[mb-users] Retrieving information from a plethora of untagged files

[Alan]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 09:11:47PM -0400, Andrew Conkling wrote:
> Hello list,
> Between using Windows Media Player, iTunes, WMAs, and just generally
> being lazy, my friend has pretty much made mush of his music
> collection.  Let's just say at this point, he has one folder of a
> bunch of Track01.wma files....
> 
> He's looking to tag these, and thought MusicBrainz may be able to
> help.  Unfortunately, I'm coming up blank with ideas for him.  Picard,
> to my knowledge, can only tag clustered files, and can only cluster
> files based on some existing pattern.  So that won't help.

When I had this a couple of years ago the MB tagger (not sure if it
still works or if the server is still running) was a godsend for me.  A
combination of mb tagger, listening, itunes (for searching the apple
store to confirm that the song was what I thought it was if it was
something I didn't know) and a tagging editor called 'the godfather' was
how I did it.  Hopefully there's something in there that'll help, if
not, well... ugh.  Time to break it up to managable chunks and pass
files to friends with instructions to listen to the song and rename it
with the artist/song :)  

alan

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