Comments on: MP3 Tags

By: Thom

Thom — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:21:23 +0000

I agree it couldn’t be full proof, but as you say often one or two tracks have Album Artist set so you could in those cases (automatically) copy that into all tracks.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:42:36 +0000

Thom, as Lyle points out I don’t think there is a really good automated way to do this. Tag & Rename is probably my best bet, it’ll populate selected MP3 tags with the info from another MP3 file (so you select first track of an album, and it’ll use the info for the other tracks too, bar trackname obv.)

By: Thom

Thom — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:03:37 +0000

OK, I’ve taken a quick look – I’ve already got some code than reads and exports iTunes playlists for my Sonos & it looks pretty straightforward to parse tracks & fill in Album Artist. The question is with what?

By: Thom

Thom — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:47:43 +0000

It might be worth checking some of the batch rename software as I know some of them can do tags & might be able to copy Artist into Album Artist.

It should be fairly painless to write something which would do this where Album Artist is blank.

Thinking about it if your library is in iTunes you could probably just use com object to do it in there. (on windows)

By: K

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:15:57 +0000

See the student you’re talking about, think they could do mine once done with yours?