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From: zoara on 9 Apr 2010 17:56 David Kennedy <davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> wrote: > zoara wrote: > > Can anyone recommend a decent app for cleaning up music tags? I'm > > mainly > > interested in album art and the year of release, and I'm talking > > about > > supplementing tags that are alredy there and known to be correct. > > > > I've heard good things about Pollux but discovered it seems very > > much > > geared towards people with collections of badly-tagged (pirated?) > > music. > > As such it doesn't respect the data I have already added to the > > music, > > retagging compilations as though each individual track is from its > > original album - it's taking me longer to undo the mess it makes > > than it > > would have to manually get the info off the web and type it in. > > > > And downloading the artwork from iTunes has only succeeded for about > > a > > quarter of my albums. > > > > Album Art Thingy worked quite well here - although it still missed one > or two. Nice one, thanks. > > Basically I'd like something that tends towards accuracy (I know it > > will > > never be 100%), gets decent-quality artwork, and lets me preview > > changes > > - because I have never trusted auto-taggers and the Pollux > > experience > > has justified that (having said that, the iTunes CDDB tagging used > > when > > ripping CDs rarely fails - it's just that the metadata is sometimes > > a > > bit incomplete). > > So are you looking for something to edit the tags manually? Not really. More like I want to throw a hundred albums at it, let it do its thing, then get a list of proposed changes so I can skim through it and confirm that it hasn't completely whacked out (like Pollux seemed to) before applying the changes. > Didn't MP3Rage allow you to do that sort of thing, either singly or in > batches? I'm happy enough with the manual tag editing in iTunes. Just want to avoid the slog of manually editing each of a few hundred CDs. -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: zoara on 9 Apr 2010 17:56 Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > On 8 Apr 2010 15:12:35 GMT, zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > >Can anyone recommend a decent app for cleaning up music tags? I'm > > mainly > >interested in album art and the year of release, and I'm talking > > about > >supplementing tags that are alredy there and known to be correct. > > Lifehacker just had an article on this - > http://lifehacker.com/5511473/start-to-finish-guide-to-whipping-your-musics-metadata-into-shape Looks like a useful read, thanks. -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: Steve Firth on 9 Apr 2010 18:12 zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > They are - but I thought MetaX was video only? The website is struggling > right now (perhaps it's my work connection) so I'll look later. It's promoted for video but works with all MP4 files.
From: David Kennedy on 10 Apr 2010 01:17 zoara wrote: > David Kennedy<davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> wrote: > >> Didn't MP3Rage allow you to do that sort of thing, either singly or in >> batches? > > I'm happy enough with the manual tag editing in iTunes. Just want to > avoid the slog of manually editing each of a few hundred CDs. > What I'd like is something that will work with the CDDB data base without wanting to do a direct import - I have loads of tracks imported from vinyl/tape that iTunes won't look at... -- David Kennedy http://www.anindianinexile.com
From: David Kennedy on 10 Apr 2010 01:35
David Kennedy wrote: > zoara wrote: >> David Kennedy<davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> wrote: >> >>> Didn't MP3Rage allow you to do that sort of thing, either singly or in >>> batches? >> >> I'm happy enough with the manual tag editing in iTunes. Just want to >> avoid the slog of manually editing each of a few hundred CDs. >> > What I'd like is something that will work with the CDDB data base > without wanting to do a direct import - I have loads of tracks imported > from vinyl/tape that iTunes won't look at... > I've just downloaded MediaRage <http://www.chaoticsoftware.com/ProductPages/MediaRage.html> to see if that might do the job... -- David Kennedy http://www.anindianinexile.com |