You need Picard, an automatic tagger from MusicBrainz.com On Wed, 29 Jun 2022 at 17:03, Roger Haslock <rchasl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Am I supposed to generate metadata for files? I have over 3500 of them, > and plan to add more. > > On Sunday, 26 June 2022 at 22:08:31 UTC+1 Garthhh wrote: > >> How did you generate the meta data for the files? >> Clementine expects >> Artist>album>file >> Artist>song, works >> I would make the song name the album name >> >> Minor differences, mis-spellings, order of the filename, will show up >> >> I generally process files I've captured with Audacity with a metadata >> editor >> The clementine version is ok, try highlighting all the songs of an >> artist, which makes it easier to compare/share the information between the >> files using the editor >> I prefer easytag, which is better at changing the file name & filling in >> the metadata >> >> On Friday, June 24, 2022 at 8:56:19 AM UTC-7 rcha...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> I would really appreciate this. I have a specific question, which may be >>> answered somewhere but I can't find the answer - How do I organise my >>> filenames and directories to correspond with Clementines perception. >>> >>> I have just added a directory which contains directories, each with the >>> name of an Artist, which contain a set of songs. These were taken from 78's >>> and 45's, so there are no albums to be considered. >>> >>> Clementine interprets the Artist names as Albums, but sometimes lists >>> the original disc as the Album (eg Victor 27934-a). >>> >>> I would appreciate knowing where to find the information, or failing >>> that, advice on how to do it. >>> >>> PS I have just noticed that Clem has followed my (correctly named) >>> symbolic link files to the (incorrectly named) mp3's, so that the library >>> is listing a number of tracks by Erroll Garner as by Errol or Errorl >>> Garner, to my disgust. I've just spent a couple of weeks getting it right! >>> >>> On Friday, 8 April 2022 at 17:26:54 UTC+1 pwabr...@comcast.net wrote: >>> >>>> Clementine is a really fine music player -- but if there's any >>>> instruction manual for it, it's very well hidden. Does such a thing exist? >>>> >>>> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clementine Music Player" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clementine-player+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/clementine-player/6fa16f42-5413-4247-ac2a-0a61add4f193n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/clementine-player/6fa16f42-5413-4247-ac2a-0a61add4f193n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Check out my uploaded torrents on TheMixingBowl and please continue to seed after downloading!: http://themixingbowl.org/user/uploaded/DF001/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clementine Music Player" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clementine-player+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/clementine-player/CABZ-Qd3OT5Dj-uPfsHuFQhgBgEj23AseyAKeoV_Xc__6mZ1YTg%40mail.gmail.com.
