It's been a while since I posted any updates regarding puddletag and
there have been a host of under the hood tweaks as well as functional
enhancements & additions, culminating in this release. A lot of our
focus has been on adding the little things that make your life easier
when tagging, whether you're tagging an individual track, and album or
processing changes to your entire library. If you haven't already
tried puddletag I'd encourage you to do so as I'm sure you'll be very
pleasantly surprised by what it offers and its ease of use. It's the
little things that make all the difference e.g. being able to:
- copy selected tag metadata from files in a 1:1 or 1:many fashion
- lookup tags using multiple tag sources (masstagging) and combine
the results whilst dictating which fields to populate from which
sources. Tags a mess? ...no problem, load the files, choose one or
more tag sources and masstagger will do its best to create some
semblance of order from the chaos. When it's done you can review/
edit and make any changes you like including wholesale rejection of
proposed changes for any track(s)
- add metadata to existing tags without overwriting/ compromising
existing tags
- process Actions & Functions against only selected fields or all
fields in selected files except those fields you specifically
exclude
- easily assign metadata from a tag source at an album or track
level
- retrieve metadata from various tag sources and for every tag
source, have the data saved to fields of your choosing
_*What_users_are_saying:*_
- "Thanks for this very nice program. I've been able to run it on
Mac OSX 10.6 without any problem at the exception of the Quolibet
functionalities (Quolibet depends on PyGtk which is not natively
available for Mac)."
- "Thanks for making an Mp3Tag for Linux!"
- "Cheers & great work, thanks!"
- "OMG ! That's powerful. Thanks very much."
- "Discovered PuddleTag 0.97 today. It is fatastic! Right away I feel
at home (was familiar with mp3Tag + wine). The GUI of PuddleTag is
more efficient in my opinion. Kudos to the author."
- "Hi, first of all I want to congratulate you for this wonderful
program."
- "hEY. first of all - a brilliant piece of software. i was forced
to move to ubuntu a few weeks back and thanks to puddletag, it's less
painful"
- "first, congratulation for this software, i'm very impressed by the
all the solutions for tagging my audio collection. (scripts regexp
.....)
good work"
- "Great tagger and actively developed. It's also very fast."
- "Wow, this has exceeded my expectations. Thanks to the developers
for an excellent audio tagger."
- "Reverting to other tag editors would be like entering the dark
ages. puddletag's become an exceptionally good tag editor."
- "I'd never have believed it, but puddletag has taken Mp3tag as its
baseline, and then lifted the bar enormously. I'm blown away!"
- "Very, very useful, managing my tagging requirements has become a
breeze."
- "A reason to finally ditch Wine and MP3Tag! Puddletag is everything
you want and more in a spreadsheet-based tagger."
- "I've tried every Linux based audio tagger out there and and
puddletag is hands-down streets ahead of all of them. Linux users
finally have an audio tagger every bit as good as windows users enjoy
in mp3tag."
_*What's_new:*_
At a high level key changes & additions can be summarised as follows:
- many new '*functions*'
(http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/functions.html) added to further
ease and enhance your ability to process changes to fields
- extensive support for '*musicbrainz metadata*'
(http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/tagsources.html#MusicBrainz) and
'*Discogs.com's XML service*'
(http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/tagsources.html#Discogs)
- (tentative) support for '*Mp3tag's tag sources*'
(http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/tagsources.html#mp3tag)
- Preview mode: review/add/ amend metadata retrieved from tag sources
prior to committing any changes. In practical terms this means you
can load an album in puddletag and enrich the metadata using a
combination of tag sources and your own edits/ additions in a single
operation. Edits/ additions can be made using the File-View, Tag
Panel or Extended Tags view.
- ability to move directories using the '*Tag->Dir function*'
(http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/functions.html#tag_to_dir)
- addition of __counter (the sequence number of the file that's being
processed, based on the order they're listed in the file-view) and
__total_files (total number of files currently being processed, based
on the number of files selected) variables, which which you can use in
Functions and Actions
- function to '*correct incorrectly encoded filenames*'
(http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/functions.html#convert_encoding)
- ability to sort selected files using predefined sort criteria that
differs from the sort order of the population of loaded files
- ability to move selected files up/ down in file listing, regardless
of sort orrder
- ability to assign shortcuts to Actions
- puddletag now supports translations
To get an appreciation of all that puddletag offers, please refer to
the '*online documentation*'
(http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/docs.html).
--
audiomuze
*'Linux finally gets a great audio tagger'
(http://www.ubuntugeek.com/linux-finally-gets-a-great-audio-tagger.html):
'puddletag' (http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/)*
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