[sclug] MP3 Ogg and ID3 Tags

[Tom Chance]

Hi Scott,

On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 12:57, Scott Rixon wrote:
> I have a massive amount of music kicking around my hard disks. Some of
> which are MP3 some of the more recent stuff is Ogg.
>
> The early MP3 stuff doesn't have the correct (any) ID3 tags. Which is
> incredibly annoying!
>
> What I want do do is catalogue the entire collection. Then go through
> and put in the ID3 tags for the ones that are missing. I then can search
> and play the one I want.
>
> Any thoughts on the best way? I don't even know if you can edit the ID3
> tags?

Most good music players will have the facility for you to do this. Juk, for 
example, has a fairly powerful and easy-to-use tag editing feature, and can 
keep your music in a single virtual catalogue irrespective of where the files 
are on your hard drives. The same goes for Amarok and Rythmbox.

You could also try some of the following applications that specialise in music 
management:

prokyon3 (http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=10010)
Yammi (http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=16399)
KMusicManager (http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=16387)
EasyTAG( http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=415)
mBox (http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=354)

and many more...

Regards,
Tom

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