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For users of Yate, the single greatest music-tagging app ever made (sadly Mac only):

I have made an action set which will automagically parse Work and Movement related tags from reasonably-formatted titles, as are usually provided from external sources. This allows players which support it to display a much more classical-music-oriented interface which allows the grouping of tracks by Works, and numbering of Movements separately to tracks and discs. It uses the "common prefix" of the track titles to detect the work name.

Screenshots show a demo picked at random from my "to sort" folder.

It is capable of correctly handling titles containing:

punctuation separating work and movement names, including dashes, commas, colons, or even only a space
decimal and roman numeral movement numbers, with variety of punctuation, between work and movement
no movement numbering, including words that start with valid roman numerals.
work and movement names containing all manner of punctuation marks.#MusicTagging #Yate:boost_ok:

Screenshot of the initial state. A track from a Korngold String Quartets album has a title of the form "work name [roman numerals] movement name". the work and movement fields are blank.

I select the four tracks in the work (String Quartet No. 1 in A major, Op. 16). And hovered over is the icon to run action 2, called "Title > Work + Movement"

While the action runs, it presents a dialog checking if it has correctly parsed the work & movement for the first selected track.
In this case, it correctly selected the movement name as "Allegro molto", discarding the roman numerals and punctuation in between.

The final screenshot shows the Work Name, Movement Name, Movement Number, and Movement Count fields correctly filled on the third movement, as another example.

Poor schemas, poor cataloguing: why music tagging sucks

One common issue that many music enthusiasts face with their local music library is the tedious process of tagging. While tools like beets or MusicBrainz Picard can help streamline the process, there are still fundamental issues with the design of tags for music and the way they are applied. This not only makes exploring music more difficult, but it also limits the potential of our music collections and leaves many opportunities untapped.

The current state of music tagging leaves much to be desired. Tagging schemas are often incomplete, inconsistent, and incorrect, making it difficult to navigate music libraries and discover new music. This hinders the ability to find what you're looking for and prevents full exploration of the potential of music libraries.

https://sporks.space/2023/02/18/poor-schemas-poor-cataloguing-why-music-tagging-sucks/

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