foo_musicbrainz, MusicBrainz Tagger Options

[Dremora]

Allows tagging files using data from MusicBrainz.

Features:

• Fetches data by automatically calculated MusicBrainz Disc ID, existing Artist/Album or MusicBrainz Album ID tags;
• Uses the latest version of MusicBrainz web service, which corresponds to the NGS data model;
• Supports many different tags, including artist, album, date, tracknumber/totaltracks, discnumber/totaldiscs, label, catalognumber, barcode etc.;
• Supports MusicBrainz-specific tags: Artist ID, Album ID, Release Group ID, Disc ID, Track ID, album type, album status;
• Missing TOCs can be submitted to MusicBrainz from the context menu.

For the list of planned features, see issue tracker.

Any feedback or suggestions are appreciated!

Download foo_musicbrainz 0.3 | Join Last.fm group | Get source on Github



Note regarding TOC submission:
Submit new TOCs to MusicBrainz only if you know what you are doing. Use only full rips from trusted sources (so, most likely, the files should orignate from a CD of your own). Choose release wisely — if your version of an album doesn't exist, add a new one. That means, if you don't know the version, don't submit.
To submit TOC, select all tracks belonging to a single disc and choose “Tagging → Add TOC to MusicBrainz” from the context menu. This feature is available only for registered MusicBrainz users.

Version history

CODE

v0.3 (2012-06-24)
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* Fixed crash when metadata has different track count
* New tag: original release date

v0.3 beta 2 (2011-06-03)
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* NGS support;
* New tags: musicbraiz_releasegroupid, label, catalognumber, barcode, totaldiscs;
* Proxy support;
* Option to convert punctuation to ASCII;
* Open-sourced.

v0.2.1 (2011-05-21) (requires foobar2000 1.1 or newer)
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* Added ability to submit new TOCs from the context menu;
* CDStubs are excluded from search;
* Preferences page is now using latest API;
* foo_musicbrainz has been added to the components repository, so from now on in can be updated automatically.

v0.2 (2009-04-10)
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* Added preferences page;
* Added ability to edit queries.

v0.1 (2009-03-23)
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* Initial release.

This post has been edited by Dremora: Jul 25 2012, 00:40

[Bryan in Hawaii]

OK I'm between jobs again so that means I have time to play with (aka screw up) my music. Bear with me as I undoubtedly ask a stupid question. But if you are going to throw me up against a wall, send me a private email

I've got thousands of music files. I've moved from MP3s to HC-AAC (M4As) due to reduced file size. I am very critical of how my music sounds, but I wanted to find a balance with quantity vs. quality, especially with mobile devices, namely my wife's and my cell phones as we are both HC-AAC friendly. I'm also trying to move away from iTunes (thank goodness they finally acknowledge HC-AAC M4As), but still need to use it because of this problem.

The question is - when I update tags in iTunes, most of the time they show up in Foobar correctly, or visa versa. But I notice that [sometimes] certain fields are either not there or incorrect, such as Date (I like just the year of release), or comments, or track information may be missing.

Yeah I know - why use iTunes and fb2k ... it's not so much that I use both, it's so that when I share a file or two with my iEquip'd friends, I would like them to also see the tagged data I updated. When I get a song, I try to update it with the original release information (the album that it was originally released on, the year and the album artwork). Most of my stuff are 60's and 70's stuff.

So, any feedback would be appreciated. (Also any help in how to save album artwork to the MP4/M4A in fb2k would be nice, too!)

And apologies if I've entered this in the wrong area.

This post has been edited by Bryan in Hawaii: Feb 16 2010, 21:11