A quick, simple question for someone with rudimentary knowledge of notation

[Lethevich]

I have a disc in which one piece has a movement with a standard Italian tempo marking, but two other movements are displayed like this:



The other is 100 instead of 50. The question: how do I translate this into text when ripping it? I have seen several discs with a similar number titled "quarter note", "dotted quarter" or "X bars after introduction", is it something to do with these?

[Joe Barron]

I'm not sure what ripping is, but if you want something in to type in words, just say "quarter note equals 50." That's what that symbol is.  The number refers to the metronome pace ---50 ticks per minute, so the third movement, at 100, is twice as fast.

[david johnson]

are you hunting a term to use...adagio, grave, etc??
i, too, am not sure i understand.  sorry.

dj

[(poco) Sforzando]

I don't understand either. What are you ripping and to where? When I rip a disc, it is nothing more than electronic data. I don't need to know from quarter notes, 50, 100, or anything of the sort.

[Lethevich]

Oh sorry, I mean that I like to have the movement titles in the filenames when I rip a CD, I don't like it being named "Track 1", "Track 2", etc. I can't use the note icon in the filename, so an equivelent name was needed.

"Quarter note = 50" for the track name sounds fine, thanks Joe

[PerfectWagnerite]

Oh sorry, I mean that I like to have the movement titles in the filenames when I rip a CD, I don't like it being named "Track 1", "Track 2", etc. I can't use the note icon in the filename, so an equivelent name was needed.

"Quarter note = 50" for the track name sounds fine, thanks Joe

When you stick a cd into your computer doesn't it try to fetch the track names from an internet database?

[Lethevich]

When you stick a cd into your computer doesn't it try to fetch the track names from an internet database?

Yep, but some of the time they are useless - people don't do it correctly, or don't even bother with tempo markings at all, just leaving each movement as a numeral. Not a problem with popular works, but obscurer things often require manual typing.

Then again, I manually type out everything, but I am uniquely obsessive...

[mn dave]

Yep, but some of the time they are useless - people don't do it correctly, or don't even bother with tempo markings at all, just leaving each movement as a numeral. Not a problem with popular works, but obscurer things often require manual typing.

Then again, I manually type out everything, but I am uniquely obsessive...

I'll send my hard drive over and you can clean it up for me.

[greg]

You could just write 50 bpm. (beats per minute)

[PerfectWagnerite]

Yep, but some of the time they are useless - people don't do it correctly, or don't even bother with tempo markings at all, just leaving each movement as a numeral. Not a problem with popular works, but obscurer things often require manual typing.

I hear you. Yesterday I was trying to rip the Inbal/Bruckner set onto my Itouch and for 2 or 3 of the symphonies instead of coming up with Inbal the database thinks it's Lopez-Cobos/Cincinnati SO. But nothing you can't edit later. It's not TOO bad at least it saves you some typing.