Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[c1c9k72]

I'm working on a friend's collection of roughly 2,000 MP3s and the tags have been badly damaged.  Some of them are for wrong songs, some of them are completely empty and some of them are partially empty.  However, all the songs appear to be named properly.

What I'm wondering is if someone knows of a way I can use my library of properly tagged songs to quickly deal with this other set of mp3s?  Is there any software that can use a CSV or XML or other file format that I can generate with MC to impose some sort of order to this chaos ?

Thanks in advance

[Deivit]

Tweener, if the files appear to be named properly... can't you merely use the "fill tags from file name" tool? or perhaps the name of the files does not have all the required info such as Artist, Name, Album and track # ?

[c1c9k72]

The files are properly named, but it is only the artst and the name of the song.

[Deivit]

OK... are your files and your friend's files exactly or almost exactly the same?... and do they have the same filename in your library than in your friend's?

[c1c9k72]

They are almost exactly the same.  We had the same source for most of these files, but his tend to be downsampled to 128k.  The naming conventions are identical, so his files and mine look the same, if you ignore the changes in filesize.

[Deivit]

So... what if you backup your library and restore it at your friend's computer? Assuming that the name convention AND the path (Drive letter) is the same in both computers, I understand that once the library is loaded into your friend's computer, MC will match all the files that are the same and will put a red cross on the files that are different.

You can select all the matching files (the ones without the red cross) and perform an "update tags from library". Those will be just finished. They will be tagged the same that you have in your own library.

Secondly, you can delete the library references of all the files that existed in your library but are not in your friend's computer.

And finally, you have to carefully select the files that ARE in your friend's computer but were not in yours. Those will have to be tagged and renamed manually, I'm affraid.

Be careful, because both groups of files will have the red cross on them.

May I suggest that you wait for a little bit before you perfom this procedure, just in case someone comes up with a better solution... it's what normally happens  

---

Edit: Backup first your friend's library so that if this does not work, at least you can be at the same point again.