Organising music

miggols99 · 2008-03-20 17:38:19

I recently ripped a japanese music CD, but the information about it is all wrong! When I play it in Amarok or Juk, I get the album as a bunch of random symbols and the same with the songs. On Windows with iTunes it let me choose which CD information to choose from. The first was the one I have now and the second was the one I want. Is there a program I can use to put the right information on the music files? The file names are also messed up...

Last edited by miggols99 (2008-03-20 17:39:50)

fflarex · 2008-03-20 18:25:16

There are plenty of programs that can tag your files for you, depending on how much control you want and how much you want to be automated. My personal favorite is called picard, in AUR, but also good would be exfalso (in the quodlibet package), and I've heard a lot of people seem to like easytag. Picard is easily the best for automatically organizing a large collection of music, which is what your topic title implies, but your post suggests you only need to fix one album, in which case most any decent music player can perform basic tagging functions. It shouldn't be too difficult to look things up and do it manually just this once, right?

miggols99 · 2008-03-20 18:44:37

I would prefer to be able to use CDDB because that is what iTunes uses..but what can I install?

SiD · 2008-03-20 19:03:48

abcde (konsole) could be configured to use remote CDDB and choose if more than one entry is available.

Don't know if grip (gtk) and kaudiocreator (KDE/qt part of kdemultimedia package) could do that, too.

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signor_rossi · 2008-03-20 19:06:43

easytag and kid3 are taggers (known to me) that already support CDDB lookup. Just install any of those two and use them.

Bye, signor_rossi.

sweiss · 2008-03-20 20:20:21

Use Easytag.
Great application. I use it on Windows as well.

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