Music question

[Linda Hanigan]

On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 21:14 +0200, Ari Torhamo wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
Thank you so much. I installed Easytag and labeled a bunch of their
music. Now everything won't be stuck in unknown artist and I can even
choose by album.
                          Linda