The sound of tagging - sorting out the plethora of audio related tags

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We have multiple audio related tags:

Out of these tags, some of them are quite clear:

music-production clearly covers virtual instruments, digital audio workstations, sequencing software, etc.

music seems to be at the more average end user end of the scale - media players, media library software, that sort of thing.

And then some of them are a little off key and probably need fixing:

audio appears tagged with one of the other tags in all but one instance

composing covers sequencing, essentially - I think this should be merged into music-production and a synonym created.

Yeah, let's avoid audio which is too broad. We have audio=sound on Unix & Linux and we sometimes regret this too-broad tag. — Gilles 'SO- stop being evil', Feb 12, 2014 at 14:47
Related meta: What is the difference between sound and audio? — kenorb, Jun 7, 2015 at 12:40

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-13 12:50:04Z

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audio should be reserved for software dealing with audio capabilities of the computer (e.g., turning audio on/off, speaker/headphone driver type software, volume controllers, recording sound) instead of being used as a super-umbrella-tag. Possible other aliases: speakers, headphones, audio-capabilities. May be also alias sound and sound-recording.

Ex: Android app to silence the phone
music-production should stay as you proposed, with alias composing.
sound-editing should be for things that let you edit sound files.
music should stay , with alias music-players. Or may be better yet, reverse the two.

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answered Feb 13, 2014 at 12:12

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We also have a sound tag, where would you put this?
– Angelo Fuchs
Feb 14, 2014 at 19:16
okay. Would you add this to the answer (synonym sound to audio) so its complete?
– Angelo Fuchs
Feb 14, 2014 at 20:04
I added a list of examples in my answer. Would you copy it and propose what tags should be used in your scheme so they can be compared?
– Angelo Fuchs
Feb 15, 2014 at 13:19
Related meta: What is the difference between sound and audio?
– kenorb
Jun 7, 2015 at 12:39

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2 revs · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-16 15:52:38Z

I suggest the following definition (and will compare it to "CSV-File"):

Also I feel strongly with this Meta: Lets tighten the reins of the tags "Tag + Space + Tag" = Bad.

Thus the following tag changes:

audio, music and sound should be treated as a "topic tag" like programming, video etc. and therefore discouraged (maybe even removed & blacklisted).
"audio-" tags should be used in the border cases where nothing else matches.
should hardware interaction questions arise they should be consistently tagged audio-hardware (instead of microphone etc.)
"music-" tags should be used only where it is especially about longer tracks of sound. (like music-composition and its synonym music-production)
"sound-" tags should be used more generic to interact with audible content.

Examples (only audio related tags): ^{Most are taken from this site.}

"What Plugin in Browser controls my microphone": audio-hardware
"Dead simple MP3 Player": sound-player
"Sound Studio Collaboration Software": music-composition
"Linux tool that lets the media keys control web media sites": - no audio tags -
"Guitar chord application": music-composition
"CD-Ripper": audio-transformation
"Software to delete music duplicates": sound-files
"Music manager for a mass storage based music player": sound-files
"Songbook text processing": music-composition
"Software for deleting music...": sound-files
"Purchase iTunes music on Android and sync it to iPod": sound-files

This causes the following synonyms (and much more in the same style):

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