On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 11:04:32 -0800, Bill Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a little off topic, but I thought the knowledge of this group > could help me. > > I have a rather large music collection that I use with Slimserver. A > good many of my MP3 tags are, shall we say, messed up! > > I am looking for a good MP3 Tag Fixer (free is good) for both the Mac > and Windows platforms. Do you have recommendations?
In OSX you can use the cli program id3v2 There might be a windows shell port as well. It is all cli - but it works extremely well for me, only thing to watch for is your LANG variable - if your LANG environmental variable is set to a UTF-8 setting, some special characters won't display properly in mp3 jukeboxes because (as I understand it) there is not proper UTF8 support in the ID3 specification, so it doesn't record the LANG the tag is written in. So before I fix tags - I first run export LANG="en-US" (that's in Linux) Then I can use id3v2 to fix tags. And being a cli app, it takes wildcards for arguements - IE id3v2 -a "Janis Joplin" *.mp3 will change the artist to Janis Joplin for all mp3 files in the directory (and it will add ID3v2 tags to files that were done in ID3V1 at the same time) id3v2 homepage: http://id3v2.sourceforge.net/ -=- That being said - the way I usually tag files is through lame when transcoding from flac, and I use metaflac to make sure my flac files are properly tagged. -- http://mpeters.us/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
