Question about mass import with bad tags

[nik8]

If I import my 5000+ mp3 collection (i.e. point FF at it) but I’ve got a load of missing tags, will subsequently fixing the tags cause duplicate entries in the FF database? By missing tags it could be track, artist, album at least

What I want to do is do a mass scan and then identify the bad ones with iTunes and then sort the tags out.

or is it best to sort them all out first?

thanks!

[fizze]

nah, that would work with iTunes.

at a “full rescan” the song DB is wiped out and rebuilt from scratch. So no duplicate entries.

[nik8]

cool, that’s what I’ll do then

thanks

[fizze]

….while you’re at it, could you re-tag mine as well ? 😉

[nik8]

@fizze wrote:

….while you’re at it, could you re-tag mine as well ? 😉

how much you paying ? 😀

that’s an idea – outsourced tag fixing hehe

[fizze]

well I always wanted to fix mine… anyway…

what’s your plan ?
using mp3tag or something ?

unfortunately musicbrainz service is too inacurrate.

Proper taggin is something I’ve wanted for aaages….

[nik8]

@fizze wrote:

..
what’s your plan ?
using mp3tag or something ?

unfortunately musicbrainz service is too inacurrate.

Proper taggin is something I’ve wanted for aaages….

I’ve got used to using Tag&Rename –

My process is :

1. Get all the tags right based on an FreeDB or Amazon search (auto from T&R)
2. Once tags are right, do a mass rename (auto from T&R)

The tag part unfortunately is per album or group of and is dependent on good rips (FreeDB search is done by length of track and number of I think) and Amazon search allows downloading and embedding of album art). I sometimes need to dive in and manually tag but generally T&R is really good at it.

Any new rip I do or get now I do this process, it’s just all the old stuff I’ve got of which some is not well ripped, thats just takes a bit more time.

It can be painful but very satisfying to see more and more of my music being properly tagged and named 🙂

[Author]

Posts