-Brading Software Message Board
+--Forum: Mp3/Tag Studio Suggestions
+---Topic: Online audio recognition started by Adrijan
Posted by: Adrijan on Mar. 11 2008,18:06
Can you put this function in future version of program.
Update mp3 tags based on online checking Gracenote MusicID (audio recognition, audio fingerprint) like Winamp 5.5 auto-tagger function powered by Gracenote, but with more advanced options :
- mass set tags e.g. ONLY set <genre> and/or <year> and/or <tracknum> and/or ...
- mass set tags with <album> ONLY if mp3 file does not have this tag
- mass set tags with all other tags ONLY if mp3 file does not have this tag
... because Gracenote MusicID service is not 100% precise but sometimes very very useful tool
See Winamp Auto Tagger screenshots ...
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Posted by: poppinoff on April 04 2008,16:39
I have to agree with you Adrijan.
To quote from the main page: "The complete suite for managing your Mp3:s! You will never again need to keep track of that bunch of small utils to solve your mp3 problems and general managing, this is an all-in-one program and also better and easier to use than practically every separate util that you will ever find! Well, you be the judge. "
Years ago I bought a copy of the program because I liked some of its features. At the time I had to use other programs to download album information; with the fair expectation that MP3TagStudio would catch up with the rest of the pack. I'm rather disappointed in that I still have to use other utilities in conjunction with this.
If I was currently in the market for an all-in-one mp3 utility I'm afraid MP3TagStudio wouldn't warrant a second look, it's too dated.
Don't get me wrong, it does what it does very well; just needs to be expanded. ie CDDB support and handling of other music formats.
btw. the Yahoo mailing list hasn't been notifying of updates.
Posted by: trikki on June 06 2008,12:03
I'll have to second (third?) this suggestion. This would be a really useful feature for getting all those "year"-tags right. Year-tags are the most common ones that are missing from files copied from friends. All other info is usually correct, or retrieveable from folder or file names.
I have to agree that Gracenote database is not perfect, and I personally would not trust it for tagging artist, title or album, but the year-tag is different. To most people it is not very critical information, but a "nice to have", and a close guess is better than no information at all.
Currently my personal work flow is:
1. Copy some new albums from friends
2. Make a duplicate of the copied set
3. Retrieve tag info with Winamp Auto-Tagger to the duplicate
4. Create tags to original with mp3ts based on file/folder names
5. Run a little self-made utility that simply copies the year-tag from the duplicate set to the original set in each corresponding file.
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