Thursday, December 01, 2005

Poor Man's iTunes Tagging

There still isn't any useful tagging in iTunes.

Doing a get info on a file and entering stuff in the comments field of the ID3 tag of the file doesn't count. I want to be able select a bunch of files, create arbitrary tags, and apply them all at once.

As a workaround, I'm tagging songs with one star as a negative tag - don't copy this song to the iPod. This gives me six tag states which are addressable by selecting many songs and right clicking and changing, or just letting me see the tags from the initial song interface.

The Tag States:
_ No rating
* Rating (equals do not play)
**-***** Rating (ok to great)

Songs such as the Notre Dame fight song have a 1 * rating.

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