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Re:Mp3tag – The Universal Tag Editor by disposition2 on Friday May 24, 2024 @03:47PM (#40469840)
If you haven’t already looked in to it, beets might be a solution for you

https://beets.io/

Re:Mp3tag – The Universal Tag Editor by res0nat0r on Friday May 24, 2024 @04:36PM (#40470287)
I highly recommend Musicbrainz Picard: https://picard.musicbrainz.org/

It will match against the Musicbrainz database and will acoustically ID your files, so the tags can be completely wrong and it can ID the song from it's sound fingerprint. Just dump folders of albums into the client, it will group and sort things and ID them. It works great.

Re:Mp3tag – The Universal Tag Editor by xvilka on Friday May 24, 2024 @08:06PM (#40471574)
I only wish it wasn't written in Python - writing good GUI apps is way too hard with it, also the lack of static typing makes development of anything beyond simple scripts a potential minefield.
Re:Mp3tag – The Universal Tag Editor by xvilka on Friday May 24, 2024 @08:01PM (#40471554)
I wish there had been something like MusicBrainz but for movies, they now have BookBrainz[1] so that would have covered most aspects of digital content.

[1] https://bookbrainz.org/

Re:Mp3tag – The Universal Tag Editor by mmastrac on Friday May 24, 2024 @04:42PM (#40470321)
It's a miraculous project. I have something like 300+ albums from 170+ artists and it tooks me only a few days to cleanly retag everything, with about 99% of the albums just working.
Re:Mp3tag – The Universal Tag Editor by deadbunny on Friday May 24, 2024 @07:00PM (#40471238)
I'll 2nd Picard. Been using it for years (and contributing to musicbrains for years).
Re:Mp3tag – The Universal Tag Editor by selvin on Friday May 24, 2024 @04:50PM (#40470385)
Musicbrainz Picard: highly recommended
Re:Mp3tag – The Universal Tag Editor by thaumasiotes on Saturday May 25, 2024 @04:27AM (#40473543)
> It will match against the Musicbrainz database and will acoustically ID your files, so the tags can be completely wrong and it can ID the song from it's sound fingerprint.

For songs that have covers, it will ID the song as any of a number of similar covers. I just tried to use it to tag something from the Grease 2007 revival soundtrack (which, as of this writing, doesn't exist in Musicbrainz), and it happily identified it as the same song from the 1994 revival, which is wrong. This makes me hesitant to use it to identify songs if I don't already know what the identification should be.