So I have a bunch of FLAC files, and I have an Excel spreadsheet with all the tags listed in it, like so:



I want to automatically tag the flac files based on the information in the above Excel spreadsheet (which I would convert to a text file). What would be the best approach to this?

Thanks.

Export the excel file in a tab delimited format. Learn some shell programming and write a script. I guess that's the only way. I guess it should be easy to do this in Python.

That was the first thought that crossed my mind. I was just hoping that there would be some tagging app that would allow me to do this easily.

I'll look into it.

Try mp3tag, TagScanner or The Godfather . It could be that one of them contains that feature.
Another option could be to edit your file to a batch file containing one TAG command for each line. Example:

Wow, that's a great idea. It would be easy enough to add columns in Excel, export the file to text, and then convert it to batch.

Going to give it a try; thanks for the idea.

It's even easier with MP3Tag by using the Taglist File - Tag wizard. If you have problems, you can always ask for support on the forums.

also possibly of use:

metaflac --import-tags-from=FILE

Josh

Thanks, all. I ended up doing it the way Hanky suggested; I inserted columns into my Excel file for all the command-line options, like so:



...then exported the Excel file to a tab-delimited text file. I tried making it a batch file, but because some of my tags/filenames had special characters (ö, é, etc.), batch choked on the script. To get around this, I made it a bash script instead and ran it with cygwin, which worked.