

would exist, causing the album to play out of sequence. Combining the three folders, each containing 17, 16 and 13 tracks, would results in 46 tracks but according to the tag data that determines the folder’s playback order, three track “1”, three track “2” and three track “3” etc. There is need to burn each ‘disc’ to a separate CD-R but I prefer to store the entire release in ONE folder. This is especially useful when faced with multi-disc sets whose tracks are subdivided into separate folders but whose ‘album’ tag info remains the same throughout.Ĭonsider the recent (2014) 3CD reissue of The Wedding Present’s Bizarro stored across three separate folders, one for each disc: Mp3tag’s second strongest suit is its ability to sort by file/folder name inside the app so that ‘track number’ re-sequencing can be properly applied. The standout is mp3tag’s spreadsheet layout where each entry is its own clickable/editable cell. To this day, no OS X substitute comes close to feature set comprehensiveness and ease of use. Mp3tag supports online database lookups from, e.g., Amazon, discogs, or freedb, allowing you to automatically gather proper tags and cover art for your music library.” It can rename files based on the tag information, replace characters or words in tags and filenames, import/export tag information, create playlists and more. (From the website) “Mp3tag is a powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of common audio formats where it supports ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, iTunes MP4, WMA, Vorbis Comments and APE Tags. Despite its name, mp3tag handles a good deal more than MP3s:
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However, one piece of software from those Windows years for which I’ve yet to find a proper substitute is mp3tag – a God amongst men of tag editors. The Macbook Air on which I type these words occasionally sees Audirvana+ 2.0 fired up for when needs must. On the audio playback side, iTunes fronted by Audirvana+ or Amarra or PureMusic would ultimately be DAR HQ’s software of choice before switching up and out to an Antipodes server and AURALiC Aries streamer. Just as Windows users began wincing their way through Vista, I jumped from XP to OS X Tiger, foraging Finder for files, surfing Safari across the web (which would quickly be replaced by Mozilla Firefox and, later, Google Chrome) and ingesting images with iPhoto.

That was the year I switched from a Windows laptop to a Macbook.
