Author Topic: Another mp3 tag conundrum (Read 1079 times)

Quixoticish · **on:** June 19, 2008, 11:39:08 AM

Another mp3 tag conundrum

on: June 19, 2008, 11:39:08 AM

Ive got over 10,000 mp3s to tag and MediaMonkey has messed up half of my tags. I need something that I can set up automatically to go through every file, and copy one field, lets say the date, from the ID3v1 tag to the ID3v2 tag then delete the ID3v1 tag entirely. If it could do this with APEv2 tags and copy them to ID3v2 as well it would be fantastic.

If I cant find anything to do this its going to be a case of going through them all manually in winamp album by album, and itll take absolutely ages.

bear · **Reply #1 on:** June 19, 2008, 11:58:45 AM

Another mp3 tag conundrum

Reply #1 on: June 19, 2008, 11:58:45 AM

Again Foobar might do the job

http://www.foobar2000.org/FAQ.html#tagging_files

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Note that you can mass-edit tags of a group of track by opening the Properties dialog on multiple items.

M3ta7h3ad · **Reply #2 on:** June 19, 2008, 13:10:50 PM

Another mp3 tag conundrum

Reply #2 on: June 19, 2008, 13:10:50 PM

Quote from: Chris H

Ive got over 10,000 mp3s to tag and MediaMonkey has messed up half of my tags. I need something that I can set up automatically to go through every file, and copy one field, lets say the date, from the ID3v1 tag to the ID3v2 tag then delete the ID3v1 tag entirely. If it could do this with APEv2 tags and copy them to ID3v2 as well it would be fantastic.

If I cant find anything to do this its going to be a case of going through them all manually in winamp album by album, and itll take absolutely ages.

I used picard from audioscrobbler/musicbrainz with its audio fingerprinting tech to automatically fill in the details for 3600 mp3s just this weekend, took sodding ages! but it worked quite well.

Eggtastico · **Reply #3 on:** June 19, 2008, 13:37:56 PM

Another mp3 tag conundrum

Reply #3 on: June 19, 2008, 13:37:56 PM

Quote from: Chris H

Ive got over 10,000 mp3s to tag and MediaMonkey has messed up half of my tags. I need something that I can set up automatically to go through every file, and copy one field, lets say the date, from the ID3v1 tag to the ID3v2 tag then delete the ID3v1 tag entirely. If it could do this with APEv2 tags and copy them to ID3v2 as well it would be fantastic.

If I cant find anything to do this its going to be a case of going through them all manually in winamp album by album, and itll take absolutely ages.

i did mention elswher that mediamonkey does that. Just deleted all mine & started again.

Quixoticish · **Reply #4 on:** June 19, 2008, 13:57:39 PM

Re:Another mp3 tag conundrum

Reply #4 on: June 19, 2008, 13:57:39 PM

Ive looked at the suggestions but it appears as though Ill just have to work through them one by one as you did Egg. Lesson learned, stay away from MediaMonkey.

Eggtastico · **Reply #5 on:** June 19, 2008, 14:03:24 PM

Re:Another mp3 tag conundrum

Reply #5 on: June 19, 2008, 14:03:24 PM

Quote from: Chris H

Ive looked at the suggestions but it appears as though Ill just have to work through them one by one as you did Egg. Lesson learned, stay away from MediaMonkey.

I didnt work through them. I deleted & re-aquiered

Quixoticish · **Reply #6 on:** June 19, 2008, 14:27:27 PM

Re:Another mp3 tag conundrum

Reply #6 on: June 19, 2008, 14:27:27 PM

Quote from: Eggtastico

Quote from: Chris H
Ive looked at the suggestions but it appears as though Ill just have to work through them one by one as you did Egg. Lesson learned, stay away from MediaMonkey.

I didnt work through them. I deleted & re-aquiered

Mine are all ripped so that isnt really an option. Besides, when you do download mp3s the tags are all bizarrely done by someone who clearly cant string a sentence together in English. (Im sort of an obsessive/compulsive about my mp3 tags).

XEntity · **Reply #7 on:** June 19, 2008, 19:21:04 PM

Re:Another mp3 tag conundrum

Reply #7 on: June 19, 2008, 19:21:04 PM

Wouldnt M3ta7h3ads suggestion, solve that problem, using the audio fingerprinting?

Bear... Do you own shares/work for foobar? -)

bear · **Reply #8 on:** June 19, 2008, 19:28:06 PM

Re:Another mp3 tag conundrum

Reply #8 on: June 19, 2008, 19:28:06 PM

Quote from: XEntity

Wouldnt M3ta7h3ads suggestion, solve that problem, using the audio fingerprinting?

Bear... Do you own shares/work for foobar? -)

Nope but I have used it for a long time and think it is very good except for iPod, it really is worth a try it is made buy people who also made winamp and is sorta like VLC but for audio

Quixoticish · **Reply #9 on:** June 19, 2008, 22:23:58 PM

Re:Another mp3 tag conundrum

Reply #9 on: June 19, 2008, 22:23:58 PM

Bear, I bit the bullet and plumped for Foobar and after a bit of reading around the more advanced tagging features it worked a charm and there was only a bit of manual labour involved. Unfortunately for some reason the program wont open anything with a non standard character in the title (Motörhead, Lars Winnerbäck, Týr etc). Ive googled around a bit but I cant find this mentioned anywhere as a common bug so I assume its something at my end, either a problem on my rig or something to do with the way the files are tagged?

If I can solve this Ill replace Winamp with Foobar, its quite intuitive and seems much better at handling a large music library than Winamp.

bear · **Reply #10 on:** June 20, 2008, 01:10:59 AM

Re:Another mp3 tag conundrum

Reply #10 on: June 20, 2008, 01:10:59 AM

Quote from: Chris H

Bear, I bit the bullet and plumped for Foobar and after a bit of reading around the more advanced tagging features it worked a charm and there was only a bit of manual labour involved. Unfortunately for some reason the program wont open anything with a non standard character in the title (Motörhead, Lars Winnerbäck, Týr etc). Ive googled around a bit but I cant find this mentioned anywhere as a common bug so I assume its something at my end, either a problem on my rig or something to do with the way the files are tagged?

If I can solve this Ill replace Winamp with Foobar, its quite intuitive and seems much better at handling a large music library than Winamp.

I am at work now but I do think I have music with such characters (swedish å, ä and ö) and have not run into anything that would not open.

Clock'd 0Ne · **Reply #11 on:** June 20, 2008, 01:16:48 AM

Re:Another mp3 tag conundrum

Reply #11 on: June 20, 2008, 01:16:48 AM

I use Foobar and Ive never run into any strangeness with extended characters either. Im glad it sorted your tagging problem though, Ive never tried the tagging features on it, I might have to give them a try.

Quixoticish · **Reply #12 on:** June 20, 2008, 02:09:27 AM

Re:Another mp3 tag conundrum

Reply #12 on: June 20, 2008, 02:09:27 AM

Quote from: Clockd 0Ne

I use Foobar and Ive never run into any strangeness with extended characters either. Im glad it sorted your tagging problem though, Ive never tried the tagging features on it, I might have to give them a try.

The only thing it doesnt do that I want is go and grab the album covers off the interweb. Fortunately there was an alpha build plug-in floating around that Im using to do the job. Until then Ive set it to show the good old horrific standby cover if I havent already snaffled the correct album art. If anything will prompt me into immediate action Im sure itll be the zip zap rap.

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