Real alternative to Tag&Rename
Solution 1:
Jaikoz and Music Man can do it for you.
you can also use some free apps too:
- MusicBrainz
- ID3 Editor
Solution 2:
The tagger
Solution 3:
I mostly use mid3v2
. Some examples:
mid3v2 --artist Artist --title Title --album Album --track 1 file.mp3
for f in *.mp3;do a=${f%% - *};t=${f#* - };t=${t%.mp3};mid3v2 --artist "$a" --title "$t" "$f";done
mid3v2 -l file.mp3 # list tags
mid3v2 -l file.mp3|sed -n s/^TPE1=//p # artist
mid3v2 -D file.mp3 # delete all tags
for f in *.mp3;do l=$(mid3v2 -l "$f");mv "$f" "$(printf %02d $(sed -n 's,^TRCK=0*\([^/]*\).*,\1,p'<<<"$l")) $(sed -n 's,^TIT2=,,p'<<<"$l"|tr '/:?<>\\*|"^' _).mp3";done
mid3v2 --delete-frames $(mid3v2 -l *|LC_ALL=C sed -n 's,^\([^=]*\)=.*,\1,p'|sort -u|grep -Exv 'TPE1|TIT|TALB|TRCK|TYER|TDRC'|tr \\n ,) * # keep only specified tags
You can install mid3v2
by running sudo easy_install pip;sudo pip install mutagen
. id3v2
and id3tag
don't support Unicode and id3tool
doesn't support ID3v2.
Solution 4:
To my knowledge there is no tagging software on OS X as polished and features complete as Tag&Rename.
Beside the ones aforementioned, I use SimpleTagger which enables you to tag from Amazon (including cover) and rename your files from tags.