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Is it possible to automatically tag mp3s? I tried picard on some, and it found less than 1 percent

i can use 'lookup' and do it manually, but can it be done automatically?

did you hit the cluster button?

its easier to cluster your files into album and then match albums

well let me see what that does

im not sure how many complete 'albums' i have

possibly not many

they don't have to be complete. but you need more than 1 or 2 tracks for it to work

thats pretty much what I have

a pile of assorted individual tracks

and no idea what album they do or do not go with

i seem to get the idea that it can take a 'fingerprint' of a track and use that to identify, yet it doesnt seem to do that

did you select the tracks and hit scan?

I have it set to scan on add, and it scanned all of them

most came up with 'couldnt find PUID ....'

can't help much then.

does that mean it isnt able to get a fingerprint from the track, or that its got one but it cant find a match for it anywhere?

MrQwerty` is now known as MrQwerty

most of them have at least partial id3 info.. it would be handy if it could use that to help find the authoritiative info

when I do 'lookup' at first it doesnt find anything, but if I blank out everything except the track name and artist name, then it can find it.. is there a way to tell it to try looking up with just those two pieces of info if it doesnt find anything with all the info?

might be handy to allow a certain 'fudge factor' on duration too.. i just found one that matched but the duration was one second off

you can play with the matching %s under advanced settings under options in the menu

you may have yours set a bit too stringent

ill try that.. they are set at whatever they are set to by default

ok.. just lowered them all to 25%

that may be a bit too flexible... /me check his settings

Try 65 70 75 70, I've had pretty good results with that

well it isnt finding any even at 25

always comes back with "up with 'couldnt find PUID ....'

does that mean it isnt able to get a fingerprint from the track, or that its got one but it cant find a match for it anywhere?

and if the former, is there something I need to do to 'generate' fingerprints for them?

also

when I start it

W: 3086620352 21:37:27 No decoders found! Fingerprinting will be disabled.

i wonder if that is signifigant, and how to correct it

what os?

fedora

I'm not a linux user, but I seem to recall you have to have the codec-equivs installed

doesnt seem to be any package by that name

no, I mean the equivalent codecs

lol, you really need a real linux picard user, I'm out of what I know about using it on linux here :P

well all the files are mp3, and I certainly have mp3 installed

but yes, not having fingerprinting enabled will make puid-lookups useless

seems to rather defaut the entire purpose of the software

well, the software still works fine for tagging, just puid lookups need to know how to handle type x multimedia, if you don't have the support for type x that it needs, it can't generate a puid to look up

its a rather huge app for just 'tagging' by hand.. there already exist cli tools that can do that

anyway

it seems to want ffmpeg, which I certainly have..

as I say, what you need is a linux user who can tell you what might be missing

i'llaround

200 gigs.. wow

thats a lot of music

Hi all. Does "EP" go in the ReleaseTitle if it's printed on the cover? http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/index.html?edi...

Found a thread that says picard needs ffmpeg to fingerprint mp3's. I have ffmpeg installed, yet I still get "No decoders found" when I start picard

wtf do I need to install so that it can find ffmpeg, or whatever else it needs

the thread was from 07. I would think that there would be a solution documented somewhere

djc__ again, I'm not the expert by far, but it seems to be ffmpeg related. Take a look at http://forums.musicbrainz.org/viewtopic.php?pid...

otherwise, luks is the best to help you

and if you solve it, feel free to add the solution to the wiki :)

(s/him/Freso/ for the slow ones...)

drupal freak :P

nvm.. i got something called pinky tagger working

i want a thumb tagger

is there a really good rating plugin for foobar?

or maybe some other nice media player?

Thank you for today's battle, and sleep well all!

MrQwerty` is now known as MrQwerty

hi

style question: a double cd that has on the backside two different names. should it be added as two different releases or?

what names?

let me upload the cover.