Tagging

[zvi]

What kind of metadata/id4 tags do you guys wish podficcers would use? Are you retagging stuff after you download? If you podfic, what tagging scheme do you use?

The one thing I really wish people would do which I'm really not seeing is, if they record a series, I wish they would tag all of the parts as belonging to one album and set the track numbers so the series plays in order.

Some other stuff I long for: the reader to be set as the artist (I usually set the author as the composer). The genre to be set to speech, which makes my mp3 player more likely to recognize something as an audiobook. Something to be put in the URL field, either the amplificathon announcement, the audiofic archive listing, or a text version of the story.

What would make podfic work better on your listening device of choice?

Comments

[aethel]

Good question. I've never thought to check whether I could add a composer while creating metadata in Audacity, but in Windows XP, when I look at the properties of a file, "composer" doesn't show up as a field in the metadata. However, when my Sansa player is hooked up to my computer, I've noticed that the file system contains folders for artists who are not visible in the metadata. Spooky.