[mb-users] Automated tag update checking

[Bogdan Butnaru]

On 10/16/07, Kuno Woudt <kuno at frob.nl> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 04:25:55PM +0200, Age Bosma wrote:
> > I don't use Picard for tagging purposes but I believe that the
> > MusicBrainz track ID is stored in the tags if you use Picard to tag your
> > files. This means that the tracks you have are matched to the
> > corresponding track in MusicBrainz. If you lookup your tracks again you
> > will get an indication how much the tags match and you can choose to
> > re-tag your files again if changed have been made to that track in the
> > MB db.
> >
> > So what you're looking for is already possible.
>
> Picard is not really suitable for going through 'your collection'.  It
> is useful on perhaps a dozen of albums, but if you throw your 100GB+
> music collection at it it croaks.

It sort of works, though. I've never seen it take on 100GB of music,
but I did enter a few tens of GBs and it worked decently. (This is
with the latest Picard QT.) It crashes sometimes, but I can just
restart that batch.

It takes a lot for it to scan the files and retrieve the info, and I
always take the time to look through the results to see if there are
big differences, and it also takes a lot to update the files. But it
is doable, even for a big collection; if you only do this once a year
or so, even if it takes a whole weekend it isn't a big deal.

(And I'm working on a Picard trick to do this automatically on a
collection-wide scale, but that'll take a while.)

-- Bogdan Butnaru — bogdanb at gmail.com
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