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[MWGilbert]

Hello, All.

I have about 11,000 mp3 files organized as - - - . They are very easy to access and manipulate within MJ.

What I would like, however, is a method to correctly update tags & or filenames to be able to have the correct YEAR of the album, i.e. - - - - .

This would enable the sorting of albums within an artist chronologically. Now, I could go in and manually retag each album's tracks with the correct year. Or, I would love a way to automate the process, perhaps with some kind of "get the year from cddb using artist & album, auto update tag, and rename file from tag" method.

Since I consider this forum to be populated by the most knowledgable mp3'ers on Earth, I though I would see if anyone here had any ideas. Thanks!

[Claudio]

Hi Gilbert,

renaming the files after you have the year in the tags it's a breeze (see Proprieties,  Tools->rename file from proprieties )

But I think the problem is getting the album year. I don't know if it is just me, but when I query CDDB from the proprieties Tool->"Get Information from CDDB" I normally do not get the year of the album back.

Claudio

[MWGilbert]

Indeed. I would like to avoid the 'research' and 'manual' part of the job

[PadawanX]

CDDB constantly fails to give accurate album release date information.  I would love to know of a reliable way to get this data.  I'd be willing to right a small utility to fill in the id3 tag if there was a source I could trust.  Any suggestions?