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Accessible auto tagging service for music files? (self.Blind)
submitted 5.189781893004115y ago by EndlessReverberation
Does anyone know of an accessible app/plug in/service for automatically generating meta data for music files? My music library is a bit of a mess, incorrect album info etc. In the past I have tried dealing with fixing tags one song at a time, but this is an extremely slow and inefficient process. I could really use something that could help clean up my tags, even if it's not quite perfect. My Google searches about this issue bring up solutions such as MusicBrainz Picard, but all of the apps I have tried do not seem to be accessible. I know I once heard someone talking about some kind of accessible auto tagging service, but that was years ago and I don't know which one they were talking about. Any suggestions or info would be very much appreciated; thanks in advance and have a great day.
fastfinge 2 points 5y ago
I use the foobar2000 media player, and use the mass tag editor. If your file names are correct, you can tell it how to convert those file names into tags. You can also edit tags for an entire album at once, and things like that. It also has plugins to get metadata from discoggs or cddb; you just have to tell it what album you're tagging. That way, you can at least tag album by album rather than song by song.
EndlessReverberation [OP] 1 points 5y ago
Thanks for the recommendation fastfinge. I had never heard of foobar2000 before, and I agree it is the best option for tagging that I came across. It’s a really great player for all kinds of reasons, I especially like the ability to set up global hot keys for media play back. I have been working towards getting rid of itunes, and now I’m one step closer, because I have changed my default audio file player on windows to foobar2000. Unfortunately, some of the tags I made with it did not sink over to google music properly, which is where I plan to play and deal with most of my music going forward. At least I can use foobar2000 for some basic tagging, and then adjust the tags once I upload new albums to google music. I wish Google would sort out a few issues with its music service, such as its poor tag support, accessibility issues, etc. O well, still the best option I know for music in the cloud.

Thanks again,
fastfinge 1 points 5y ago
Yeah, I also have trouble with tags syncing to google music. It'll be interesting to see what happens when they murge google music and youtube music into one product, like they say they will over the next year or so.
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