Plasma Active Three released

Posted Oct 16, 2012 10:54 UTC (Tue) by intgr (subscriber, #39733)
In reply to: Plasma Active Three released by rsidd
Parent article: Plasma Active Three released

> If there is an error-free automated way to tag them all, great

Picard has built-in acoustic fingerprinting, which is mostly error-free, but they don't have fingerprints of all the tracks.

For the rest, yeah, Picard assumes it can find *some* information from the tags. If it doesn't, I guess it'll be lots of manual work. Maybe someone has written a plugin to parse filenames, I don't know.

Plasma Active Three released

Posted Oct 16, 2012 16:15 UTC (Tue) by jnareb (subscriber, #46500) [Link] (1 responses)

> Maybe someone has written a plugin to parse filenames, I don't know.

EasyTag has a feature to generate tags from pathname
(and reverse: rename file based on tags).

Plasma Active Three released

Posted Oct 20, 2012 4:52 UTC (Sat) by dirtyepic (guest, #30178) [Link]

It also has built-in Musicbrainz and CDDB support, can automatically rename files based on format strings (including directory structure), create playlists, etc. etc. It does have a bit of a learning curve and the UI isn't exactly what you'd call intuitive but you can configure just about anything you can think of.

An example workflow: I like to clear any existing tags and fill in the fields by hand (you can use musicbrainz here but I'm anal about how my tracks get named). Then I just save and hit Rename and all my files are renamed based on the tags and my format string and sorted directly into my collection. If it could fetch album cover art from Amazon and lyrics from LyricWiki it'd be perfect.

Plasma Active Three released

Posted Oct 16, 2012 16:47 UTC (Tue) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Kid3 can make tags based on file paths in batch mode (I also use it to remove comments, album art[1], ENCODEDBY, and other tags I don't want/use).

[1]I much prefer cover.png files instead.