'full artist name(s)'). Those are located in order of appearance behind the track title.

This could sometimes lead to confusion, when a Liveact is playing a coversong with several guestmusicians, but thats rarely the case and I find it to be the best way to give all relevant information directly with minimal effort.

On to the last.fm-tags. I don't like them, in fact I think they are misleading and like every wiki-system ready for abuse.
They are great if you want a quick opinion on how others listeners think of a certain band you like, they can show familiarities, but that are optimistic thoughts, even when everyone would tag 'right'.

In my opinion it's a instrument for censoring, insulting, and showing everyone how incredibly dumb you are. I mean it guys, what is the reason for you to tag something 'seen live', 'albums I own' or 'shit'. That's something a sentient being wouldn't do. Why would I want to know that? Why do you think I give a 's ass if you dislike/have seen/own/approve of certain bands?
On the part of tags being censoring- name a certain band you like. How would you feel about it if there pops up something like 'satanic bullshit' or 'nsbm' in the 'popular tags' section (of course requiring that this band is NOT meeting these accusations)?

Oh, and The Beatles suck.