25 Eylül 2008 Perşembe

MP3 Tagging – The Easy Way

I have over 4000 mp3 on my hard disk. And i dont like burning mp3s to DVD with missing tags.

Most of my mp3s come from offline satellite download and they came as

193.251.135.116_08C9A07485__66477.mp3

You have to rename them one by one according to their tags. But what if some dont have tags.

There is an excellent solution for both problems: MusicBrainz Picard. It uses acoustic fingerprint and existing tags to identify your mp3s.

How to use it:

First adjust the program to your needs.

I enabled embedding cover images to tags and renaming file names.

Under 'View' enable 'File Browser'.
Select a directory or files and drag them to the Unmatched Files folder.

image

Start with opening individual music files or directories by dragging them into the left-hand pane. The tagger will read the metadata from each of the files and unless they have been tagged before, the files will be deposited into the "Unmatched files" folder. Files that have been tagged before and contain the MusicBrainz track identifier will be opened up as releases in the right-hand pane.

Once the tagger finishes processing the files, press the "Cluster" button (white square with 'clusters' on them). This will cause the tagger to attempt to group the files into album clusters by examining the metadata read from the files and clustering files that appear to belong to the same album. Files that are not matched into album clusters will remain in the "Unmatched files" folder. In future the tagger will automatically cluster the files when it has finished reading the metadata from the files.

If your existing files do not have an album tag, click on unmatched files to select all remaining files then click scan. All the matching tags will be shown on right pane. You only have to select the matching files and click save.

How to tags files with picard

Advanced tutorial

Musicbrainz server currently has info of 7138615 tracks.

You can also use album art plugin to add album arts in tags.

If you use winamp, it has a auto-tag feature which uses Gracenote database to find track information. You can access it by right clicking on any track / send to / auto tag.

image

Sphere: Related Content Digg It! Add to del.icio.us Stumble This

0 yorum: