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Asked: 2019-02-11 00:48:50 +0800 CST

Mass tag fixing (large ogg audio collection)

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I have a lot of ogg files of pop music.

Unfortunately the tags are not normalized.

Example: One album has "Tina Turner" as interpreter and the next album has "Turner Tina".

It would be nice to normalize the tags.

I looked ad Picard, but the quick start guide tells me:

You should note - Picard is not built to be a mass single-track tag fixer.

How to mass tag fix on Ubuntu?

I don't want a GUI. I am hoping that this process is automated. There are just too many files. I can't fix tags by hand and per single file.

This should be automated:

  1. tool looks at the current tags of one audio file.
  2. tool tries to guess the album and title with the help of some internet database
  3. tool should normalize the tags if a valid album+title was found in the DB
  4. the tool should skip the file if no valid album+title was found and print a warning.

With other words: I don't want to set "Tina Tuner" by script or GUI myself.

I have Ubuntu 18.04

sound music ogg-vorbis mp3-tag

2 Answers

  1. Check lltag

    From the man page: lltag is a command-line tool to automatically set tags of MP3, OGG or FLAC files.

    https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/lltag.1.html

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  2. Check exiftool from the package 

    sudo apt install libimage-exiftool-perl

    A command line tool to set and read meta information in multimedia files. There's an extensive man page with nice examples of how to make it run well.

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