Super Eurobeat - Tag Collection

[KiraTM]

Hey guys! (You can skip the following story.)
I like to fill all IDv3 tags that can be filled. Because of that, I tagged things like the composers and labels into my music files as soon as I got a new CD.
This surely is a ton of work. And all this work was burnt when my HDD decided to die. I had no backup because it was my 3 TB external drive and I never bought another one for backup purposes.

Beginning in mid-June, I had a lot of work to do. It took me a whole week and two PCs to rip simultanously my complete collection. I managed to re-build about 50% of my iTunes library including play counts and so on... After I've completed all these tasks, I saw my composer and label (grouping) tags were erased.
Lebon14 started a scanning project and I felt like I should join in since I can scan in the background. Also, copying the names from the screen to the tags was a lot more comfortable compared to staring down into the booklet and tap the name into the keyboard.
Thus, I've done this with each Eurobeat album I own.

After finishing that, I exported the tags to .txt files and saved them in a cloud just in case. Ripping CDs isn't hard, but tagging the music files is time-intensive.

Story end.

I want to share my tag files with you so you can easily tag your digital collection!
What you need: MP3tag (free, can tag any file format, not only MP3!)
My tag files in Dropbox.

Just select the album you want to tag in MP3Tag. then choose the action "File to tag..."
Now select the .txt file for your album.

Then you need the syntax I used:
%album% // %discnumber% // %track% // %artist% // %title% // %year% // %genre% // %contentgroup% // %composer% // %comment% // %bpm% // %albumartist%

Notes:
I usually preferred the label names being present on the logo. (SCP: "Stefano Castagna Productions" until 199, "SCP Music" until 219. "SCP Eurobeat Productions" since 221 because they were credited as this then.)

There can be typos! I'm just a human who tagged more than 2,000 music files.

The comment tags were used for megamix information: "Non-Stop mixed by DJ xyz".

The grouping tag was used for the label's name.

I Used This Capital Style. NO CAPS LOCK or Only Preposition Like the Lower-Case (exceptions are mostly J-Euro artists like "globe" instead of "Globe").

%albumartist% is empty for my SEBs since I let my program deal them as compilations. I prefer this over having "Various artists" in the tags and I like the German word for that more... If you needt hat, you have to manually add the tags to each album if you haven't already.

Even if I put in %bpm% into the syntax, I haven't tagged them (yet) in 221+ songs. Maybe I'll do this some time in the future.

Currently available tags:
SEB 99, 130, 144, 148, 159, 165, 168, 181-196, 199-209, 211, 212, 214-216, 219-239
Best of SEB 2008-2015


I hope you can make use of the tags. If not, it's at least my tag backup.

[Lebon14]

That's a nice idea.

I personally don't care into getting Composer and BPM in my tags. If I need a specific BPM, I just get a WAV into MixMeister BPM Analyzer. For credits, I just look it up in the Eurobeat Catalogue. So, it kind of look like that:



I also do NOT tag "Extended Versions" into the SEB album name with the exception of non-stop mixes.

There are a lot of if and but in my rules.

[KiraTM]

That's a nice idea.

I also do NOT tag "Extended Versions" into the SEB album name with the exception of non-stop mixes.

There are a lot of if and but in my rules.

Thank you~!

Yeah, even though many SEBs are called "Extended Version" I didn't tag that either. I mean, there's no "Radio Version" out there, so why should we specify this?

[Lebon14]

I mean, there's no "Radio Version" out there, so why should we specify this?

We don't but, technically, the compilation names includes "Extended Versions". On the spine for SEB239, it's explicitely written: "(Avex small logo) Super Eurobeat Vol.239 Extended Version AVCD-10239 SEB". Pic:


I still don't do it because I judge it the same as writing "Disc 1" in the album title. The songs are in a full format, lengths are longer than 3min-ish radio format, so, in theory, must be the full songs, the extended tracks unless otherwise. That's way of thinking. I write the mix name because it's technically a subtitle. "Extended Version" is neither the name or a subtitle. It's just like saying "these songs are full versions!" or including "uncut versions" in a bubble on teh cover art like on the so many knock-off compilations of cover songs with an unknown performer ("as seen on TV!").

[drnrg]

I use foobar and I also tag my mps. I just hate empty spaces or when it just appears as track 1 or track2 I don't always tag the composers and what not. Only the tags that actually show up on Foobar as file is playing. Instead I'll just put the label or record company under the Publisher tag. I do the same with my noneurobeat files.
For the SEB edits. I'll put down the cd it apperas on and track number, but for Extended versions ;I'll put the song's catalog number under Album. For example. Time records file is TRD 1156.

Everyone does their's different; I guess. I like mine this way. That way it looks different from SEB edits and Extended versions....and of course; Always always album art is a must.

There arethose out there that would consider us; who fill in those tags, as very picky people.

Also I create other listeners librarys by filling in there tags on there mp3 files. Very time consuming, but wikipedia comes in handy. I charge by size of Music library.

[Rain197]

Really cool thing with mp3tag :
Right click on a song > Tag... > Click the icon with a yellow star > UNSYNCEDLYRICS > Copy/paste the lyrics of the song

Enjoy singing instrumental with tagged lyrics than going on the web.
Work well with Poweramp on Android !

[KiraTM]

That's what I wanted to do soon. After tagging all composers and labels, I want to add lyrics to each song.
My music player MusicBee has got a nice view for that. I don't let display lyrics on my phone that often.