Stuart Sears wrote: >> 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. My thoughts exactly :)
> >> 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 :) Yep. I use it for tagging songs with broad and specific genres. > > 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. Hmmm. What I generally do now is: after I've bought a CD, I rip it then convert it to flac to store on the computer and ogg to put on my mp3 player, so I get both lots in the same directory before tagging. Then the flac gets tagged, copied to the ogg and both get moved to their respective places. > >> (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... Tempting, although I've managed to avoid Wine so far. Perhaps I should try and delve into the code behind ex falso... to "fix" it ;) Leo -- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------
