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From: zoara on 8 Apr 2010 11:12 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. 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). Cheers, -zoara-
From: David Kennedy on 8 Apr 2010 11:16 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. > 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? Didn't MP3Rage allow you to do that sort of thing, either singly or in batches? -- David Kennedy http://www.anindianinexile.com
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 8 Apr 2010 13:16 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 Cheers - Jaimie -- "If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it for themselves." - Joseph Lane Kirkland
From: Steve Firth on 9 Apr 2010 02:37 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. If your music files are iTunes (only) then MetaX is good for what you want. Otherwise I use Musorg for mp3/wma files. TBH iTunes has better tag editing facilities, particularly when it comes to album art than most stand-alone editors.
From: zoara on 9 Apr 2010 17:56
Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote: > 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. > > If your music files are iTunes (only) then MetaX is good for what you > want. 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. > TBH iTunes has better > tag editing facilities, particularly when it comes to album art than > most stand-alone editors. Righto. I'd just hoped to automate things a little. But now I have a few things to try out - hopefully save me a handful of minutes... -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm |