Hi,
I want to set out tagging a quite large (approx. 7000 tracks) classical music collection. My father-in-law put in a great deal of work to manually arrange the files to his liking by sorting all tracks on the first level by composer (e.g., “Bach, Johann Sebastian”), then by the type of work (e.g., “chamber music”) and finally by work, artist and optionally recording year (e.g., “Goldberg Variations, Gould, 1982”). Many of tracks themselves do not have correct metadata, as my father-in-law was fine browsing the music by folder-„metadata“.
The organization the the tracks leads to the problem that tracks that belong to an album starring multiple composers, are scattered across the folder structure (e.g., this album release contains tracks by 8 composers and also multiple works per composer). Below is the folder structure for two composer-work combinations on that release: 1) the piano sonata in C minor by Scarlatti is its own folder (track 3 on release) 2) the piano sonata no. 3 by Beethoven (tracks 4 to 7).
The advice on using SongKong on only a subset of albums therefore does not really work, as I’d have to find all folders of that particular album first. Also I believe to have read that SongKong somehow uses the content of folders as support to tag the correct release etc.
I find the capabilities of SongKong quite promising, however, at the moment I do not really know how to approach this challenge, and which settings to adjust. If possible I’d like to avoid manually sorting all the tracks „back“ into folders resembling the album release structure.
I appreciate any advice! Thanks!