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Fixing garbled id3v2 tags with incorrect encoding using mid3v2
I have been using id3v2 to automatically tag music files (title, album, artist).
While id3v2 displays the metadata correctly, other players do not - here I have an example of issues with À/è/û and ...
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Is there a way to automatically bulk-update specific ID3 fields in MP3s but leave other fields untouched?
I have thousands of MP3s which are missing the "Year" ID3 field which means I can't sort albums chronologically.
I'm looking for a way to automatically download ID3 metadata in bulk and populate only ...
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Adding ID3 Tags to Non-MP3 Files
I was wondering if there was a way to add ID3 tags to anything that isn't a .mp3 file.
I commonly write guitar tabs using a program called Guitar Pro, and the output files are in a .gpx format. It ...
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Setting ID3 "album artist" to be equal to "artist - album" combined
I tried to do it with EasyTAG but it doesn't seem to be possible. I'm going to create a big compilation of music and every song is from different artist and album.
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MusicBrainz Picard: How to fill only certain tags, sort into least albums, and "disallow" multi-artist albums
Here is what I want:
Fill only: Genre, Date (As the original release), and Album
Sort into the least amount of albums
Don't use albums with multiple/various artists
The artist and title tags are ...
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Which type of cover is album cover?
I am using this software called mp3tag and I don't know if it's the right forum but it's clearly not their forum cause it's more about ID3 tags. Say I have a song. I have a band cover, an album cover, ...
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Can Xbox Music be configured to recognize "Band Name" and "The Band Name" as the same band?
In Xbox Music, "Band Name" and "The Band Name" are grouped as two different bands. This can be frustrating, especially if the band's name starts with a letter nowhere near "T".
As a corollary, can ...
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Can different id3v2 tags in the same song be of a different version (ex. version 2.3 and 2.4)?
I'm confused on the difference between id3v2 version 2.3 and version 2.4 and would really appreciate it if anyone can clear this all up for me.
For example can the same file have TIT2 tag of Black ...
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Software to detect mp3 almost-duplicates?
Because of some unfortunate circumstances I noticed I irrevertibly mixed up my sorted and retagged mp3s with an old backup. That means now I have files that are basically duplicates except for the id3 ...
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I need a program that can auto-tag my MP3s and sort them into folders [closed]
I'm looking for a program that can go through the 5GB of MP3s in my Unsorted folder, automatically fill in ID3 tags and album art, rename the files and sort them into new folders like so:
M:\Temp\...
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Moving symlinks into a folder based on id3 tags
I'm trying to get my music folder into something sensible. Right now, I have all my music stored in /home/foo so I have all of the albums soft linked to ~/music. I want the structure to be ~/music/<...
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Problem with Music Details
I have some music files and the information doesn't show up. Here they are in explorer:
As you can see, there is no information for track, title, artist, or album. This prevents me from syncing the ...
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