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iTunes and Unicode ID3 Tags
I'm using MP3Tag for tagging my MP3s since a long time and it creates very good results.
With iTunes (of course not with other MP3 programs e.g. Winamp) I always have problems after first import of ...
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Dump/load metadata with FFmpeg (WMA to MP3)
I need to convert WMA metadata into MP3 ID3 tags. FFmpeg should be able to dump them into a file and load them back to another using implemented mappers. I cannot find syntax of usage though:
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How do I embed album art in an MP3 in iTunes?
In each folder I have the cover art, for example:
/Adele
/Adele/21
/Adele/21/cover.jpg
cover.jpg is the album art. How do I embed that into my MP3s in iTunes?
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How to split big flac file int tracks and fill the id3 tag?
I have a music album, but whole album is in single flac file and tracks are listed in cue file. So I'd like to split it into tracks, but also fill the id3 tags and name files by track name.
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How to store iTunes cover art as mp3 id tag?
iTunes shows nice cover arts for all my mp3 songs. Unfortunately most of them are stored in the iTunes data base and not as mp3 id tags. This makes them useless, if I use the mp3 files with other ...
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Side-effects of wiping my library of ID3v1 tags
Unfortunately, Google Music does weird things with how it interprets my music. I'm really kind of crazy with how I tag and manage my music collection; I spent a long time last year going through every ...
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Advanced ID3 tags handling and audio files ordering
Some of my files do not have complete ID3 tags and some have typos or small differences in writing – so finally, my portable player sees “Mr. President” as different artist from “Mr President” and so ...
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Is there a command-line tool that converts tags to id3v2.3?
I've recently been ripping more of my CDs and have noticed that there seems to be no command-line tool that allows for converting to id3v2.3. The only tool I've found that can actually even properly ...
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Lock sing on mp3 files when edited from Songbird
Everytime I edit (Metadata id3 tags) of mp3 files in Songbird, the icon of mp3 files changes, an LOCK sign gets added on top of cover art of the fileicon when viewed in Windows Explorer. What does the ...
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ID3 tags are read incorrectly
Recently, I re-ripped quite a few of my CDs at a higher bitrate using CDex. However, I wasn't aware that the default setting of ID3v2.4 would cause problems with Windows Media Player (Win7x64) as well ...
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Automatic MP3 tagger to fix ID3 tags
I am trying to find an MP3 tagger that will automatically fix ID3 tags.
I am well aware of the options for manually fixing them such as:
MusicBrainz Picard
Media Monkey
TuneUp
I've read over ...
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Software to detect mp3 almost-duplicates?
Because of some unfortunate circumstances I noticed I irrevertibly mixed up my sorted and retagged mp3s with an old backup. That means now I have files that are basically duplicates except for the id3 ...
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Why do most of my MP3s show up as “unknown artist/album” in the Zune Software?
Just got myself a Windows Phone 7 (WP7) and am trying to sync my MP3s from my computer to my WP7 (via the Zune) feature. So I downloaded the Zune software and pointed it to my MP3 folder and it found ...
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I need a program that can auto-tag my MP3s and sort them into folders
I'm looking for a program that can go through the 5GB of MP3s in my Unsorted folder, automatically fill in ID3 tags and album art, rename the files and sort them into new folders like so:
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Programs to automatically download album covers and insert them in to ID3 tags?
Let us assume that I have a perfectly tagged MP3 collection - at the very least Artist and Album Name are all intact. The only lacking thing is the album covers.
What tool should I use? I note there ...
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How to compare mp3, flac audio data in a file, ignoring header data (ID3 tag) etc.?
I've backed up some audio files up in 2 places and added ID3 tags into one backup but not the other, since time has passed my own memory has faded on whether the backups are actually the same, but now ...
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Script and handling extended characters in filenames
Background
My music collection is on a linux (ubuntu) box, but available through a samba share, so most people (roomies) will be accessing it via windows.
I'm writing a script to automate sorting my ...
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How to find MP3 files without ID3 tags?
I have a lot of mp3 files without any ID3 tag information. This is very annoying, because my iPod does not show them correctly.
My Banshee shows them as "unknown artist" and the title. I would like to ...
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Removing duplicate fields in ID3 tags
I have a couple of MP3s that have duplicate fields in their ID3 tags. Let me show you what I mean:
This is causing problems with some media players. Is there a tool that can automatically fix these ...
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Where does the value for “Description” come from in ID3 tags created by GarageBand
I have made some music in GarageBand '09, and when I export it, there is some strange data in the ID3 tags. When I open the MP3 in VLC, and view the meta data, there is field called Description and it ...
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Open Source Windows Command Line ID3 / ID3v2 Tagger
Is there an open source, command line based app for Windows to tag MP3 files by manually passing the artist, album etc as arguments?
The answers for Is there a Windows command-line tool to set ID3 ...
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Tag a lot of MP3s, but only the Genre
I have a relatively large music database that is absolutely perfectly organized -- except for the genres. I need a program that updates the tags for all those MP3s, but only the correct genre. Any ...
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Automatic ID3 tag finder
Does one exist? I have about 500 songs with out ID3 tags and i'm not about to go through and edit 500 songs manually.
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Editing MP3 details in Windows 7
I've recently discovered an annoying problem with Windows 7: Windows Explorer and Windows Media Player cannot edit ID3 tags if the version used is 2.4 (and presumably above, when that happens, and ...
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How to get iTunes to recognize that certain ID3 tags have been removed from files?
I use MusicBrainz Picard to manage the ID3 tags on my MP3 collection and iTunes for playing them and managing my iPod. I have Picard set to remove the Composer tag from any files that don't also ...
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Command-line ID3 tag editor that handles all tags
I am looking for a tool to edit tags in MP3s through a script.
The files are episodes of several podcasts where the tags are inconsistent between episode: Sometimes the Album or Genre tag is missing ...
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Using iTunes, can I write all of the metadata into ID3 tags?
I'm not sure, but this may be part of the organization of my library. Currently, all of my music is properly sorted and indexed with accurate data. I want to make sure that this is written to the ID3 ...
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Audio organizing via CLI
I'm looking for some software for my OpenSUSE, which with I would be able to organize my audio files.
I've found one, which may be good, but it's unable to run without X server (in CLI).
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Software to add Lyrics to MP3 files ID3 metadata
What software do you use to automatically add lyrics to MP3 files?
I mean the kind of software that can scan your entire music library and do the job.
I want to add lyrics to my MP3 files so that ...
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Fetch MP3 ID3 tag under linux
I have a few mp3 files which are not tagged. Winamp has a nice feature which I think is called "autotag" and which is very good at finding out artist and title for files. I'd like something like this ...
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Check “Id3 Tag” integrity from mp3 (almost a “debug”). Is it possible?
I'm using Mp3Tag do edit Id3 tags in my mp3 files.
In the editor everything looks ok, but in my iTunes, some of them just ge messed up. The artist isn't read, Album Artist doesn't show up, this kind ...
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Using custom ID3-Tags in iTunes (OS X)
I love foobar2000 on Windows and have 2 custom Tags for my mp3s - Rate and mood.
Now I have to use a Mac to play my music and emulating foobar won't work, because foobar has to recreate its database ...
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Command line tool for listing ID3 tags under Linux
I want to write a script that manipulates ID3 tags of mp3 files. I need a tool that reads the tags and outputs it in a format in a machine-readable format. For example, if I want it to output only the ...
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Moving symlinks into a folder based on id3 tags
I'm trying to get my music folder into something sensible. Right now, I have all my music stored in /home/foo so I have all of the albums soft linked to ~/music. I want the structure to be ...
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Is there a way to tag MP3 the way you can do with Photos in Live Photo Gallery or Picazza?
I really do love the way you can tag pictures in Windows Live Photo Gallery. I find it incredibly useful to be able to tag the same picture with the tag "Cancun" and have it been automatically ...
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Problem with Music Details
I have some music files and the information doesn't show up. Here they are in explorer:
As you can see, there is no information for track, title, artist, or album. This prevents me from syncing the ...
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Changing ID3 tags of music in iTunes with read-only attributes
When I add an mp3 file with read-only attributes to iTunes, iTunes does not allow me to change the file's ID3 tags or delete the file later. Removing the read-only attributes after adding the file ...
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How can I add metadata to mp3s, along a timeline to break up one mp3 in subsections?
I would like to add metadata to mixtapes or lectures that will show song names as the mix progress as well as being able to skip forward in the mp3 as if it was separate files. I have seen this done ...
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Auto-tagging MP3s
I have a ton of MP3s, but their ID tags are not filled in. Going in manually to populate them is simply too much work.
I was wondering if there is a way to populate them automatically. Perhaps by ...
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Repair encoding of ID3 tags
I have inherited about 2000 MP3 files. For the majority of them, their ID3 tags display garbled in Amarok. I need a software that upgrades the ID3 tags to v2.4 type $03 (i.e. UTF-8 encoding), removes ...
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iTunes on OS X fails to read some ID3 tags
Total niches o I doubt anyone can help...
These are from CDs ripped years ago with EAC and LAME. They work fine in iTunes on Windows + VLC on the Mac but iTunes is failing to read the ID3 data from a ...
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How to create mp3 snippets with a 5sec fadeout from a cd including id3 tags as batch process in linux
I want to:
Rip a CD
Set ID3 tags
Create snippets (45 seconds)
Add a 5sec fadeout at the end (40s-45s)
Convert to mp3
I've tried several tools now (Goobox, Grip, lame, ecasound, vorbis-tools, ...
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Software to drag and drop ID3 tags into MP3s?
A while back I ripped a load of CDs into individual MP3s for each track. Like a fool I didn't use CDEx (for CDDB lookups) or an equivalent when ripping so there are no ID3 tags and each track is named ...
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Mass ID3 renaming
I have a whole bunch of unnamed mp3s.
I need to name them all, preferably with the same name as their file name.
so for soundeffect001.mp3, it should name id3 title the mp3 as soundeffect001.
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Is there an ID3 tag editor for iTunes on OS X?
I'm looking for an iTunes ID3 tag editor for OS X.
I've tried a lot such as iEatBrainz and PolluxApp. Aside from the usual tagging, album artwork and lyrics are also important to me. Most taggers ...
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Managing genres in mp3 files
I have over 20k MP3s which have been run through MusicBrainz Picard a while ago to consistentify the artists/track details. However, I have inconsistent genres and would like a way to scan all files ...
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Convert Ogg Vorbis to MP3 with Metadata
I've got a few hundred megs of Ogg Vorbis files I've collected over the years that I want to convert to MP3 so I can put them on my iPhone (among other things.)
Converting from one file format to the ...
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Windows: What software do you recommend for editing MP3 ID3 tags?
What software do you recommend for editing MP3 ID3 tags?
(The OS is Windows XP.)
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Mp3 ID3 tags organizer/cleaner for linux
ID3 tags are very useful when you put your mp3 on a decent portable player. Sometimes they are not coherent and I get (in example) the same artist written in two different way considered to be two ...
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Is there a Windows command-line tool to set ID3 tags on an MP3 file?
I am looking for a command-line tool for Windows that will allow me to set the ID3 tags on an MP3 file.
For example, something like this would be ideal:
C:\> setID3.exe myfile.mp3 -artist "The ...
