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FLAC tag problems

I was trying to fix some songs with tag scanner and now my entire collection is under one album name. I am very frustrated and was wondering if there is any program out there that will look at file name or current tag and download the correct information from cddb or another database? If so could you please post said program?

Thanks,

A stressed audiophile lol

FLAC tag problems

Reply #1 –
There are programs that will write tags to your files based on the path and filename. "Tag & Rename," while not freeware, will do this.

FLAC tag problems

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FLAC tag problems

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MP3tag is also one of these tagging applications mentioned by Cosmo. It can write the album tag based on the directory and filename structure via the context menu with "Converter" ---> "Filename - Tag". There you can define a fitting pattern to tell MP3tag how to read the informations found in the directories and filenames. This one is the structure used by myself:
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\Artist\[Year] Album\Track. Title.ext

An example looks like this then:
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 \Primordial\[2007] To the Nameless Dead\04. Failures Burden.m4a

To make MP3tag transfer these informations into the tags, the "Filename - Tag" pattern has to be written this way:
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%artist%\[%year%] %album%\%track%. %title%

As you can see here, it's possible to parse the entire folder structure by putting backslashes in the correct places. Given the fact that you properly set up your audio collection it's quite easy to recover the lost data.
 

FLAC tag problems

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There are programs that will write tags to your files based on the path and filename. "Tag & Rename," while not freeware, will do this.
TagScanner can do this as well and quite easily.