Re: Re: New Feature
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Thanks Both for this further explanation. I'll give it a go. Ian. --- _UK. H: +44 (0) 1242 519990. M: +44 (0) 7887 636349_ DE. H: +49 (0) 69 8383 4602. M: +49 (0) 175 987 5433 (Laila) On 06-02-2017 07:02, Kit Kimes kitkimes-/[email protected] [EAC] wrote: > I use VLC for all my audio and video playback. It works > with almost every format that audio and video comes in. > > The feature I use occasionally that relates to this discussion is a > feature under tools. If you play a song in VLC and go to > tools, you will have a choice of 'Media Information'. You > will find a button on that page marked 'Fingerprint'. If you > click on that button it will go out somewhere and show you > a list of artist and song that fit the profile. It is very good at > finding newer stuff that is available on CD. > > If you choose one of the options, it will fill in the ID3 tag > information for you. It is not very good on older music. I > have a lot of big band music and other music from the 1940s > and 1950s that it has a problem finding a match. I suspect > that the problem may be that the music might have been > recorded from records or tapes and thus aren't in whatever > database they check in. > > Kit Kimes > Oswego, IL USA > > ------------------------- > FROM: "Lin Sprague [email protected] [EAC]" <[email protected]> > > 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/ > > Links: ------ [1] https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/EAC/conversations/messages/27187;_ylc=X3oDMTJwYmU5MGpqBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzI1NTc3OARncnBzcElkAzE3MDUwMDc3MDkEbXNnSWQDMjcxODcEc2VjA2Z0cgRzbGsDcnBseQRzdGltZQMxNDg2Mzg5Njcz?act=reply&messageNum=27187 [2] https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/EAC/conversations/newtopic;_ylc=X3oDMTJkZG5iaGxjBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzI1NTc3OARncnBzcElkAzE3MDUwMDc3MDkEc2VjA2Z0cgRzbGsDbnRwYwRzdGltZQMxNDg2Mzg5Njcz [3] https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/EAC/conversations/topics/1210;_ylc=X3oDMTM0czN0YWlhBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzI1NTc3OARncnBzcElkAzE3MDUwMDc3MDkEbXNnSWQDMjcxODcEc2VjA2Z0cgRzbGsDdnRwYwRzdGltZQMxNDg2Mzg5NjczBHRwY0lkAzEyMTA- [4] https://yho.com/1wwmgg [5] http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ [6] https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/EAC/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJkY2owaTh2BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzI1NTc3OARncnBzcElkAzE3MDUwMDc3MDkEc2VjA3Z0bARzbGsDdmdocARzdGltZQMxNDg2Mzg5Njcz [7] https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/EAC/members/all;_ylc=X3oDMTJlcDI5bmFkBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzI1NTc3OARncnBzcElkAzE3MDUwMDc3MDkEc2VjA3Z0bARzbGsDdm1icnMEc3RpbWUDMTQ4NjM4OTY3Mw-- [8] https://groups.yahoo.com/neo;_ylc=X3oDMTJjOTkwOGF1BF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzI1NTc3OARncnBzcElkAzE3MDUwMDc3MDkEc2VjA2Z0cgRzbGsDZ2ZwBHN0aW1lAzE0ODYzODk2NzM- [9] https://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/groups/details.html [10] https://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/