Re: Re: New Feature

 

Martin - 

Thanks for that explanation. I use Discogs quite a lot, particularly for
dividing up live albums when the tracks aren't so obvious in Audacity,
because many of the track listings include track lengths. But, with
hundreds of albums on my hards drives there's no way I can go through
every one that doesn't have Tags, look each up on Discogs and have
Mp3Tag pull in the track titles and make Tags. 

So, if Mp3Tag can use the information that I have so laboriously entered
manually over the years to generate the tags then that's what I'll ask
it to do (I've not even downloaded the programme yet) as long as I can
point it at, say, my directory of artists beginning with "A" and let it
it do its stuff. 

It's been a really interesting discussion and thanks to all who have
contributed. As soon as I have some time I'll sit down and have a play. 

Ian. 

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On 30-01-2017 22:31, [email protected] [EAC] wrote: 

> Two disclaimers:
> 1. I'm catching up on the list, so it's possible someone else
> already addressed this. If so, consider this my +1 vote. ;-)
> 2. I haven't used TagScanner in a loooong time so it might cover
> the exact same use case I describe below.
> That said: onwards ho! ;-)
> 
> [email protected]:
>>
>> Thanks. Most of my flac files are created from CDs using data that
>> EAC finds on the web. But I also have a lot of vinyl and cassettes
>> that I have ripped to flac using Audacity for which I enter the track
>> titles myself. I mostly use a Sonos system that can read the track
>> titles from a NAS drive or hard disc but I also use WinAmp a bit and
>> have an Ipod for the car. The files I've ripped myself don't have any
>> tags at the moment.
>>
> For the above scenario , Mp3tag has a very nifty feature I use all the
> time: you can simply look up the album title on Discogs and it will
> pull in all the metadata - even if track lengths do not match.
> 
> An aside: IMHO, discogs.com is simply the best free tag source
> database out there. freedb.org and musicbrainz.org are fine, but very
> spotty compared to discogs.com. Never used commercial ones (e.g.,
> Gracenote) so your mileage may vary.
> 
>> I've always assumed that programmes such as Tagscanner and Mp3tag
>> use the track lengths to identify the parent CD;
>>
> They do but it's not strictly necessary, see paragraph above.
> 
>> 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.
>>
> Never used Tune Up but if it's based on simple heuristics (e.g.
> detecting leading digits as track numbers, hyphens as field
> separators, etc.): Mp3tag can do the same with some very simple
> parametric expressions. But I assume TagScanner can do the same.
> 
>> 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?
>>
> See above - Mp3tag and (again, I assume) TagScanner can do both.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Martin 
> 
 

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