tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53568754821529962212024-03-13T16:12:49.262-05:00Mac Music Tagging - mp3, ID3, etcA list of music tag editors for the Apple Macintosh - mostly concentrating on mp3 id3 capable tag editors. With News and Updates...Babbingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758734885218465923noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356875482152996221.post-33655539583674459682011-04-25T11:54:00.002-05:002011-04-25T12:00:46.078-05:00Rinse by RealNetworksI've never been a fan of RealNetworks. Back in the day, their audio and video streaming plug-ins sucked big time. Needless to say, I don't have so much hope for their tagging software Rinse.<br /><br />The demo only allows you to "rinse" 50 songs - not much of a test of it's abilities.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.rinsemymusic.com/">Rinse</a>Babbingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758734885218465923noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356875482152996221.post-60511999337490954902011-03-10T12:33:00.003-05:002011-03-10T12:37:04.286-05:00Review in MacNN: TagaliciousTagalicious has received a 41/2 star review on MacNN. It's got more features than the version I checked out before.<br /><br />It's worth checking out if you haven't already.<br /><br />The review can be found <a href="http://www.macnn.com/reviews/tagalicious.html">here</a>.Babbingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758734885218465923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356875482152996221.post-88332982768768193192010-11-02T19:05:00.002-05:002010-11-02T19:12:34.775-05:00tagalicious is deliciousWhen I see a mac mp3 tagging program that claims to do automatic tagging, I generally get a little skeptical. My major concern is that there won't be a way to preview the changes and the tags will just be added automatically - a major problem, since no tag editor with info look-up is 100% accurate.<br /><br />That was the case when I first saw Tagalicious. But reading further on their website, I saw what I was hoping to find.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">"Review the track info Tagalicious finds for your songs before sending the changes to iTunes." </span><br /><br />Alright, I thought, this is worth a try.<br /><br />And I've got to tell everyone out there to give it a try as well. It's really well done and very accurate. It can even find lyrics!<br /><br /><a href="http://thelittleappfactory.com/tagalicious/">Tagalicious</a>Babbingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758734885218465923noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356875482152996221.post-43810501229982638842010-09-14T09:06:00.002-05:002010-09-14T09:26:20.460-05:00(off topic) ipod touch - back from the deadHere's a quick tip for those with a ipod touch that won't recharge or turn on. Leave it alone! I've had problems with my ipod touch battery draining - especially if I leave wifi on. Once I figured out that it was dead, I'd try the various key combinations to wake it up - holding down the home button and the sleep button at the same time for ten seconds - holding down the home and sleep buttons for ten seconds and then holding down the home button for a minute - holding down the home button and plugging in the usb cable, none of them worked.<br /><br />I would plug the thing in and it would start to feel a little warm. But then I'd try all those techniques again and they still wouldn't work. Eventually, I decided to get a new battery.<br /><br />I left the ipod touch unplugged for a couple days and then brought it to work so I could take it down to Tekserve and get a new battery. Just before I left, I decided to try plugging it in one more time - this time it started recharging!<br /><br />Then a few weeks later it died again. Again, I'd leave it plugged in, hoping it would recharge. Again, I'd try every key combination I could track down online.<br /><br />I was hanging out with a computer wiz friend of mine, discussing my problem. He mentioned that the ipod touch will go into a special mode when the battery is completely drained, so that the unit can be recharged.<br /><br />Then a thought occurred to me...<br /><br />What if there wasn't enough power to start up the unit, but too much power to have the ipod go into it's special recharging mode.<br /><br />So instead of plugging it in to recharge. I left it unplugged for a day or two and voila! It started recharging after I plugged it in and held down the home and sleep keys for ten seconds.<br /><br />Maybe this happened twice in a row out of luck, but it's worth a try.Babbingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758734885218465923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356875482152996221.post-5790553593575210212010-06-11T07:24:00.004-05:002010-06-11T07:32:13.336-05:00Tagr is a new TaggerTagr is another small tagging program. It's missing some basic features, like the ability to get tags from file names. It's new, so it might be worth checking in again to see if they update it.<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.entwicklungsfreu.de/">Tagr</a></div>Babbingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758734885218465923noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356875482152996221.post-52844300718119153942009-10-08T20:02:00.002-05:002009-10-08T20:09:03.411-05:00MP3-Info 2.0One of my absolute favorite utilities for fast and simple id3 editing has gotten a major upgrade. It's called <a href="http://www.cdfinder.de/en/en/en/mp3info.html">MP3-Info</a> and it's now a application rather than just a finder contextual menu add-on. <div><br /></div><div>Opening the application brings up a window that offers quick access to a menu for renaming your mp3 based on it's id3 tags. It's not incredibly flexible, but the choices of ways to rename the file are those that most people (myself included) would use. </div><div><br /></div><div>This is great for all those random mp3 files downloaded from blogs. A couple clicks and they're cleaned up.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.cdfinder.de/en/en/en/mp3info.html">MP3-Info 2.0</a></div>Babbingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758734885218465923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356875482152996221.post-80913836530902735282009-08-26T09:06:00.003-05:002009-08-26T09:19:13.520-05:00Tag&Rename on the MacHere's another option for adventurous souls: <a href="http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm">Tag&Rename</a> on the mac using <a href="http://www.kronenberg.org/darwine/">Darwine for OSX</a>.<br /><br />While doing a search to find some new tag editors, I came across posts describing the successful use of Darwine and Tag&Rename. I had used Tag&Rename to edit the tags on my mac using pc emulators, but the usage was always clunky and tended to freeze. Plus, I had to install windows and deal with all the pain that the windows os brings with it. (That's why I have a mac, right?)<br /><br />This time installing darwine and getting Tag&Rename up and running was much faster. I simply installed a Darwine build for OSX, found <a href="http://www.kronenberg.org/darwine/">here</a> and then downloaded the installer for Tag&Rename <a href="http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm">here</a>.<br /><br />So far it does a great job at those mass tagging jobs I always end up doing to get all my tags and file names consistent. I tried to drag and drop an image from the mac to apply the album art, but that didn't work.<br /><br />I'd be curious to hear other folk's experience with this option.Babbingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758734885218465923noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356875482152996221.post-62326983517705187892008-10-06T10:06:00.002-05:002008-10-06T10:09:16.126-05:00FixTunesFixTunes is another one of these "automatic" tag fixing utilities. I've yet to test this one, but, as with all these tag "fixers", I'm a little bit nervous, since I looked through the site and there doesn't appear to be an undo.<br /><br /><a href="http://fixtunes.com/">FixTunes</a>Babbingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758734885218465923noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356875482152996221.post-42761633174121860182008-10-03T16:26:00.002-05:002008-10-03T16:28:53.296-05:00The TaggerHere's another small scale tagger called - "The Tagger". Doesn't look terribly powerful, and the $29 price tag seems pretty steep - but hey, maybe someday it will grow up to be as powerful as Tag&Rename.<br /><br /><a href="http://getthetagger.com">The Tagger</a>Babbingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758734885218465923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356875482152996221.post-21974948454100861072008-02-12T11:25:00.000-05:002008-02-12T11:32:56.286-05:00IEatBrainz UniversalPierre Andrews took the IEatBrainz source code from SourceForge and has created a universal build of the automatic tagging software, IEatBrainz. <br /><br />IEatBrainz uses MusicBrainz acoustic matching in a attempt to figure out a song's tags - even if there are no tags available. Great for those mystery mp3s you have laying around.<br /><br /><a href="http://6v8.gamboni.org/IEatBrainz-Universal-Build.html">IEatBrainz Universal</a>Babbingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758734885218465923noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356875482152996221.post-21176113471608234682007-12-07T13:38:00.000-05:002007-12-07T13:43:36.936-05:00Tunes Tuner version 0.9 - public betaTunes Tuner isn't a tag editor, really, it's more of a tag "tweaker" (and tongue twister). It can do various text tweaks like capitalization and search & replace on your tags in iTunes.<br /><br /><a href="http://www013.upp.so-net.ne.jp/hiro-u/understair/us/TunesTuner.html">Tunes Tuner</a>Babbingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758734885218465923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356875482152996221.post-13142308194269994312007-10-31T13:55:00.000-05:002007-10-31T14:08:01.874-05:00Leopard - still no love for id3 tags in the finderI've been waiting for Leopard to come out in the hopes that finally we'd see support for viewing id3 tags in the finder. <br /><br />No such luck.<br /><br />Despite all the hoopla about coverflow and other features being added to the finder - making it more like iTunes, there isn't really an easy way to see a list of your mp3 files and tell whether or not they're tagged. Or sort them by artist, album, etc.<br /><br />The closest you get is when you use "quick look". Click once on a mp3, hit the space bar and you get a window that shows the song's id3 info along with a function that allows you to play - without having to open up another app. That's pretty cool - but far from what I was hoping for.<br /><br />Didn't Windoze '98 include the ability to view and sort folders by artist, album, etc? <br /><br />I guess we're expected to load all our mp3s into iTunes and view the info there...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/">Leopard</a>Babbingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758734885218465923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356875482152996221.post-90964921140117149812007-10-31T13:50:00.000-05:002007-10-31T13:54:30.480-05:00Picard from MusicBrainz (beta)I've been waiting for this one to come out for a while. The folks at MusicBrainz have been rewriting their tagging software so that it will work on a variety of platforms - including Mac OSX. It's still a beta, but it's worth a look.<br /><br /><a href="http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/PicardDownload">Picard</a>Babbingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758734885218465923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356875482152996221.post-70998399783745048632007-10-31T13:46:00.000-05:002007-10-31T13:50:10.600-05:00AutoTagX v3.00 ReleasedOne of my favorite tools for tagging has version 3 out and it's hot! This is definitely one to check out. Searches for tags using a variety of sources and then lets you pick which results are the best. Highly Recommended.<br /><br /><a href="http://autotagx.blogspot.com/">AutoTagX</a>Babbingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758734885218465923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356875482152996221.post-61747220317794043322007-08-31T11:48:00.000-05:002007-08-31T11:52:18.639-05:00Jaikoz v1.11.1 Build 1032 out nowWhole lot of ones in that version number! This update has some bug fixes. Time to take another look!<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.jthink.net/jaikoz/">jaikoz</a>Babbingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758734885218465923noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356875482152996221.post-29709628309011708132007-07-17T19:55:00.000-05:002007-07-17T20:09:34.733-05:00MPFreaker - 1.7 - New features, Same old problemsMPFreaker is out with version 1.7, but after giving this program another look, I simply can't recommend it. Why? No undo and no ability to quit without saving the changes to the files.<br /><br />That's right. If MPFreaker searches through the various databases and decides that your album is called Are You Expereinced by Jimmy Hendricks - you're stuck with it. <br /><br />...and we know how often freedb and other databases have typos, right?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.lairware.com/mpfreaker/">MPFreaker</a><br /><br />Try at your own risk.Babbingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758734885218465923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356875482152996221.post-26778232121345616782007-06-21T20:23:00.001-05:002007-06-21T20:33:01.179-05:00beaTunes 1.1.6This program certainly isn't a full-on id3 editor, but I was really surprised at the info it was able to pull up from the internet about some pretty obscure music. Sarolta Zalatnay anyone? It found a description for her pronto. It also finds bpm and fixes typos and genres. Worth checking out.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.beatunes.com/">beaTunes</a>Babbingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758734885218465923noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356875482152996221.post-17134038367215191182007-05-21T12:44:00.000-05:002007-05-21T13:39:32.688-05:00Corripio 0.7 - Now with plug-insnClass Software has just released a new version of Corripio, a freeware artwork and lyric finder. The latest version has a plug-in architecture for finding lyrics and artwork using scripts. Now if they'd add plug-in scripts for finding the correct track info from musicbrainz, freedb, etc. - that would be great. Right now they include some bare-bones tag editing support, but that's all.<br /><br /><a href="http://nclasssoftware.com/corripio">Corripio</a>Babbingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758734885218465923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356875482152996221.post-49439837208987647452007-05-01T16:06:00.000-05:002007-05-01T16:12:59.948-05:00MusicBrainz Picard QT Tagger for MacJust finished digging around the MusicBrainz forum and noticed that they are doing a rewrite of their Picard tagger - with a new GUI toolkit that would eventually make it able to run on macintosh. Right now it's too complicated (for me) to get up and running. Any ambitious taggers out there want to give it a shot?<br /><br /><a href="http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/PicardQt">Check it out</a>Babbingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758734885218465923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356875482152996221.post-80316553481182339002007-04-16T08:46:00.000-05:002007-04-16T08:55:36.651-05:00AutoTagX 3.00 beta 4 Now AvailableThere's a new beta of AutoTagX out and my tests with it have been very positive. It's got bug fixes for the various crashes during internet searching. This version works until July 12.<br /><br /><a href="http://autotagx.blogspot.com/2007/04/autotagx-300-beta-4.html">AutoTagX 3.00 beta 4</a>Babbingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758734885218465923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356875482152996221.post-41728036104994764912007-03-19T16:17:00.000-05:002007-03-19T16:24:25.301-05:00TuneTagger - another automatic tag fixer<a href="http://homepage.mac.com/simx/tunetagger.html">TuneTagger</a> is an automatic id3 tag fixer and artwork download program that works on the songs you have playing in iTunes. As a song plays, TuneTagger searches for missing id3 info, lyrics and artwork - all changes are subject to your approval. (good idea!) <br /><br /><a href="http://homepage.mac.com/simx/tunetagger.html">TuneTagger</a>Babbingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758734885218465923noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356875482152996221.post-59042549462045325292007-03-15T08:50:00.000-05:002007-03-15T09:12:38.324-05:00Musorg 0.2 Version Out NowLast time I looked at Musorg, it was just another simplistic tag editor. Version 0.2 adds bug fixes as well as multiple directory/file selection, improved FreeDB lookup and added support for additional tags like "Part of Compilation", "Album Artist" and "Disc Number". <br /><br />Did I mention it's freeware? Go check it out!<br /><br /><a href="http://peippo.eu/musorg/index.html">Musorg</a>Babbingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758734885218465923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356875482152996221.post-47992114183425158012007-02-12T13:01:00.000-05:002007-02-05T11:37:11.192-05:00Media Rage Version 3.0 ReleasedRats. Version 3.0 of Chaotic Software's Media Rage is out. Why am I complaining? Because Media Rage is blessed with one of the most annoying user interfaces of any id3 editor I've ever seen. Each time they come out with a new version, I feel compelled to take it for a test drive and see if it's any more intuitive. <br /><br />One new feature may help considerably. It's called "Tool Chain" and allows you to do different functions to a file or group of files in sequence. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.chaoticsoftware.com/ProductPages/MediaRage.html">Media Rage 3.0</a>Babbingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758734885218465923noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356875482152996221.post-25753020513818735472007-02-05T11:30:00.000-05:002007-02-05T11:37:11.261-05:00An important mp3 renamer I forgot to mention...I've had this list of Mac mp3 tag editors up for a while and I only now realized that I've forgotten one of my fave tools for quickly renaming my mp3s from their filenames. The tool is called MP3-Info CMM and it's a freeware contextual menu add-on that lets you see info about an mp3, shows you many of the tags and also lets you rename the file using some common rename patterns. It's perfect for those single mp3 files downloaded from blogs - if they remembered to add id3 tags, of course.<br /><br />Check it out.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.cdfinder.de/mp3info/index.html">MP3-Info</a>Babbingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758734885218465923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356875482152996221.post-31409480634173755332007-01-30T14:05:00.000-05:002007-01-30T14:11:12.378-05:00NexTune offers an iTunes alternativeI haven't tested this out yet, but this player claims to download info about your music from its database. Might have id3 tag correction, might not. But it looks like it definitely has something similar to TuneTags, which enables you to have keywords added to your music.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nextune.net/">NexTune</a>Babbingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758734885218465923noreply@blogger.com0