Have over 100 GB of 'unsorted' music - need to mass-tag it all - what is recommended?

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Posted by ali92 on Aug-03-2008 13:59:

Have over 100 GB of 'unsorted' music - need to mass-tag it all - what is recommended?

So basically I have a bunch of stuff in one folder (mainly albums) and been fiddling around with MusicBrainz' Picard Tagger to try auto-tag the mess, but it often guesses wrong as it is too specific (say a bunch of FLACs are in a folder. When Picard scans the files, it splits the set up, linking some files to one geographical release & others to a different one). Singles/Maxis are a mess sorting with this program because usually it will correctly link half the tracks and the rest go in totally unrelated compilation albums (like Now Dance 96) & such.

On HydrogenAudio, there was talk of something called PerfectMeta which is used by dbPowerAmp & uses multiple databases but PerfectMeta is available only on physical CDs, not files created after the fact.

Does anyone else here use MusicBrainz/Picard Tagger and actually got the software to work how they want it? Perhaps I don't know how to use this software for the purpose I intend to?

Perhaps my needs are too odd? (I want this structure for artist-albums/EPs/singles/Maxis: ...\Artist\Date\Album\DiscNumber-TrackNumber - Title.ext, with fields like Date & DiscNumber left out if N/A.)

[for compilations, I want just ...\Album Artist if different from Various Artists - Album\DiscNumber-TrackNumber - Track Artist - Title]

Posted by Fibonacci on Aug-07-2008 03:34:

i use TagScanner software, mp3tag is good too but requires registration/purchase after 30 days. it'll pull info from the filename or id3 tag whichever you choose with %field% functionality, as long as there are delimiters (ie m.i.k.e. - club love mix.mp3, the "-" is the delimiter which separates and distinguishes fields)

good luck

Posted by Orko on Aug-07-2008 21:11:

Eagson.

I have been using it for years, and with over 500GB in mp3, it has served me well.

Posted by Vogon on Aug-08-2008 23:53:

I am using Media Tagger by Ladislav Dufek.
It is freeware and does a good job of tagging based on file name.

Posted by christauff on Aug-11-2008 13:53:

quote:
Originally posted by Fibonacci
i use TagScanner software, mp3tag is good too but requires registration/purchase after 30 days. it'll pull info from the filename or id3 tag whichever you choose with %field% functionality, as long as there are delimiters (ie m.i.k.e. - club love mix.mp3, the "-" is the delimiter which separates and distinguishes fields)

good luck

I use Mp3Tag, but just wanted to clarify that it's free. There is no enforced registration or fee to use it after 30 days (of course you might want to give the guy a donation if you like it).

It also has plugin support for Discogs, which makes it superior in my opinion to many other tagging software programs.