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Take it easy, and use any tagging application which can tag local tracks using CDDB I bet all the music you've downloaded already exists in CDDB databases.it could be not so easy as it seems: normally CDDB database records for classical discs are so ill formed, unstandardized and lacking of fundamental informations that are only useful as a starting point for subsequent massive hand editing, with the help of the booklet. So this case, as the OP reported it, seems even worse than actually ripping from 17 physical CDs!.
Take it easy, and use any tagging application which can tag local tracks using CDDB I bet all the music you've downloaded already exists in CDDB databases.it could be not so easy as it seems: normally CDDB database records for classical discs are so ill formed, unstandardized and lacking of fundamental informations that are only useful as a starting point for subsequent massive hand editing, with the help of the booklet. So this case, as the OP reported it, seems even worse than actually ripping from 17 physical CDs!@Birdie: it's exactly, how Nessuno is writing: even using MP3tag, where I can not only lookup freedb, but also musicbrainz, discogs and Amazon, this 'auto-tagging' is mostly of no big help. At least, you most of the times get decent track- and albumtitles, and tracknumbers (still can't get over it, that these also were missing!!!!). But vital tags like composer, genre and orchestra, plus a proper formatting of multiple artist with a; separator still require hand editing.In my early days of backing up my CD-collection, I used to work with EAC (and freedb) and had later on to re-tag about 200 CDs manually: especially when you love classical music, Jazz and musicals, you need a bunch of tags to properly index your music. That's why a am such a big fan of dBpoweramp and it's great tagging options including AMG, Sinfonie and GD3.Deutsche Grammophon has all tags (even the more advanced ones) in their database (you'll be surprised when you physically rip the CDs, how many tags they must have provided to AMG and GD3, that dBpoweramp will lookup and apply), so I think one can expect that from them in their downloads as well.
Including a well-made pdf of the booklet.btw.: I would happily pay a small fee to lookup professional databases, since dBpoweramp is limited to rip&lookup and does not provide any way to later on apply tag-lookup of individual files. Does anyone know about any software, that can do that (besides MP3tag, that actually does not provide all the tags I am looking/wishing for)?. Last Edit: 2011-01-14 10:02:32 by dvdr. Sr. Member. Posts: 490.
Joined: Dec 15, 2001. Logged. As long as illegal downloads have better metadata than legal ones, the companies who offer such useless downloads should immediately stop lamenting about dimishing sales and spend all of that energy on improving their service. Any company who offers downloads like this absolutely missed the point. They offer digital downloads for much the same price as the CDs, without any expenses for the physical medium and much less for the distribution, effectively doubling their margin and don't find it necessary to attach proper tags to their files at least. They wouldn't sell CDs without booklets or titles like that, would they?
If they would, they could hardly complain about the sales. I wonder if they are really that barefaced at the DG or just plainly stupid. Last Edit: 2011-01-14 10:42:44 by Northpack. Newbie. Posts: 39. Joined: Feb 25, 2007. Logged.
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Further, to fix the tags in my DG FLAC purchases (quite a number), I copy and paste (using dbpoweramp) the metadata from the DG page for the 'Disc' advertised for purchase where the 'metadata' is perfect. So why can this information not be embedded in the FLAC files by DG?This is time consuming and annoying to say the least.(DG has in recent months changed distribution companies for download purchases and I wonder whether it is Universal digital distribution that is at fault.). Newbie. Posts: 14. Joined: Jun 20, 2004.
Logged. Quote Many thanks for your feedback.We appreciate you taking the time to give us this feedback so we can improve the products and services we offer. Most of what you have bought to our attention we are aware of and are currently looking at upgrading the way we include the meta data on our products.Kind regards,Brendan Bullard-WestUniversal Music Direct Support TeamAnother issue, that seems to be important: if you order right now, be very careful upon checking out your basket. DGG / Universal (who runs the shop) is now additionaly offering charging in Euro (before, you were charged in GBP).
I checked out in EURO, and they displayed EURO in the checkout-form. But: they charched me the EURO-amount as GBP without me being able to see this in the checkout form: the item was GBP 35 or EURO 45. Only in my PayPal bill I noticed, that they did not charge me EURO 45, but GBP 45, which in the end is EURO 54 - 9 Euro more than it should have been.They seem to mix up currency 'extensions' during the charging process.
Luckily I noticed that on the bill from PayPal, I will get a refund. Last Edit: 2011-01-19 12:01:01 by dvdr. Newbie. Posts: 3. Joined: Jan 27, 2011. Logged.
Further, to fix the tags in my DG FLAC purchases (quite a number), I copy and paste (using dbpoweramp) the metadata from the DG page for the 'Disc' advertised for purchase where the 'metadata' is perfect. So why can this information not be embedded in the FLAC files by DG?Just a suggestion, but has anybody tried using MusicBrainz for fixing their classical metadata? At least for me, it seems that in general their tags are pretty good and also contain a lot of the 'extra' information you might be interested in. Newbie. Posts: 1.
Joined: Feb 10, 2013. Logged. Deutsche Grammophon has all tags (even the more advanced ones) in their database (you'll be surprised when you physically rip the CDs, how many tags they must have provided to AMG and GD3, that dBpoweramp will lookup and apply),I would not be sure DG have the extra fields such as soloists, etc. For the next 4-6 months we have 15 musicologists adding these extra fields, so we will have around 85K classical CDs with extra fields in SonataDB.Later this year we hope to release an auto-tagger for classical. They just don't care.
I use Spotify, and classical music tagging is a mess, searching for classical is a pain, and a considerable number of albums are not gapless (even though the player is, sounds as if someone added fades when ripping/converting to ogg). I have been reporting these non-gapless albums for months, and most have not been fixed. Spotify says it's the labels' fault, but I don't care, my money goes to Spotify, so they should take care of it. My money goes there for now, until someone creates a service using the same payment model, but one that cares about classical music listeners. Maybe Amazon. Maybe Apple. Two days ago, I made my first (last?) purchase of FLAC from the DG site.
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I purchased a complete Beethoven quartet cycle (7 CDs). Like the original poster, I've spent far too much time punching in metadata by hand. I tried to auto-tag via media monkey but.no luck.I'm amazed that Universal has failed to do anything in over two years.
I recently made a purchase from eClassical (multi-volume) and all the metadata was included.At this point, I'm looking for other alternatives for FLAC downloads. I wonder if Decca has the same problem. Any recommendations most appreciated. Hero Member. Posts: 689. Joined: Feb 23, 2005. Logged.
I'm amazed that Universal has failed to do anything in over two years.What incentive do they have? They are not music lovers, they are not information junkies, they are not tech-savvy. They are businesspeople whose only mission in life is to keep these sound recordings just scarce enough and perpetually in copyright so that they can squeeze as much money out of consumers as they can. Their attitude is that 'it plays, doesn't it?' And 'we're offering you your freakin' lossless; now hand over the money, asshole'. And here you are, willing to risk (re-)buying it, even though it may well fail to live up to your tagging standards (or mastering, format, or pricing standards). They do not care about your angry emails or your complaints on forums.
They just want your f'ing money. Last Edit: 2013-02-20 22:40:44 by mjb2006. Jr. Member. Posts: 65. Joined: Feb 12, 2006.
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Staatskapelle BerlinOne feature of Bruckner’s symphonies that has been consistently held in my interest is that they sound as if they were conceived over the course of many centuries. The harmonic work is from the 19th century; the form is a Baroque form, 17th century. But there’s something medieval in the atmosphere, in the psychology of the music. And one often talks about the architecture of the music; but with Bruckner, sometimes I have the feeling that it goes deeper and deeper, more like an archaeological expedition rather than an architectural building.