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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8;3435915
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I am actually asking [B
you[/B] for something, however. It has to do with labelling the classical music files and keeping them organized (e.g., everything by Tchaikovsky in one folder, everything by Dvorak in another folder, etc.)
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I was going through my recent audio downloads to look more into the file names to see what kind of information might lie there. Here are two observations, for what they're worth:
1) Downloads from some of the providers have some truly helpful information in their file names. First, I make reference to my post #1136 on this thread, pertaining to Alexander Street giveaways. One of the free movements was
Am Rebenstocke blinket jetzt. The downloaded file name is "1. Die Jahreszeiten - Am Rebensctocke blinket jetzt [Joseph Haydn] - 1m0s.mp3". So, I've got the composer's name (Joseph Haydn), the name of the composition (Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons)), and the name of the movement (Am Rebenstocke blinket jetzt). I might be able to live with no more information than that. I noticed that another provider also had quite a bit of useful data in their file names.
2) YourClassical is
not one of the providers that gives much helpful information in their file names--at least in an obvious way. That's unfortunate, since we get more giveaways from them than probably anyone else (remember that some of the providers which don't have daily giveaways,
do give more pieces when they do make their giveaways. For example, you can get two complete albums from Naxos each month). However, I've noticed that in the file names there is an 8-digit number. Checking the last few files from YourClassical, I notice that there is the number "2016," followed by four other numbers. Hmmmm . . . could it be the number "2016" indicates the
year that the giveaway was made? The odds of it, I would think, are extremely high. I'm going to do some investigation about the last four digits of the 8-digit number and see if they can provide any help (like being a catalog number? That might be too good to ask for. But, if so, there may be some information that we can learn from that).
BTW--Koland, on
her blog (a really good one, by the way), more or less simultaneously posts the same free piece as YourClassical's, but they come from publicradio.org (there is some kind of arrangement in which YourClassical, publicradio.org, and Minnesota Public Radio, and maybe others, all make a post of the same piece everyday--that's about all that I know about it), instead. I noticed that the file name from publicradio.org is the same as from YourClassical and, if I was a bettin' man (which I'm not), I would bet the farm that you would find the file name for them to be the same, too. I say all of that really to say, if you're aware of this arrangement between the three or more organizations, you probably needn't bother seeing if their file names yield anymore informaton.
The downside, if the above pans out, is that I'm going to have to block off on my calendar a couple of weekends to re-label the files, not to mention get them organized. It would have been so much better if I just had been doing this all along, as I got new classical freebies . . . .
Gotta go.