On 11/09/09 22:52, Leo wrote: > Stuart Sears wrote: >> On 07/09/09 19:05, Leo wrote: >>> Unfortunately I've tried both exfalso and easytag and neither of them is >>> really good enough for me. >> >> What do you need/want a tag editor to do that they don't? >> Are you comparing these to an editor you've used in the past? >> >> How about picard? >> >> >> Stuart >> > > Basically, I've found that each one offers some of the functionality I > want, but not all of it, so I end up using about 3, and the command > line. E.g.: > exfalso: - cddb lookup isn't great. it doesn't seem as successful at > finding CDs as other tag editors. > - it doesn't cope well if another program updates the tags in a file, > it just seems to ignore them > - it has a habit of asking if I'm sure I want to make changes for > *every* song I update.
Now, you really should be able to turn that off. I don't know if you can, mind. > easytag: - I can't find out how to get it to work with multiple artists > and genres. > - I don't think it works with custom tags. Multiple Genres on the same album? Interesting :) I liked the mass renaming capabilities of easytag, using the filter editor, including renaming/creating directories - not found much else that does that bit quite as well. (well, actually amarok used to be able to do similar things, IIRC) > Also neither of them work brilliantly when I have an album in two > formats in a directory. I've never had that issue - I tend to separate them into subdirs in that situation. You really leave all the files in the same directory? Most Linux media players would have an issue with that as well, in my experience. > (If I'm wrong about any of that, then please let me know.) > Don't think I've tried picard, so I'll give that a go. picard uses musicbrainz, which for me has proven pretty good up to now. It sometimes gets things wrong though - a little manual TLC can come in useful. > My ideal tag editor (and music player) would be foobar (for windows). > It's about the one bit of software I haven't found a similar replacement > for in Linux (in my opinion). Although gmusicbrowser comes close. If you mean foobar2000 it's reported to work more or less perfectly under wine: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=14597 So if all else fails... Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. "It's today!" said Piglet. "My favourite day," said Pooh. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
