Hello-

I use EAC to rip to FLAC, and choose the right freedb tag data when
doing so... but it isn't always perfect, and sometimes odd characters
get permuted to really strange stuff on the way to the filename, etc.

I'd like to clean up my tags... some I can do myself using MP3tag, but
it would be nice to have an automated way to make a lot of it "better"
(meaning, better than freedb's entries, which often get genre weird,
miss the year, or have multiple, slightly different, names for the same
artist)

I tried "fix tags" from MusicIP, which catches a lot, but also messes a
lot up (hint: back up before messing with tags :) It seems often
oblivious to the fact that a set of tracks are all from the same album,
and one needs to be careful not to relist tracks out of the album
they're actually part of.

Is there a better way? I read about dbPoweramp, which sounds nice
(especially the most recent release)... is it the best/most recommended
for this auto-tag-fixing task (on a large library)?

Are there other suggestions? I vaguely remember hearing of other
commercial (not free, but I'm OK paying a reasonable fee) solutions,
but can't find them right off; rumor seemed to have it they had better
data than the open source stuff.

The MusicBrainz add-on for mp3tag seems like it might not be any better
than "fix tags" in MusicIP; true, or is it improved by contextual
associations (eg whether tracks are part of the same album)?

Advice/suggestions appreciated!


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