TAG Processor

The module is designed to automatically fill in tag data in batch mode.

Available operations:
Recommend to use Preview before complete any operation.

Get album infoformation from online source
Searching for album information from internet databases

Freedb , Tracktype

These online services allow to get only textual information and only for one disc at one time.
Recommend to use these services only to automatically search data for the selected tracks. For manual searches are encouraged to use other services.

You can choose between different methods for getting information:
Calculate DiscID from selected files Select all tracks from only one album in correct order.
Search in database Enter artist or album name in Search box.
Manual query Enter a DiskID by yourself. You can find a DiskID by using the search function at freedb.org.

Click Search to get info.

If you have problems displaying of received album info, click Convert codepage and choose the appropriate codepage from the menu.

If you want to write Artist name instead 'VA' into Artist tag for compilations, just uncheck Compilations.

Click Save to save the information into selected files.


Amazon , Discogs , MusicBrainz

These services allow to get text information and cover art for all types of media and support multidisc albums and compilations.

Enter searching params and click Search to get info. Then select album or any track from this album.

You can choose the option that you want to save to a file - the album information and/or cover art. Click Save to save the information into selected files.


Filename -> TAG
Generate Tag data from file/directory name.

The Format string describes the formatting scheme of the filename. The placeholders used to mark the parts of the filename which are copied to the tag
You can use special placeholder %skip% to ignore some parts of filename .

You can use the backslash to mark folders in the format string.

You can use the < > around placeholder to append additional text to part of filename directly in formatting string.

You can choose between different methods for handle Existing values :
Leave Don't change existing values
Update Update tag with generated values

Click Generate to save tag data into selected files..

Example - Get Artist and Title from filename
Filename: D:\MP3\Album Artist - 2010 - New Album\01 - Artist - Title
Scheme of filename: %skip% - %artist% - %title%
Results:
ARTIST = Artist
TITLE = Title
Example - Get complete data
Filename: D:\MP3\Album Artist - 2010 - New Album promo\01 - Artist - Title
Scheme of filename: %albumartist% - %year% - <%album% (Limited edition)> promo\%track% - %artist% - %title%
Results:
ALBUMARTIST = Album Artist
YEAR = 2010
ALBUM = New Album (Limited edition)
TRACK = 01
ARTIST = Artist
TITLE = Title


TAG fields mixer
Extract, format and mix tag fields values.

The Source string define input data for mixer .
The source string may contain of any characters and placeholders. Placeholders in this string will be replaced with the respective values.

The Scheme string describes the formatting scheme of the source string. The placeholders used to mark the parts of the source string which are copied to the tag.

Click Run to save tag data into selected files.

Example - TITLE field contain data in style: Artist \ Song Title
Source: %title%
Scheme: %artist% \ %title%
Results:
ARTIST = Artist
TITLE = Song Title
Example - swap ARTIST and TITLE
Source: %artist%~%title%
Scheme: %title%~%artist%
where ~ just any unique symbol.
Results:
ARTIST = Song Title
TITLE = Artist
Example - Append text to TITLE field
Source: some %title% text
Scheme: %title%
Results:
TITLE = some Title text


Text file -> TAG
Get tag data from text file.

Select Filename of the source text file.

The Format string describes the format of one line in the text file. The placeholders used to mark the parts of the source string which are copied to the tag.

You can skip a few lines from the beginning of the file.

Click Run to save tag data into selected files.

Example - Get data from CSV file
Format string: %artist%;%title%;%track%;
Results:
ARTIST = Artist
TITLE = Title
TRACK = 01
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