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#1 2009-09-25 14:00:29

ataraxia
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lightweight music tag/comment editor of choice?

I've been using easytag for a long time for my library of vorbis files, and recently I've gotten tired of dealing with its problems. It's slow, buggy, unmaintained upstream, has some odd design decisions, and has a UI that appears to have been created by a Martian. What it has going for it: it mostly actually works, and can handle some really complex cases.

What else have I found?

tagtool - Much simpler and lighter than easytag. Much less featureful. Also unmaintained upstream - its website has disappeared. The leading contender to replace easytag.

Goggles Music Manager - Includes player functionality and makes its own database, so no thanks. Tagger only, please.

Ex Falso - Comes only with the full Quod Libet installation, so not lightweight.

Picard - Really targeted at Musicbrainz access. Requires Qt, so not lightweight.

ncmpcpp - What I already use to actually play music, so a big plus there. Runs in a terminal - a HUGE plus. Really not a bad tagger, but just a little bit underpowered - no mass-tagging capabilities. If it had that, it would be perfect.

various KDE or GNOME apps - Almost by definition, the opposite of what I'm looking for.

The "do it yourself" option - Lots of work, and probably the best way ever to screw up all my metadata. lol


So, what else can people here suggest for me? Lightweight, not creating databases, not having player functionality, and preferably running in a terminal. What are you using yourselves (whether I'd like it or not)?

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#2 2009-09-25 14:13:11

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Re: lightweight music tag/comment editor of choice?

audiotag in AUR maybe? It's simply a perl script wrapper for various CLI taggers. For me, the only thing it lacks is searching from internet databases.


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#3 2009-09-25 19:55:20

AngryKoala
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Re: lightweight music tag/comment editor of choice?

Goggles modifies the file too if you check the box, but it is the full blown player so you have to take the whole thing =/

and I second audiotag

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#4 2009-09-25 20:20:36

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Re: lightweight music tag/comment editor of choice?

picard might have qt as a dependency, but you wont find anything better. Its integrated scripting language makes picard more powerful than any other tagger out there - even without musicbrainz, which is not needed to use picard at all. It just speeds things up quite a lot. picard uses the scripts for tagging/renaming/guessing from filename...


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#5 2009-09-26 01:00:47

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Re: lightweight music tag/comment editor of choice?

ncmpcpp - What I already use to actually play music, so a big plus there. Runs in a terminal - a HUGE plus. Really not a bad tagger, but just a little bit underpowered - no mass-tagging capabilities. If it had that, it would be perfect.

What do you mean by mass tagging? Ncmpcpp already can edit tags of multiple songs at once, parse filenames, rename files etc., but I'm open for suggestions.

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#6 2009-09-26 01:37:48

ataraxia
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Re: lightweight music tag/comment editor of choice?

unK wrote:

ncmpcpp - What I already use to actually play music, so a big plus there. Runs in a terminal - a HUGE plus. Really not a bad tagger, but just a little bit underpowered - no mass-tagging capabilities. If it had that, it would be perfect.

What do you mean by mass tagging? Ncmpcpp already can edit tags of multiple songs at once, parse filenames, rename files etc., but I'm open for suggestions.

I didn't realize that I could edit multiple files at once, OR that I could parse tags into or out of filenames. I know it now. Looks like I was sitting on a winner all along. Nice!

Just about the only thing I can't figure out how to do with it is to rename files including changing the directories they are in. Something like using a rename pattern of "%a/%b/%n.%t". Trying that behaves as if I'd written "%a%b%n.%t". Ideally, subdirectories created by this process would be relative to mpd_music_dir, rather than to the current directory the files are in.

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