How strict of a tagger are you?

[bondingo]

^That's the really tough part. It depends with me. I do Rainbow in hangul since there's some much more popular group I've never heard of using the tag in English and I hated using "Rainbow" only to have a picture of that group show up on my last.fm (like you said). Secret I do in English because it's written in English on all their covers and stuff, and no one else has that tag dominated like with Rainbow. T-ARA I do in English for the same reason as Secret (there's DEFINITELY not another artist using T-ARA). It's annoying and confusing since everyone disagrees. I can't tell in a lot of cases, but it seems right to me to use the English tag when the Korean is nothing more than a phonetic spelling of the English word. Conversely, SNSD's tag for the Korean releases should be the hangul because it says Girls' Generation actually in Korean and it's not just a phonetic spelling like most of the others.

I don't think anyone should be telling anyone else what to do with tags though. At the end of the day, it's that person's preference. I do think, however, that if someone is gonna use last.fm, they shouldn't do things that are blatantly wrong like using romaji for Japanese artists' names or song titles, but if you aren't scrobbling it, then I sure as hell don't care what they're doing.

[noisy_harmony]

...So I decided to be like everyone else and started tagging artists with their "romanized" names.

One question guys. Where do you get correct dates of releases? Since I'm naming folders with album/single title and its release date too. I'm going mad seeing different dates of the same thing at wikipedia-like sites, korean websites, sharing communities... (>_<)

[bondingo]

^Only the year really matters, right? I mean, since you can't input month and day on iTunes. It's never really much of an issue to at least get the year, which seems to be the same everywhere. Not sure how to help if you ARE inputting day and month somewhere too though...

[noisy_harmony]

^ No, I don't use iTunes. I just... want to know the proper date, I'm a OCD like that.

[FIRSTKLAS]

Originally Posted by noisy_harmony

One question guys. Where do you get correct dates of releases? Since I'm naming folders with album/single title and its release date too. I'm going mad seeing different dates of the same thing at wikipedia-like sites, korean websites, sharing communities... (>_<)

With Korean releases it can be really hard to get an exact release date since there isn't much information out there that references official sources. A lot of KPop artists don't even have detailed discography information on their official sites and the closest thing you'll get on the actual CDs is only the year and month.

It's easier to date newer releases because you can always check sellers on eBay, but for older releases you'll just have to get used to possibly not having the correct date - and definitely don't rely on YesAsia for information either since they use their own release dates.

[noisy_harmony]

^ yup I know about YesAsia I think it's like that with every selling website though.