Simple tagging tool?

nico-- · n00b Joined: 29 Jul 2002 Posts: 59

I'm looking for a program that will let me edit id3 tags in single files. Something like the editor in xmms but standalone. Extra features are fine as long as they don't get in the way. I tried Easy Tag and find it too mass-tagging oriented and too complicated.

Does such a thing exist?
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DrZoidberg · Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 3:21 am Post subject:

I know what you mean. I learned to live with easytag--it's not so bad once you disable its annoying autosearching at startup and get used to its strange user interface. I've paid money for worse tag editors. I know of no other tag editor that can do a CDDB lookup of a selected group (in order) of mp3s/flacs/oggs and usually guess the right album/artist.

I think there is something for ROX filemanager that lets you edit an mp3 file's tag with a right click on the mp3's icon. ROX is ok for PDAs and old,slow machines but I find it too clunky compared to KDE/GNOME.

If you do find something nice and simple, let me know. Whatever you do, pick one tag editor and stick with it. Otherwise you are very likely to end up with an ID3 V X.X mess which will make your music hard to find on your ipod/zen/neuros/whatever player. (i.e. hundreds of unparsed tags resulting in a huge album with really uncreative song names by somebody called "Unknown Artist.")

placeholder · Advocate Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 2500

I use tagtool and it completely blows away easytag. It is in portage as well so you can just emerge it. Cheers.

DrZoidberg: How is ROX clunky? I use it because I cannot stand the other file managers and I like how it resizes to what I need and such. I also like the speed and such, and the expandability.

http://pstudios.ath.cx/screenshots/rox.png

DrZoidberg · Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 2:16 pm Post subject:

Has tagtool gotten better? I tried it a while ago and it just choked and seg faulted on my (admittedly hairy and goofed up) mp3/ogg tags. I have about 20GB of music I have been carrying around for about 5 years;it seems like whenever I think the tags are perfect I get some new piece of hard/software that can't read them.
I'm hoping ogg vorbis will fare better in the long run.
Since everything is working well enough, I think I might just take your word for it and not experiment. At least until my Neuros player breaks and I buy a new player which, of course, will only be able to understand about half of my tags.

placeholder · Advocate Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 2500

Oh okay. I only like the file manager, and I agree with the rest of what you said.

Anyway, Audio Tag Tool has never crashed on me so it is safe to say that is has gotten better.