Best way to manage Id3 tags?

Michael T. Richter ttmrichter at gmail.com
Mon Aug 21 03:23:31 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-20-08 at 14:07 -0700, Danny Colligan wrote:

> I wanted to ask the list:  what is the best way to manage id3 tags?
> I just switched to Rythmbox from XMMS because i wanted a nicer
> itunes-ish interface than what the winap-ish xmms provides.  However,
> unlike itunes (maybe this is why it is so much faster?) Rhythmbox
> doesn't allow you to edit the id3 tags within the interface. 
> 
> I found this Python ID3 tag module: http://id3-py.sourceforge.net/ so
> I guess I could script it myself if I wanted to, but I wanted to know
> if there's an effective utility which already provides this
> functionality. 


I use EasyTag under the principle that it was the first utility I
stumbled over that was Good Enough.  There may be better, but I stop
searches when I find something that is Good Enough.  Mostly I picked it
because it had some pretty good tag-from-filename capabilities and mass
renaming capabilities.

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