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From:
Nicholas Bolibruch
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Date:
Sun, 08 May 2005 22:38:49 -0400
Subject:
Re: [idm] MP3 tagging
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Adam Piontek wrote:
quoted 16 lines On May 8, 2005, at 10:21 AM, Irene McC wrote:> On May 8, 2005, at 10:21 AM, Irene McC wrote: > >> What is a good (free) MP3 tagging app? > > > I use iTunes. > > > > ...sorry, somebody had to, I figured it may as well be me this time. > > ;-) > > -Adam > >
I use MusicBrainz, which is a GPL tagging package. It makes a fingerprint of your mp3s and will access a community run database to determine the track name. It will then sort it for you by Artist->Album->Track # - Track Name , or however you want it to sort. It will fill out all the ID3 tag information w/ appropriate information, even w/ the genre. This is great if all your mp3s are 128kbps or higher, as lower bitrates tend to give false positives and can lead to misidentified tracks. It will provide a percentage of accuracy in the match, so when the percentage match is less than 75% (or any amount you pick) it will request that you identify the track manually. There is a beta Linux client available too, but I can't remember the name of it at this moment. The linux iTunes clone amaroK has built in support for MusicBrainz tagged tracks and will show the MusicBrainz icon to show the track was tagged by MusicBrainz. This is the piece of software I had waited years to be released, since it is especially good at identifying tracks that have corrupted track names and information. http://www.musicbrainz.org/ --Nick/afxgrin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org