An Accurate ID3 Tag Database?

Posted by Cliff on Monday January 23, 2006 @12:45PM from the battle-of-the-genres dept.

Andy Le Couteur Bisson asks: "Can anyone suggest an ID3 tag database that doesn't label everything from Gabber to Ambient as Electronica & Dance, or worse? I am currently ripping more of my CD collection and it is annoying to have to review and edit almost all of the tags after every session. The odd error or difference of opinion is understandable, but I struggle to comprehend the logic that categorizes The Liberators and Luke Slater as R&B (for the uninitiated they are Techno). I guess I'm looking for a more UK centric database but Googling hasn't helped much, thus far."

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Re:OK... WTF is Gabber? by SleepyHappyDoc · 2006-01-23 22:44 · Score: 3, Funny

A gabber is someone who talks too much, but has nothing important to say. Examples include politicians, salespeople, and myself.

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Re:Shell scripts. by Steve+Cowan · 2006-01-24 05:40 · Score: 2, Funny

This is what I used to do back when I cared about ID3 tags...
Find a command line ID3 tag editor. There are several out there.
Put each album in its own directory.
Name the files appropriately (put track titles, track numbers, etc) so that a shell script can extract the relevant fields and set the appropriate ID3 fields.
for i in /path/to/album/*.mp3; do id3_tag_edtior [args]; done
No wonder you no longer care about ID3 tags.