Hi, sorry didn't notice your questions at first. MrSinatra;428272 Wrote: > > all very cool. > > so lets say i DL'd and installed picard, thats all i need to use MB and > put the MB tags in my files, right? >
Yes sir. You might want a couple of the more or less standard plugins e.g. for retrieving cover-art from amazon. > > but here is where i am concerned... i already have spent a lot of time > getting my tags the way i want them. what exactly is picard going to do > to my existing tags? and what tags will it add? > I *think* it goes as follows. You can choose to let Picard clear all tags before writing new ones. This way you'll obviously end up with exactly what Picard retrieves from MB. If you do not choose to clear tags I believe that Picard will override all fields that has MB-data and leave the others unchanged. Exactly how this would affect you is hard to say in general though. There may be other ways of transferring your old tags that I am not aware of though. Just out of interest, could you give an example of special stuff you are doing? > > also, how do i contribute to it? and how do i keep things being > reported that i know are specific to me and wouldn't be helpful to the > community? Basically after signing up at www.musicbrainz.org you can add, edit etc at your hearts will (But it is recommended to have a look at the guidelines if in doubt about formatting etc). For the user-specific part its certainly possible, in Picard, to manually edit, add, and override all information that is pulled from MB and keep that locally. This includes semi-clever stuff such as applying some tag to all marked files and such. I've been meaning to look into smarter ways of doing this. If I learn something I'll report back. Do ask if you have more questions. Edit: Btw. the webpage, and in particular the wiki which contains the guildelines and such, is a bit of a mess IMO. I'll be happy to answer questions here to the extent that my knowledge suffices. B. -- bhaagensen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bhaagensen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7418 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62556 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
