Music question

[Ari Torhamo]

to, 2007-12-06 kello 12:05 -0600, Linda Hanigan kirjoitti:
 
> > Linda Hanigan wrote:
> > > I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to audio file information to
> > > song files. I have some CDS a friend recorded and I would like to have
> > > them appear as the artist and the song title instead of track # in
> > > rhythm box. Right now all of their CDS show as unknown and track so if I
> > > want to listen to their christmas songs I have to guess which track 2 is
> > > christmas versus their other music. Rhythm Box will show the info in
> > > boxes but doesn't allow me to change the information.
> > >                           Thanks
> > >                           Linda Hanigan


As Kim already said, you should use a file tagging program to get
Rythmbox to show song titles, etc. I just tested this with Rythmbox, and
it seems to ignore file names complitely as long as there's a tag (or
perhaps I should say some information in a tag) available. Only when I
emptied the name tag of a song, Rythmbox showed the file name instead.
Apparently the name tags of your audio files just had the song number in
them. When you feed in the artist name, it's better to use the relevant
tag for this instead of the tag for the song name. This way Rythmbox
will show the name of the artist in the artist pane.

Easytag seems like a versatile tagging programme, but also somewhat
unintuitive and confusing. An other one I tried, Cowbell, on the other
hand seems too simple - there doesn't even seem to be a way to edit the
tags of song names. Propably Easytag is the best way to go. 

Regards,

Ari