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]

I edit the metadata on everything I download, though an earlier podficmeta post convinced me that I needed to put the reader in a field somewhere, which I had not been doing. I've started adding the author's name to the title field a la "x by y" and putting "z (reader)" in the artist field if I have more than one podfic by the same reader. I generally put fandom information in the album field, unless I need to group files for a multi-part podfic/series together. So basically my metadata is totally inconsistent :)

I have been known to add the track numbers on multi-part podfic.