I have finished programming Tag 2.0, there are two binary versions available, one with support for reading and removing ID3v2 tags, one without.
I have also released the sources.

All files available at http://www.ca5e.tk/.

Thanks, this is one useful little program. Do you know if Speek is planning to update his tag front-end to reflect the changes in 2.0 ?

Yes, he's implementing some of the features.

Hey Case and Speek,

You guys have done an amazing piece of work with Tag and the frontend. This is a really handy tool whih I use quite regularly now.

Just one feature I thought would be great if you added it:

The playlist feature currently makes a list of all files added to the list. This is great since it adds the #extinf from the file's tags.

Now usually, before burning a CD, I make a playlist as follows:

Suppose my directory structure is:

Artist1 <DIR>
----Album 1 <SUBDIR>
----Album2 <SUBDIR>
Artist 2 <DIR>
Artist 3 <DIR>
.
.
.
Playlist.m3u <File on CDROM root>

Where Playlist.m3u resides in the root of the CD, I do the following steps before burning:


1. Go to the root folder and execute dir /s/b *.mpc > Playlist.m3u
2. Remove the Drive: to make it independent of the CDROM drive letter.
3. Scroll thru the playlist in Winamp (to get the Artist and title and hence #extinf in place)
4. Save the Playlist.m3u

I wish this feature would be there in Tag. As Tag can read tags and make playlists, this feature would be great. Given a folder, it does step 1 to 4 (Most importantly step 2)

I hope I'm clear. We'll this might already be there, just that I've not seen enough ?

Regards,
experttech.

Yep, this is already there. Go to root and type:

Tag --recursive --oneplaylist --plname Playlist.m3u --sort path --sort+ track *.mp3 *.mpc *.ogg

This should do the trick.

Hmm, looks good, but doesn't work with folder names that start with a number

eg: 1998 Sash! - Life Goes On

did not get included in the playlist

It's not caused by the name of the directory, there is nothing that prevents numbers to be included. But what can cause this is if the files didn't have correct extension. If you want all files to be included use command

Tag --recursive --oneplaylist --plname Playlist.m3u --sort path --sort+ track --nocheck *.*

Oh my God, how could I miss that ? Those files had an extension of mp+ and hence didn't get added

Thanks Case

Regards,
experttech.