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musicIP: automatic tag fixing?

I found this quite exciting:

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“Tag Fixing is an exciting new feature for the MusicIP product line,” said Dr. Matthew Dunn, CEO of MusicIP. “People get music from many sources – not just CDs. Our patented acoustic fingerprinting technology enables consistent track recognition, so we can fix the mess for users automatically.”
In their commitment to helping and improving the entire digital music ecosystem, MusicIP has also made the tag-fixing data freely available to software developers. MusicDNS, the industry’s largest content identification system, provides developers commercial and open-source code libraries to query for song IDs and metadata. MusicDNS access is free.


However, my excitement fell downhill when I kept reading:
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One example of an application with MusicIP’s tag-fixing functionality built in is the Picard Tagger by MusicBrainz


I found piccard to be too slow/inaccurate to be worth the effort.
But anyone hacking some tag fixing tool has my sympathy. I spend silly hours doing this by hand.

Thoughts?
 

musicIP: automatic tag fixing?

Reply #1 –
I haven't used Piccard, but I've been beta-testing the upcoming MusicIP release and am generally pleased with the results.  You can set which fields you want to check against, and there's an easy feedback loop to say if the database whether is incorrect (or you'd rather not use suggested values for particular tracks).  It's far from a one-step process, but it's an essential part of my ripping process now.