What are you ripping?

[DavidW]

What does that link do that I can't do on iTunes?

It allows you to retag everything ALL AT ONCE!  MUHAHAHA!!

[Mn Dave]

It allows you to retag everything ALL AT ONCE!  MUHAHAHA!!

I should read the instructions but what do you mean "all at once? "

[DavidW]

I should read the instructions but what do you mean "all at once? "

Suppose you realized that your Beethoven wasn't tagged right, composer is sometimes blank, sometimes says Beethoven, other times Ludwig van Beethoven.  You could pull up the directories for all of your Beethoven, select all files change the composer tag and save it to all of them at the same time.  It's like that.  Awesome.

[Mn Dave]

Suppose you realized that your Beethoven wasn't tagged right, composer is sometimes blank, sometimes says Beethoven, other times Ludwig van Beethoven.  You could pull up the directories for all of your Beethoven, select all files change the composer tag and save it to all of them at the same time.  It's like that.  Awesome.

Ah, I see. Very cool. And it works on a Mac?

[Gurn Blanston]

Ah, I see. Very cool. And it works on a Mac?

Hell no, nothing works on a Mac...     But if you have that lifesaving Windows Emulator program it will work well.



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[DavidW]

Sorry Dave, I didn't even think about that.  I guess I'm too Windows orientated.

[Mn Dave]

That's okay. I'm used to it. 

[snyprrr]

pull my finger?

[Coco]

Ah, I see. Very cool. And it works on a Mac?

You can do that in iTunes though.

[Mn Dave]

You can do that in iTunes though.

I know you can highlight a group of tracks and change them all at once but they're usually all in a row.

[DavidW]

I know you can highlight a group of tracks and change them all at once but they're usually all in a row.

With selective searching you might be able to get exactly the right group of tracks, but it's still much easier to do it in mp3tag.  Also you can rename files based on tags and vica versa.  It really is a cool program.

[Mn Dave]

With selective searching you might be able to get exactly the right group of tracks, but it's still much easier to do it in mp3tag.  Also you can rename files based on tags and vica versa.  It really is a cool program.

ITunes probably does all that, I'd just have to figure out how. 

[Opus106]

You can do that in iTunes though.

ITunes probably does all that, I'd just have to figure out how. 

Suppose that you are ripping a bunch of disks containing all of Schubert's piano sonatas. And let's suppose that you notice on closer inspection that a lot of the title tags are messed: pianosonata no..., PIano sonata no..., panoo sonata no..., fortepiano(Gurn made me do it) sonata NO..., etc. Think about how you would go about correcting all those in iTunes. Now with mp3Tag, coupled with the almighty Regex, you can change all that to "Piano sonata No..." in one fell swoop. (And that's just one of the simplest cases.)

[Mn Dave]

Suppose that you are ripping a bunch of disks containing all of Schubert's piano sonatas. And let's suppose that you notice on closer inspection that a lot of the title tags are messed: pianosonata no..., PIano sonata no..., panoo sonata no..., fortepiano(Gurn made me do it) sonata NO..., etc. Think about how you would go about correcting all those in iTunes. Now with mp3Tag, coupled with the almighty Regex, you can change all that to "Piano sonata No..." in one fell swoop. (And that's just one of the simplest cases.)

Yeah, iTunes should be able to do that too.

[Coco]

Yes, iTunes still doesn't have (IIRC) a mass-tagging function for the title field. Would save me so much time.

[Opus106]

Yeah, iTunes should be able to do that too.

(Without an emoticon, I can't be sure if you're joking or not ), but NO! I didn't mean the whole title, just the incorrect parts all at once.

[Opus106]

Yes, iTunes still doesn't have (IIRC) a mass-tagging function for the title field. Would save me so much time.

And the title field was just an example. What I said is applicable to any field.

[DavidW]

Yeah, iTunes should be able to do that too.

No itunes can't handle regular expressions.

[DavidW]

You know I hate itunes.  Rant time!  When adding media, it takes three times longer (and I'm not exaggerating) on itunes than it does on winamp, media monkey, or foobar.  It is absolutely hands down the worst media player.  Since I've really gotten into using other players I realize that in almost every way itunes is a poor program: bloated, slow, poor UI... I'll only use it for managing my ipod, nothing more.

[Lethevich]

It's also by far the most overtly evil in terms of purporting to be the user's best friend but in fact doing its best to make the files difficult to use by any other program once it gets its claws into them. I just can't see the appeal