Basic EasyTag 101
John Graber <[email protected]> Thu, 19 May 2005 08:54:08 -0500
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Not to turn this into an EasyTag mailing list, but...
Don't feel stupid. I felt the interface for EasyTag was not very
intuitive as well. Just to get you going in the right direction, I
think what you want is this:
Say you have you stuff organized as
/MyMP3s/genre/artist/album/tracknumber-trackname
Select all of the files for which you want to fill the tags.
You use the easytag 'Tag and File Name scan' feature in Scanner > Fill
Tags and put something like this in the text field
/MyMP3s/%g/%a/%b/%n-%t
Then click the scan button. Your files should turn red (they may have
been red text in the first place because easytag likes to update tags to
a given standard). Then click the save button (floppy disk) and all
tags will be updated based on the folder/file naming.
I use the reverse of this to reorganize or import mp3's into my netjuke
filesystem.
Someone made the point of saying that ID3 tags offer data portability.
I can not possibly agree more. I maintain my ID3 tags religiously and
it has saved my ass a LOT of work several times. Of course, I am big on
data portability. I'm an Oracle DBA. ;)
Good Luck!
P.S. Don't try this on a ton of files at once until you have it down
pat! It could majorly hose everything for you.
[email protected] wrote:
>On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 05:47:27PM -0400, Jeremy Chapman wrote:
>
>
>
>>http://easytag.sourceforge.net/ The best by far. You will never need
>>another tool. Amazing CDDB guessing of albums...
>>
>>
>
>I feel like a real blockhead here.
>
>
>I've installed and run easytag, but it's a gui interface that I can't figure
>out for my purposes.
>
>
>My initial complaint with netjuke was that it just used whatever genre was
>in the id3 tag for importing. I wanted to know if I could get netjuke
>to appreciate the fact that I have music sorted into genre/artist/album
>format.
>
>I was hoping that with easytag, I would find a command-line program
>that would simply (recursively) write whatever tag netjuke needs in order
>to respect the organization structure I have. It's not obvious to me how
>to get easytag to do so, though.
>
>
>Am I not understanding easytag? Am I not understanding netjuke?
>
>
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<tt>Not to turn this into an EasyTag mailing list, but...<br>
<br>
Don't feel stupid. I felt the interface for EasyTag was not very
intuitive as well. Just to get you going in the right direction, I
think what you want is this:<br>
<br>
Say you have you stuff organized as
/MyMP3s/genre/artist/album/tracknumber-trackname<br>
<br>
Select all of the files for which you want to fill the tags.<br>
<br>
You use the easytag 'Tag and File Name scan' feature in Scanner >
Fill Tags and put something like this in the text field<br>
<br>
/MyMP3s/%g/%a/%b/%n-%t<br>
<br>
Then click the scan button. Your files should turn red (they may have
been red text in the first place because easytag likes to update tags
to a given standard). Then click the save button (floppy disk) and all
tags will be updated based on the folder/file naming.<br>
<br>
I use the reverse of this to reorganize or import mp3's into my netjuke
filesystem.<br>
<br>
Someone made the point of saying that ID3 tags offer data portability.
I can not possibly agree more. I maintain my ID3 tags religiously and
it has saved my ass a LOT of work several times. Of course, I am big
on data portability. I'm an Oracle DBA. ;)<br>
<br>
Good Luck!<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
P.S. Don't try this on a ton of files at once until you have it down
pat! It could majorly hose everything for you.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 05:47:27PM -0400, Jeremy Chapman wrote:
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<pre wrap=""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://easytag.sourceforge.net/">http://easytag.sourceforge.net/</a> The best by far. You will never need
another tool. Amazing CDDB guessing of albums...
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I feel like a real blockhead here.
I've installed and run easytag, but it's a gui interface that I can't figure
out for my purposes.
My initial complaint with netjuke was that it just used whatever genre was
in the id3 tag for importing. I wanted to know if I could get netjuke
to appreciate the fact that I have music sorted into genre/artist/album
format.
I was hoping that with easytag, I would find a command-line program
that would simply (recursively) write whatever tag netjuke needs in order
to respect the organization structure I have. It's not obvious to me how
to get easytag to do so, though.
Am I not understanding easytag? Am I not understanding netjuke?
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