Rhythmbox frustration !!!

Jon Dixon dixon.jon at gmail.com
Tue Dec 21 09:52:55 UTC 2004


I use EasyTag under Hoary for all my renames and touch ups of music files.

Works great, and has many features for populating data across all
tracks and such.

- Jon

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 00:33:15 -0500, piedamaro
<ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> 
> Brian Craft Wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 02:16:01AM +0100, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> > > I have just checked "easytag", and it really doesn't look as "easy"
> > as
> > > the name suggests....and the interface is really really very ugly.
> >
> > I have to agree. Much better are cantus and cantus3. Unfortunately
> > neither of them are 100% complete. cantus3 is a new code base with
> > a plug-in architecture, but it's still buggy and few plugins have
> > been written.
> >
> > I recently used cantus to tag a bunch of flac files that were
> > untagged.
> > It's able to look up the disc in cddb from the hash (i.e. I didn't
> > have
> > to dig out the discs again if I still have the hash under ~/.cddb),
> > generate the tags from the cddb info, and normalize the file names
> > based
> > on the tags, all in one step.
> >
> > I then used cantus3 to mass-edit some of the tag info, like artist
> > name
> > and album. Mass-edit doesn't really work in cantus, because it zeros
> > unedited fields.
> >
> > b.c.
> >
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> Altough I agree cantus interface is clearer, easytag is amazing
> powerful: you can fill id3tags using regex on filenames, rename files
> from tags, process fields, cddb look-up.
> After working on few files, you'll soon get the hang on it, I've
> renamed/retagged 10GB of files with easytag, it just needs some HIG
> love :)
> 
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