Fixing tags

[Bill Moseley]

Does anyone know of a tool (on linux) that can help assign tags to my
various flac/ogg/mp3 files that are not tagged? I have quite a few
files that show up as "No Artist" or "No Album" in Slimserver, but
it's very obvious from the file name what the artist, song and often
album are.

I'm imagining a tool that will generate a text file with best guesses
and then I could edit and then use that to update/create the tags.

I also have quite a few partially tagged files. For example, I was
just looking at one that says:

Title: Sunshine of Your Love
Artist: Cream
Album: No Album
Genre: Other

which would not be too hard to find a few suggestions for the Album
and Genre, I'd think.

Thanks,



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Bill Moseley
moseley (AT) hank (DOT) org

[Jason Voegele]

On Sunday 20 March 2005 12:19 am, Bill Moseley wrote:
> Does anyone know of a tool (on linux) that can help assign tags to my
> various flac/ogg/mp3 files that are not tagged? I have quite a few
> files that show up as "No Artist" or "No Album" in Slimserver, but
> it's very obvious from the file name what the artist, song and often
> album are.

Two such tools that I've found for Debian are:

Cantus : Gnome tool to mass-rename/tag mp3 and ogg files
Cantus is an easy to use tool for tagging and renaming MP3 and
OGG/Vorbis files. It has many features including mass tagging
and renaming of MP3s, the ability to generate a tag out of the
filename, filter definitions for renaming, recursive actions,
CDDB (Freedb) lookup (no CD needed), copy between ID3V1 and
ID3V2 tags, and a lot more.

id3ren: id3 tagger and renamer
Tool used to rename batches of mpeg3 files by reading the ID3 tag at the
end of the file which contains the song name, artist, album, year, and a
comment.
The secondary function of id3ren is a tagger, which can create, modify, or
remove ID3 tags. The id3 fields can be set on the command line, entered
interactively, or "guessed" from the path and the filename.

I imagine these tools are also available for other GNU/Linux distributions.

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Jason Voegele

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[Bill Moseley]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 10:30:11AM -0500, Jason Voegele wrote:
> Two such tools that I've found for Debian are:
>
> Cantus : Gnome tool to mass-rename/tag mp3 and ogg files
[...]
> id3ren: id3 tagger and renamer

Thanks, I'll check those out.

Is there code in slimserver to read tags that could be reused?
Since I'm trying to fix multiple file format tags for use with
Slimserver it would be nice to be able to pass in a file name and have
slimserver code return me the tags that it extracted. That might help
me find the files with missing info and to correctly tag files.

Also, is the database schema documented someplace?


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Bill Moseley
moseley (AT) hank (DOT) org

[Michael Amster]

>Two such tools that I've found for Debian are:
>
>Cantus : Gnome tool to mass-rename/tag mp3 and ogg files
> Cantus is an easy to use tool for tagging and renaming MP3 and
> OGG/Vorbis files. It has many features including mass tagging
> and renaming of MP3s, the ability to generate a tag out of the
> filename, filter definitions for renaming, recursive actions,
> CDDB (Freedb) lookup (no CD needed), copy between ID3V1 and
> ID3V2 tags, and a lot more.
>
>id3ren: id3 tagger and renamer
> Tool used to rename batches of mpeg3 files by reading the ID3 tag at the
> end of the file which contains the song name, artist, album, year, and a
> comment.
> The secondary function of id3ren is a tagger, which can create, modify, or
> remove ID3 tags. The id3 fields can be set on the command line, entered
> interactively, or "guessed" from the path and the filename.
>
>I imagine these tools are also available for other GNU/Linux distributions.
>
>
>
I was looking into Cantus for a RH9 box, but it appears that one needs
the gtkmm and libglade-mm stuff as a requirement and there are no easy
RPMs or binaries for these in RH9. I can take a look at using the
Fedora Core 3 versions, but that may get ugly.

-MA

[spblat]

May I suggest MP3TAG. After yet another search for the perfect MP3 ID3 tagger, I've settled on it for the time being.

http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

I've been using it to consolodate genres in my 11,000 track collection. After a few hours' work I'm making solid progress. It's a free Windows tool. It has a very nice interface with many sophisticated features. It is capable of attempting to match a group of MP3's against the freedb.org database. This doesn't always work, but when it does it's like magic.

A program I have more experience with is MP3/Tag Studio, http://www.magnusbrading.com/mp3ts/ . I have been using it for years, but based on recent experience I'm leaving it for MP3TAG.

[rramstad]

Easytag is quite common, has some powerful features (like rename files based on tags, as well as the more obvious tag based on filename) and does both FLAC and mp3...