Hi,
You have to run that command while you are in the files folder. So
if
you have that artist slash album slash files structure, you
should be in the files
directory to run that command.
Ishe
On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 06:26 Linux for blind general discussion
<blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
I am a little confused,
Do I need to be in the Artist folder?
The structure is artist folder slash album folder slash files.
kid3-cli> totag "{artist}/{album}/{title}"
gives me error,
artist album title does not exist.
thanks for your help.
Rob
On 3/17/22 22:42, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
Hi,
In addition to what others have suggested, you can try kid3.
While I do
not like its graphical interface, its command line version
invoked via
the kid3-cli is what I normally use to tag my sound files, be
they mp3,
m4a, ogg or even wma formats.
For instance, in a directory with paths like
~/music/artist/album,
you can tag your files
like this:
$ kid3-cli
to invoke it in interactive mode. When it comes up, the prompt
will be
something like
kid3>
The application has got few commands you can
run in this interactive mode such as fromtag to rename files
using their
tags, totag to save files using string format based on path and
file
names. tag 1 to change tags to the tag one format; tag 2 to
switch to
v2.3 tags; save to save your tagged files; select all to select
files,
etc.
So you can format a string which tells it the
structure of your files.
You separate files, directories and
subdirectories using a slash. You use its builtin tag
references like
"year", "albumartist", "artist", "genre", "track" "title".
Title is
simply the title for a file, track is the track number, and the
rest are
self explanatory. Thus, a folder with these files:
1 Country Boy.mp3
2 Make me believe.mp3
etc.
By an artist called Roy Fitz, in a directory structure such as
"~/Music/Roy Fitz/", you would do something like this:
$ kid3-cli
kid3-cli> totag "{artist}/{track} {title}"
And all your mp3 files will be tagged. After tagging, before
quitting,
you have to save with the "save" command.
You can check to see which files changed by simply issuing a
"ls"
command. Any modified files will have a Star before it.
HTH,
Ishe
On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 09:55 Linux for blind general
discussion
<blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You can try something like discogs.com to find track
information for
disks that you couldn't find in cddb, although you will need a
starting place, like the CD title, the artist, or maybe a song
title
you know that you can pop into the search box. You can then
fill in
the information and submit it to cddb, I think freedb
actually,
assuming you still have the CD. I'm not sure though what will
submit
to freedb, and getting this information may or may not be
useful for
automatic tagging, meaning that you may need to fill in your
tags
manually as well. Keep in mind also that discogs has lots of
disks you
cannot find in freedb, but I have found at least one CD on
freedb that
discogs knows nothing about, so depending on what you have,
your
mileage can certainly vary.
~Kyle
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