# Selectable mp3tag configurations

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/selectable-mp3tag-configurations/18631
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [January 25, 2017, 6:04am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/selectable-mp3tag-configurations/18631 "2017-01-25T06:04:58Z")
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### Author: ![Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/zerow/32/11379_2.png) [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2017, 11:07am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/selectable-mp3tag-configurations/18631/5 "2017-02-06T11:07:17Z")

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> [@d2b](#):
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> [...]Depending on the genre of the music, it would be desirable to be able to easily switch the configuration of mp3tag so that different items appear in the tag panel and in the grid to the right. A good example of this requirement is when tagging tracks whose content is a medley of tunes rather than a single song or tune. This circumstance arises regularly when working with Celtic files. Many Celtic tracks have a "short name" but actually comprise a series of tunes in a medley, each with different titles and composers. Our current approach to that is to create a MEDLEY tag. When the tag is set to "1", the system reading the tags will "know" to find the following tags and correlate them accordingly. Assume for the moment that there are three distinct tunes in the medley. In this case, we want to assign TTILE1 to the first tune, TITLE2 to name the second tune and TITLE3 for the third. The TITLE tag is used for the "short name." Corresponding to the tune's titles, we would use COMPOSER1 to identify the compser(s) of the first tune and so on, with the composers or songwriters of the other two tunes on the track identified with COMPOSER2 and COMPOSER3 tags.

For years now, I am using my own naming system that deals with such issues

I use \>\>+\<\< to indicate separated songs. Songs, not tracks. So let's say some track originally titled  
**Folk Medley**  
would become for example a file named  
**Folk Song A + Folk Song B + Traditional Tune X**  
and / or three separates files named  
**Folk Song A  
Folk Song B  
Traditional Tune X**  
depending if there could be separated in a way that would not destroy my [subjective] listening experience

And if that means renumbering tracks- then I do it. If that "Folk Medley" was a track number 1, then "Traditional Tune X" would become the new track number 3, and the original track 2 would become track 4 after the adjustments

[Although If I were to do all my files again, I would rethink that method, as to if "Traditional Tune X" would be better of labeled as track "1.3"; so that it would both indicate the original numbering and what I consider a proper one. Or to choose o system with two separate tag fields; the original one and the second with what I consider to be a proper numbering]

I also use \>\>/\<\< to indicate what I truly call a medley. In [around] the provided example, if it was something more like a  
**Folk Song A + Folk Song B + Traditional Tune X + Folk Song A + Folk Song B + Folk Song A + Traditional Tune X + Folk Song A**  
then I would not indulge myself in counting and repeating titles, bu just consider this as a one new song, entitled  
**Folk Song A / Folk Song B / Traditional Tune X**  
assuming that this was the order in which the were used

As you already have such detailed information, this such not be a problem. The problem is when you know the song "Folk Song A" and "Traditional Tune X" and also clearly hear that there is something else that you are not able to recall by title ["Folk Song B"] or you suspect that there is something more that you simply do not know

I also use \>vs.\<\< to indicate ingredients [particular songs] of mashups, which are something different than remixes and which are different from medleys [because they do not have new instruments, performers, arrangements etc.]

And on top of that I keep in COMMENTS further and / or more detailed information about each song [given that there is such a need and info available], that tell me if it samples some other song [or a movie], if it is based on some other song [or poem], if it incorporates some other song in a verbatim form. And these entries are also separated, if needed, by \>\>+\<\< and / or \>\>/\<\< signs, so that there will correspond with titles. It gets the job done, although when putting a lot of info in a file containing multiple songs, the info becomes blurry

[Of course this is not the all there is to this system of mine, but these were the basics to which in time I added some more indicators / rules]

> [@d2b](#):
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> [...]  
> Configuring mp3tag to accommodate the desired medley tag plus six title and six composer tags is certainly possible but the tag panel and grid would become overpopulated and cluttered for the 95% of the albums we tag that have only one tune or song per track.

A] Invest in widescreen monitor, with aspect ratio of 21:9. I simply cannot count, how much clicks and time have I saved since switching from a 16:9  
B] Find a font that has less space between letters / words. Compare Arial Narrow with Arial for a start  
C] Adjust system settings for spaces between elements, the thickness of sliders and so on. Those few pixels my seem not much, but they can result in the ability of adding some thin column, for example with track number, without the need of scrolling horizontally to see it

> [@d2b](#):
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> [...]  
> Here's one idea: is there a way to install, say, three different config files in the user/.../roaming folder for mp3tag and then launch mp3tag using only one of those configurations at a time? Are we the only ones that would benefit from being able to select from one of several configurations when launching the program?

No

I would also benefit from it, as I ~95% of the time use my main configuration [for music], 4% a completely different [for learning foreign language] and the remaining 1% the main configuration with adjustments made on the fly

And the request has been already made by me [[/t/17941/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/17941/1)]

> [@d2b](#):
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> It isn't necessary to switch on the fly between configurations. Closing the app and relaunching it into another configuration would be more than acceptable!  
> [...]

My proposition suggested extended modification to the Utils; there shouldn't be a need for a re-launch of Mp3tag

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