Tagger

Anyone familiar with tagging classical knows what is supplied as Meta data by the common internet databases is often a bit of a mess.

CHI addresses this problem in a couple of ways.

• Internet database
  Besides the usual suspects (FreeDB and Amazon) CHI also supports GD3.
  This is a paid service (lifelong support is included in the purchase). One might expect a more thorough and consistent tagging.
• Catalog with compositions
  The catalog contains compositions with all the relevant information like instrumentation, name, nickname, rank, opus, catalog and tonality
• List of composers. Almost each and everybody who ever composed something classical
• List of performers.
• Text processing
  Manually correcting tags is a tedious process. You can speed it up by using formulas to parse text e.g. using Regex (Regular Expressions).
  You need programming skills to do so.
  CHI comes with a powerful interface allowing you to do all kind of processing without needing programming skills.

This tagger saves you a lot of time tagging your classical collection.

Composer

The Composer says Bach.

Activate the button on the right of this field and take your pick!

This is the big trick using the Tagger; get the composer right first.

Composition

Once you have the composer, tag the composition in the same manner using the pick-list.

This requires the composition to be available in the database.

You can easily check available composers in the MusiCHI Clean Menu

The pick list with compositions allows you to sort by catalogue, opus and composition.

This is where this tagger shines, instrumentation, name, nickname, rank, opus, catalog, tonality and year of the composition, it is all there.

Instruments, genre and style

Pick list for instruments, genre and style.

Cleaner

An alternative to manual editing is invoking the Cleaner.
You simply select a bunch of tracks and let the Cleaner find the right values for Composer, Artist and Composition.