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      • parabola
        the metadata should be intact on 99% of it
      • 2011-01-09 00905, 2011

      • parabola
        its just fucking itunes
      • 2011-01-09 00905, 2011

      • namnatulco
        but it doesn't have the drag'n'drop from a folder that I like about musicbrainz
      • 2011-01-09 00909, 2011

      • parabola
        i have artist\cd\ blah
      • 2011-01-09 00920, 2011

      • parabola
        so i need to get original folders back
      • 2011-01-09 00937, 2011

      • parabola
        my collection is large, so its hard to test this properly
      • 2011-01-09 00940, 2011

      • parabola
        due to immense scanning times
      • 2011-01-09 00903, 2011

      • namnatulco
        well, musicbrainz works well for tagging albums, not really for individual tracks
      • 2011-01-09 00913, 2011

      • parabola
        its all full albums
      • 2011-01-09 00924, 2011

      • parabola
        but i REALLY dont want to select the songs
      • 2011-01-09 00927, 2011

      • parabola
        hit cluster, then repeat
      • 2011-01-09 00939, 2011

      • parabola
        i cant even tell you how horrid that would be
      • 2011-01-09 00948, 2011

      • luks
        what do you want to do?
      • 2011-01-09 00958, 2011

      • namnatulco
        what I do is drag the albums on the left pane, click there, hit ctrl+a, click cluster, then select albums and hit ctrl+s
      • 2011-01-09 00911, 2011

      • parabola
        have a client that scans my music directory, rebuilds directory structure and song names
      • 2011-01-09 00928, 2011

      • luks
        then you load all the files into picard
      • 2011-01-09 00931, 2011

      • parabola
        dir: ARTIST-CD-YEAR
      • 2011-01-09 00935, 2011

      • luks
        unclick the "Save tags" checkbox
      • 2011-01-09 00937, 2011

      • luks
        hit save
      • 2011-01-09 00941, 2011

      • parabola
        song: TRACKNUM-ARTIST-SONG
      • 2011-01-09 00948, 2011

      • parabola
        luks: you know how long 50,000 files takes to load
      • 2011-01-09 00952, 2011

      • parabola
        last time i did it and hit lookup
      • 2011-01-09 00954, 2011

      • parabola
        it crashed
      • 2011-01-09 00954, 2011

      • luks
        I don't know
      • 2011-01-09 00957, 2011

      • luks
        try it in batches
      • 2011-01-09 00957, 2011

      • parabola
        well it wont work
      • 2011-01-09 00901, 2011

      • parabola
        which you cannot do
      • 2011-01-09 00905, 2011

      • luks
        don't use lookup if you don't want it to write tags
      • 2011-01-09 00906, 2011

      • parabola
        as you cant select more than one folder at a time
      • 2011-01-09 00919, 2011

      • parabola
        so lookup writes the data on its own?
      • 2011-01-09 00923, 2011

      • parabola
        no need for the save button?
      • 2011-01-09 00923, 2011

      • luks
        no
      • 2011-01-09 00925, 2011

      • parabola
        jesus christ
      • 2011-01-09 00942, 2011

      • parabola
        oh good :)
      • 2011-01-09 00948, 2011

      • luks
        all I'm saying is that if you don't want MB metadata, you don't ever need the right panel
      • 2011-01-09 00956, 2011

      • luks
        so you don't need to lookup anything
      • 2011-01-09 00959, 2011

      • parabola
        okay
      • 2011-01-09 00902, 2011

      • luks
        you just load the files and hit save
      • 2011-01-09 00912, 2011

      • parabola
        and it will rename in proper folders?
      • 2011-01-09 00914, 2011

      • luks
        but you first have to configure it to not save tags
      • 2011-01-09 00918, 2011

      • luks
        just rename files
      • 2011-01-09 00920, 2011

      • luks
        yes
      • 2011-01-09 00931, 2011

      • parabola
        thanks for the info
      • 2011-01-09 00933, 2011

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      • 2011-01-09 00935, 2011

      • parabola
        ill have to do this some other time
      • 2011-01-09 00940, 2011

      • parabola
        since theres no easy way to configure the tagging
      • 2011-01-09 00947, 2011

      • parabola
        and theres no preview of your settings
      • 2011-01-09 00952, 2011

      • luks
        see the three menu items in the Options menu
      • 2011-01-09 00954, 2011

      • parabola
        i have no fucking idea hwo to get what i want
      • 2011-01-09 00905, 2011

      • parabola
        yup
      • 2011-01-09 00906, 2011

      • parabola
        its on save tags
      • 2011-01-09 00914, 2011

      • luks
        well, I can see preview
      • 2011-01-09 00920, 2011

      • namnatulco
        parabola: it works the same as any other tagging program, afaik (I used mp3tag on windows)
      • 2011-01-09 00923, 2011

      • nikki
        hmm...
      • 2011-01-09 00927, 2011

      • parabola
        mine didnt :(
      • 2011-01-09 00938, 2011

      • parabola
        its fine ill play iwth it later
      • 2011-01-09 00943, 2011

      • parabola
        i might end up deleting everything mistagged
      • 2011-01-09 00947, 2011

      • parabola
        and reripping crap
      • 2011-01-09 00950, 2011

      • parabola
        its goign to be faster
      • 2011-01-09 00903, 2011

      • parabola
        if i had spent 3 months reading the wiki and every doc im sure it wouldnt be
      • 2011-01-09 00910, 2011

      • parabola
        but as this is a one time use, time invested
      • 2011-01-09 00920, 2011

      • luks
        you really don't have to right attitude to get something done :)
      • 2011-01-09 00929, 2011

      • namnatulco
        I'm not even sure what your goal is, tbh, but maybe I should read my backlog:)
      • 2011-01-09 00937, 2011

      • parabola
        namnatulco: undo what itunes did
      • 2011-01-09 00952, 2011

      • parabola
        namnatulco: wife +itunes + fileserver = ruined muisc
      • 2011-01-09 00959, 2011

      • parabola
        not all thank god, i saw it happening
      • 2011-01-09 00906, 2011

      • parabola
        unplugged the switch real quick
      • 2011-01-09 00910, 2011

      • parabola
        lol
      • 2011-01-09 00915, 2011

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      • parabola
        i dont want artist\cd's\tracks
      • 2011-01-09 00933, 2011

      • namnatulco
        it did what, move the files or mess up the ID3 tags?
      • 2011-01-09 00936, 2011

      • parabola
        its nasty to look at
      • 2011-01-09 00945, 2011

      • parabola
        move the files back, and rename the files it changed to useless tags
      • 2011-01-09 00959, 2011

      • parabola
        tracknum SPACE - SPACE Song name
      • 2011-01-09 00904, 2011

      • parabola
        110% useless
      • 2011-01-09 00905, 2011

      • Casper
        Hi there, is there any other software than picard that can tag and also a manager like thing that can also tag and all? for linux, of course :D
      • 2011-01-09 00913, 2011

      • parabola
        Casper: lol
      • 2011-01-09 00917, 2011

      • parabola
        Casper: jaikoz
      • 2011-01-09 00919, 2011

      • parabola
        but its not free
      • 2011-01-09 00922, 2011

      • parabola
        its 30 bucks
      • 2011-01-09 00931, 2011

      • VxJasonxV
        jaikoz doesn't run on linux
      • 2011-01-09 00936, 2011

      • parabola
        yes, it does
      • 2011-01-09 00943, 2011

      • parabola
        probobly should go look at the authors page
      • 2011-01-09 00944, 2011

      • VxJasonxV
        does it?
      • 2011-01-09 00946, 2011

      • parabola
        yes
      • 2011-01-09 00950, 2011

      • VxJasonxV
        huh, I'll be
      • 2011-01-09 00950, 2011

      • parabola
        osx/linux/windows
      • 2011-01-09 00957, 2011

      • Casper
        "Jaikoz is available for Mac OS X, Windows XP/Vista and Linux. Watch Demo Video"
      • 2011-01-09 00900, 2011

      • parabola
        :)
      • 2011-01-09 00906, 2011

      • VxJasonxV
        linux support is relatively recent sn't it?
      • 2011-01-09 00913, 2011

      • VxJasonxV
        last I looked, perhaps over a year ago, it wasn't
      • 2011-01-09 00916, 2011

      • VxJasonxV
        So I thought
      • 2011-01-09 00919, 2011

      • VxJasonxV
        whatever, doesn't matter
      • 2011-01-09 00934, 2011

      • VxJasonxV
        parabola, if you want help, ask for help. In generall: slow down and ask A question and we can help.
      • 2011-01-09 00947, 2011

      • namnatulco
        parabola: if you want to do file moving while you have the correct tags, this may help: $if2(%albumartist%,%artist%) - %album%/$num(%tracknumber%,2) - %title%
      • 2011-01-09 00950, 2011

      • VxJasonxV
        Even if it organized your files wrong, all the tag information is there, you can change your rename settings and organize it better
      • 2011-01-09 00912, 2011

      • namnatulco
        syntax should be fairly obvious from that
      • 2011-01-09 00927, 2011

      • Casper
        and in the free category?
      • 2011-01-09 00954, 2011

      • VxJasonxV
        alternatively, if you do va comps, you might like "$num(%tracknumber%,2) - %artist% - %title%" on the end instead
      • 2011-01-09 00910, 2011

      • VxJasonxV
        Casper, can amarok do this kind of stuff nowadays?
      • 2011-01-09 00940, 2011

      • VxJasonxV
        The following new features are included as well:
      • 2011-01-09 00941, 2011

      • VxJasonxV
        Mass-tagging UI using Musicbrainz
      • 2011-01-09 00951, 2011

      • VxJasonxV
        just now, apparently. 2.4 beta 1
      • 2011-01-09 00900, 2011

      • Casper
        VxJasonxV: dunnot, last time I used amarok I hated it too much, bulky and crashey... so I use the slightly better audacious (I miss xmms, before they dropped the project and started to freeze)
      • 2011-01-09 00911, 2011

      • VxJasonxV
        xmms is still around
      • 2011-01-09 00919, 2011

      • VxJasonxV
        and there is always xmms2, though it doesn't write stuff back last I knew
      • 2011-01-09 00924, 2011

      • Casper
        around, but abandonware
      • 2011-01-09 00934, 2011

      • Casper
        and very bugged
      • 2011-01-09 00939, 2011

      • VxJasonxV
        unless there's some show stopping bug, there's no problem with abandonware
      • 2011-01-09 00948, 2011

      • VxJasonxV
        you could always check out mpd, beep, or one of the other based on xmms clones
      • 2011-01-09 00900, 2011

      • VxJasonxV
        mmmm, amarok is cross platform now.
      • 2011-01-09 00910, 2011

      • namnatulco
        VxJasonxV: I think he wants the release year in it, whats the code for that?
      • 2011-01-09 00922, 2011

      • namnatulco
        I just tried %year% but it didn't seem to work.
      • 2011-01-09 00924, 2011

      • VxJasonxV
        hmm, good question
      • 2011-01-09 00932, 2011

      • VxJasonxV
        I used to use year
      • 2011-01-09 00937, 2011

      • VxJasonxV
        it's like, $left(%date%,4) ?
      • 2011-01-09 00938, 2011

      • Casper
        yeah I use audacious right now, but it lack many features that make search difficult (specially since they stupidly removed the "search in filename" so no tag no find)
      • 2011-01-09 00916, 2011

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      • namnatulco
        BTW, if you really hate MB that much, try mp3tag through wine: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=…
      • 2011-01-09 00904, 2011

      • VxJasonxV
        yeah, to get a release year, I suggest something like... uhhh
      • 2011-01-09 00916, 2011

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      • ddaydj
        can i get votes on this? disc 1 and 2 went through but 3 is still pending and its messing up my sorting >< http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=13770473
      • 2011-01-09 00941, 2011

      • VxJasonxV
        $if(%date%,$left(%date%,4),)
      • 2011-01-09 00903, 2011

      • VxJasonxV
        (Year) only if available
      • 2011-01-09 00904, 2011

      • VxJasonxV
        $if(%date%,\($left(%date%,4)\))
      • 2011-01-09 00907, 2011

      • VxJasonxV
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      • ddaydj
        is asking for votes here frowned upon?
      • 2011-01-09 00928, 2011

      • luks
        only if you do it too often :)
      • 2011-01-09 00949, 2011

      • ddaydj
        try not to
      • 2011-01-09 00951, 2011

      • ddaydj
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      • nikki
        yeah, if you come here asking for every edit to be voted on for no good reason, people will just be annoyed, but every once in a while is fine, particularly if you need something to pass so you can do something else
      • 2011-01-09 00926, 2011

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      • ddaydj
        for game soundtracks, shouldn't "original soundtrack" be omitted in most cases? since there's rarely an ost 1 and 2, and all arranged albums have a clearly different name
      • 2011-01-09 00906, 2011

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