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Music Tagger Software That Works "Offline"

Hi all. I was wondering if it is out there a software that is capable of getting tags informations of a track by scanning a local database, instead of connecting to the web and search for tags. My idea was this: i have a bunch of gigs of music i need to tag, but i prefer to do it myself (i am so finicky with these type of things), but actually i don't have an internet connection in the place i'm supposed to do this, so i needed a software that, by scanning a track, suggests me a list the tags to put, but that gives me the opportunity of reading them tags or some kind of alternative like exporting the tags to a text file or smh so that i can access them, and then tag files myself. I mostly need to work with mp3 files, but also wav and flac. It would be cool if it could read local tags by databases like the one where Exact Audio Copy picks up tags from, but even musicbrain, freedb and other i probably don't know about. Is there such of a software? Or some kind of alternative? Thank you in advance
EDIT: i'll be running it from a windows 7 sp1 netbook

Music Tagger Software That Works "Offline"

Reply #1 –
Have a look at freedb offline database. I've never used it, so I can't offer any advice. But it looks like what you need.
That's so plausible, I can't believe it.

Music Tagger Software That Works "Offline"

Reply #2 –
mp3tag can work with a local freedb database, although I've never tried it.  I can, however, vouch for mp3tag itself - it's been by primary tagging program for several years now, and I've never had a reason to try anything else.

You mention WAV files...note that while there is a "standard" for tagging WAVs, finding two programs that implement it exactly the same is quite rare, i.e. you can certainly tag them (although I don't know if mp3tag can), but good luck on finding playback software that will read them correctly, if at all.

Unless they must remain WAV files for some compatibility reason, I would strongly suggest converting any WAVs you have to FLAC (since you mentioned that you already use it), for which there is a well-defined - and adhered to! - tagging standard.
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