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What about the metadata? Do you listen to whole CDs at a time? I find that adding the tags for each song takes more time than all of the other steps you mention
by glitchc 2y ago
What about the metadata? Do you listen to whole CDs at a time? I find that adding the tags for each song takes more time than all of the other steps you mentioned. Of course I use Mp3tag for that, but still, would be nice to auto populate somehow.
- Pxtl 2y agoWhat metadata do you mean? Like the regular ID3 tags? Most tools so a decent job finding those on online DBs. I use musicbrainz Picard personally.
- glitchc 2y agoTrack titles, contributing artists, year of issue, genre(s), that sort of data. Once filled in, say in EAC, it carries over mostly to other tools.
- sandreas 2y agobeets corrects all the metadata in a very automagic and decent way. If you never tried, it's open source software and totally free. It takes some time to configure and get used to, but it is worth it.
- sandreas 2y agoEAC (Exact Audio Copy) has a Metadata provider, which matches the audio CDs and pulls data from different sources. That said, beet (beets.io) is much more convinient / accurate / easy to use and once it is configured properly. EAC has partly inserted the most important metadata stuff (artist, album, etc.) after ripping. So I use a cronjob, that runs `beet import` with "ignore if no match is found", that fully automates the process of embedding the metadata (also cover, lyrics and so on). Works really well and I don't need to perform ONE mnaual step. Although Mp3Tag is a great tool (and I mean really great), doing all the tagging manually costs just too much time.