Re: Re: New Feature

 

Thanks Lin - I'll have a play and see what happens. Ian. 

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On 30-01-2017 16:04, Lin Sprague [email protected] [EAC] wrote: 

> On 01/30/2017 10:32 AM, Ian McPherson [email protected] [EAC] 
> wrote:
> 
>> I've always assumed that programmes such as Tagscanner and Mp3tag use
>> the track lengths to identify the parent CD; of course those I've ripped
>> myself will not correspond to the "proper" CD track lengths although
>> I've heard that Tune Up somehow reads the music to assign file names.
> 
> I know nothing about Tagscanner - I've never even heard of it before - 
> but what you ask above isn't quite what Mp3tag is about. Mp3tag lets you 
> edit tags. You can take information from file names and paths and insert 
> it into embedded tag fields. You can reformat existing tags, or transfer 
> tags from one field to another. You can do all these as mass operations 
> on many files at once. It's very powerful... but to take full advantage 
> of that power you have to understand things like variables and regular 
> expressions.
> 
>> Each album is in its own folder titled <Artist> - <Album Title> and each
>> track is a single flac (or mp3) file. Are these programmes able to use
>> the information that is already there or do they need to access the web?
> 
> Yes, Mp3tag will happily use that file information. While it can 
> retrieve tag info from places like amazon.com, that takes some manual 
> intervention and isn't suitable for mass tagging operations.
> 
> You should try it out and see if it does what you want. It's free, so 
> there's nothing to lose but much to gain.
> 
> http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
> 
> 
 

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