Thus, I really only have two main genres: So I use the album genre tag primarily to distinguish between music that is compatible with other uses of my language processing center (such as reading) and music that is not. Music with comprehensible or near-comprehensible lyrics will compete for resources in your brain’s language processing center and kill reading comprehension. Some tags are useful for browsing, others are mainly for display while an album is playing. Let’s walk through all of those tags in more detail. Many people stick with version 2.3 for maximum compatibility, but version 2.4 has one critical improvement: it allows me to have multiple instances of almost any tag in a file, which is essential.) The one thing to know is that with mp3 specifically, my tagging scheme only works with tags in the ID3v2.4 format. With programs like Mp3Tag, you don’t really need to worry much about the format, as the program will take care of standardizing across formats. I had some mp2 files as well, but I ended up converting them to FLAC for compatibility reasons (mostly, MinimServer doesn’t read the tags of mp2 files). (A note about file formats: My library is mainly mp3, but I also have some FLAC, m4a, and Vorbis files. That’s because I’ve set Dan Wilson as the index artist for all of these albums (and either Trip Shakespeare, Semisonic, or Dan Wilson as the album artist). Notice that Trip Shakespeare, Semisonic, and solo Wilson all show up here. I browse through the index artists and I spy Dan Wilson… (This is the advantage that finally convinced me that tags are better than a folder structure.) The great thing about electronic files, though, is that a single album can be filed under multiple artists so the album appears multiple places. The index artist for an album is the artist you would file the album under if, say, you were working at, say, Musicland. At this point, I either browse by albums sorted in chronological order: Let’s say that I’m doing the dishes (but not also reading-sometimes I like to sneak a few paragraphs in while I’m doing the dishes I really like reading) and I want something I can sing along to. Music that doesn’t engage the language centers of my brain (mostly instrumentals) is tagged with the genre set to “melodic.” Music likely to engage the language centers of my brain is tagged as “semantic.” I normally listen to music under two conditions: either I’m reading (a book, an article, websites-anything that actively engages the language centers of my brain) or I’m not. ![]() When I browse for music, it goes something like this: This guide is for people who value owning and listening to whole albums. I think most people nowadays either just randomize all their songs or subscribe to streaming services and listen to songs rather than albums. For many years, when I listened to music I just browsed via the folder structure, but realized as I was experimenting with the DLNA server that I really needed to get my tags in order–and anyway I realized that tags presented some interesting ways to browse for music. I recently set up a DLNA server for music at home. ![]() ![]() This is a person for whom the music is important, for sure, but also the experience of cataloging, browsing, and immersing himself in a music collection is also important. I'd recommend new users to look at both before selecting one, and pay particular attention to the manuals, support pages and forums for both products, to work out which suits them best.There’s a wonderful scene in the movie High Fidelity where the lead character rearranges his entire record collection so that it is neither chronological nor alphabetical, but autobiographical. I guess that, between Asset and MinimServer, if you are using the one successfully you need a very specific reason to switch to the other. But its author Spoon (another one man band by the way) is the author of other excellent software applications including dBpoweramp, which is a recommendation in itself. I've looked at Asset, but the paradigm is a bit different to that of MinimServer, and I don't think that, for me, it would be worth the hassle of learning it. I do, and, like I was very willing to pay the relative small licence cost. That will depend more than anything on whether he uses the vast range of options that MinimServer offers. I'm with those who day that, If happy with MinimServer 0.7, there's a good chance that the free Starter edition of MinimServer 2.0 will suit his needs. Click to expand.Sadly, Kazoo Server is questionably functional bloatware, and a resource hog to boot.
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