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Nov 4
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MP3 tag editing
If you download many podcasts, you’ll often find that some of them aren’t tagged properly, and so don’t show up in your MP3 player where they should. There are two ways you can deal with this. First is the manual method with a graphical application. My recommendation goes to MP3TAG. It is a highly flexible system which can handle all the tag fields you’d need to handle, including cover art. It can also fill in tag information from systematically named files, and vice versa, as well as pulling tag data from Amazon and the CD internet database. When I was organising my 1,800+ MP3 collection, I was able to tag and rename every file with a ridiculous amount of ease.
Manual tag editing is all well and good for occasional jobs, but when you need see to podcasts that your computer gets every week, it can get repeative and time consuming. Therefore you need an automated method. The best way to automate a task is to find a command line tool for which you can write a script and execute on your operating system’s scheduler.
This is were ID3 Mass Tagger comes in. This is a really handy little utility, pointed out to me by fellow blogger, Pokeh. Fortunately the author makes versions of this for most operating systems. I run a script on my Ubuntu laptop for synchronising my podcasts with my mobile phone, and I’ve been able to incorporate this into that script to correct all my genre tags.
MP3Tag in action
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Tip of the week – 30th March 2009
Nov 04, 2009 @ 10:43:02
I have used Tagscanner before for this purpose, it can use names to produce tags or vice versa. This was good when I had to copy my music from a creative mp3 player which had obscured all the names but which still had the tags.
What I really want is a program which can sync the file mp3 tags with the info in itunes library, so I can keep all the data if the library files gets corrupted (which has happened once, and I only had an old back-up)
Nov 04, 2009 @ 12:54:51
Hi Dom,
Afraid I can’t help you with iTunes, it’s those sorts of problems that make me steer clear of it.
Nov 04, 2009 @ 20:40:05
Actually I find it a good piece of SW in general, just this one thing that is a bit annoying, what do you use as an mp3 library?
Nov 04, 2009 @ 21:10:53
Well, I used MP3TAG to edit the ID3′s of my entire collection, which allows me to use any library based application, and to change to any other whenever I want.
I currently use both Songbird and RhythmBox.
I always say “use what works best for you”, but I avoid Apple software because it always leads to vendor lock-in one way or another.