[mb-users] Automated tag update checking

Andy Hawkins andy at gently.org.uk
Tue Oct 16 15:12:27 UTC 2007


Hi,

In article <ea3adab70710160656k774f7b6brb28eb53bb6bffc21 at mail.gmail.com>,
           Mike Lerch<mike.lerch at gmail.com> wrote:
> That got me thinking, you know what would be really useful?  Add a tag
> (or maybe we already have it!) that records the vintage of the MB info
> right in the file.  Then have Picard (or MusicIP or whatever) scan
> through your collection to find files that the community has updated.

I'm not sure it would necessarily save anything, as you'd have to download
the information from MusicBrainz to realise it has changed.

My flactag utility has a --check option, that compares the tags with those
that are generated by MusicBrainz data and reports any differences.

Andy




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