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Phenax
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 Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 10:36 pm Post subject: ID3 Tagging |
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| Hey guys, does anyone know a good 'batch tagger' so I can quickly ID3 tag a few hundred MP3's? I tried easytag, and it corrupted half of what it tagged.. sigh. |
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timeBandit
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 2:07 am Post subject: |
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I like Audio Tag Tool (media-sound/tagtool), which has a nice GUI, good features and seems to handle batch updates well. I've not tagged batches of more than a few dozen files but it's never hiccuped or damaged any.
For CLI tools, there's media-sound/id3ed or media-sound/id3tool. Experiment with those on backups first, I haven't tried them in batch mode (and still can't decide which one's "list genres" output I prefer  ).
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Phenax
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 3:28 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks, I'm quite tired right now but I'll check them out tomorrow. |
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jesso
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 3:08 pm Post subject: Re: ID3 Tagging |
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Hey,
you could do something like:
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#/bin/bash
$OPTIONS="-a album -r artist"
find Media/Music/ -name *.mp3 | while read song
do
id3tool $OPTIONS $song
done
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You'll need
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esearch id3tool
[ Results for search key : id3tool ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* media-sound/id3tool
Latest version available: 1.2
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 112 kB
Homepage: http://nekohako.xware.cx/id3tool/
Description: A command line utility for easy manipulation of the ID3 tags present in MPEG Layer 3 audio files
License: GPL-2
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Change it to suite you. Just an example. Read the id3tool manpage. Note that this only works if you want common entries for all the mp3's you pass to it.
| Phenax wrote: | | Hey guys, does anyone know a good 'batch tagger' so I can quickly ID3 tag a few hundred MP3's? I tried easytag, and it corrupted half of what it tagged.. sigh. |
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suicidal_orange_II
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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I use easytag, its gtk based so its not for you if your a kde person 
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samsari
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| Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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Well, I also used easytag and found it was great for me. But, sadly, it has now started corrupting half the mp3s it tags (they end up as files 0 bytes in size).
Does anyone know either:
a) why it's doing this and how I can fix it?
b) what I can use instead? |
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yngwin
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| Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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| suicidal_orange_II wrote: | | I use easytag, its gtk based so its not for you if your a kde person |
Nonsense! I'm a "KDE person" but I use easytag. It works fine, after some configuration.
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fjf3
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| Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Corruption. Could it be you are running out of space? |
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VoVaN
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| Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm using easytag as well, it works just fine and don't have any corrupted files... |
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samsari
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No, it can't be that. I have plenty of free space. And strangely, it's only about half the files that get corrupted. And always the same files too...
I will try something musicbrainz enabled like picard or kid3, although I'm having some weird segfault problem at the moment. I wonder if that's related to this easytag error at all :/ |
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konni
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what program can i use to change filenames to the names included in the id2 tag?
Thanks |
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jonnevers
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| samsari wrote: | No, it can't be that. I have plenty of free space. And strangely, it's only about half the files that get corrupted. And always the same files too...
I will try something musicbrainz enabled like picard or kid3, although I'm having some weird segfault problem at the moment. I wonder if that's related to this easytag error at all :/ |
it could be those .mp3 files themselves that are the problem... have you checked them for virus's? I've heard that itunes (for instance) embeds cover art into mp3's it loads...
I <3 easytag though, it's file rename and tag auto-populate are amazing batch tools.
check the media, maybe try running them through the id3* command line toools. |
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