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Question: Which of the following best describes your position re
puddletag?
- Love it
- Hate it
- Tempting, but can I trust it?
- Needs improvement
- Not interested
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adamslim;573689 Wrote:
> I have just moved my main machine over to Linux (Ubuntu); it is a bit of
> a learning experience for me, but certainly a good tagger is essential
> for me - I have become quite the MP3Tag whizz. While the machine is
> dual boot, I'd rather keep to Linux as far as possible.
>
> So for a Linux novice, the install was kinda OK. It didn't initially
> appear in the Applications menu, but now that's OK. I always seem to
> find that installing things in Linux is a bit more complicated than
> running Setup.exe, but that's me and Linux rather than Puddletag.We're
> working on building limited distribution specific builds (likely
Debian and Fedora flavours) so that you can install it by just
double-clicking on the file via the Desktop GUI.
adamslim;573689 Wrote:
> I have only tried it a couple of times, and will do so more and provide
> feedback. Some early comments:
>
> - I like the flexibility for adding custom tags both to the columns and
> to the Tag Panel easily
>
> - In Actions - Format Value (OK, Functions), MP3Tag had the option to
> choose the Tag you are operating on in the window; here you rely on the
> tag being selected when you choose the menu item. I would prefer a
> hybrid, whereby it told you what it was operating on, but defaulted to
> the tag that you had selected.
>
> - Like MP3Tag you have a list of Genres that can be used to populate
> the Genre tag field, but I would like the facility to add a list to
> *any* tag, so my custom tags can have a drop-down of allowable entries.
> That would be cool.
>
> All in all it looks very promising, although I will be trying it out a
> lot before I let it loose with tagging across my entire library :)
Thanks for the feedback. Your suggestions for additional functionality
will be added into the melting pot and prioritised along with the
features etc. we're working on.
Regarding its robustness, puddletag makes use of the Mutagen tag
library which is long-established and used in the Quod Libet player and
Ex Falso tagger also. I've tagged somewhere in the vicinity of 2000+
albums using puddletag and never hit an issue, so I consider it pretty
safe. Like any tagger though, if you're attempting complex actions,
regular expressions etc, I'd experiment on a small subset, satisfy
myself that it's doing what I want and then unleash it on the
population of files you're wanting to affect changes to.
Writing artwork to file has always been my pet hate when it comes to
tagging - for precisely the reason you cite...it's slow regardless of
tagger. Admittedly, as puddletag's not a compiled executable it may be
a little slower than mp3tag on this front. I'll raise it and we'll see
if the code can be optimised. Personally, I've taken to ensuring I
allow sufficient padding for tags and artwork when creating the FLAC
file - this way the entire file doesn't need to be rewritten when
adding artwork and it speeds things up very considerably. These days
when I call on FLAC the command line looks like this:
Code:
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flac -V -8 --apply-replaygain --padding=450000 --delete-input-file *.wav
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It may waste a smidgen of space, but it also means that I can easily
accommodate larger cover art if I at some point find myself with an
iPad type device.
Here's something you may find handy if you're comfortable working at
the command line:
Code:
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find . -name "*.flac" -type f -execdir metaflac --remove
--block-type=PICTURE {} \; && find . -name "*.flac" -type f -execdir metaflac
--import-picture-from="folder.jpg" --show-tag="Title" {} \;
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The aforementioned line will traverse a directory tree beginning at the
current folder and walking though all its children, remove any existing
artwork from your FLAC files and then embed folder.jpg in each FLAC
file it finds. It assumes that there's a folder.jpg in each folder and
that each album is in a folder of its own. Pretty handy unless you
embed more than just coverart in your FLAC files. This method of
embedding coverart is faster than any tagging tool I've used.
--
audiomuze
'*puddletag: A tag editor for Linux (that happens to run on OS X)*'
(http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/)
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