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Title: MusicBrainz Picard with LastFM Plus Plugin for Genre Tagging - alternative?
Post by: Al ex on November 05, 2015, 11:08:04 am
I have been using MusicBrainz Picard together with the LastFM Plugin for several years now for tagging of my music files - in particular GENRE. Picard in combination with LastFM worked very well, usually I got a set of genres back for all my requests.

For the last weeks I am observing that only one Genre tag is thrown back, often even no Genre at all.

Does have someone a good alternative for Picard to get LastFM genres for the own music collection? Or maybe another eqal alternative?
Title: Re: MusicBrainz Picard with LastFM Plus Plugin for Genre Tagging - alternative?
Post by: Al ex on November 21, 2015, 06:55:08 am
Anyone?
Title: Re: MusicBrainz Picard with LastFM Plus Plugin for Genre Tagging - alternative?
Post by: blgentry on November 21, 2015, 07:20:30 am
I played with the lastFM plugin for Picard a couple of months ago and couldn't get it to do anything useful.  I thought it was broken at the time.

Anyway, you might want to check out MCUtils.  I'm fairly certain it includes a mode to do a discogs lookup, including Genre:

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=100449.0

Brian.
Title: Re: MusicBrainz Picard with LastFM Plus Plugin for Genre Tagging - alternative?
Post by: Al ex on November 23, 2015, 02:01:50 pm
Quote from: blgentry on November 21, 2015, 07:20:30 am
I played with the lastFM plugin for Picard a couple of months ago and couldn't get it to do anything useful.  I thought it was broken at the time.

Anyway, you might want to check out MCUtils.  I'm fairly certain it includes a mode to do a discogs lookup, including Genre:

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=100449.0

Brian.

Probably you were installing Last.Fm, and not Last.Fm Plus, which was super as it populated multiple genres and there was much more to configure.

Regarding MCUtil - thanks for the tip Brian, I might try it out, although my ambitions to play around with PERL & Command Shell Window and similar is quite low at he moment due to my main job workload at the moment (which is not coding as you can see obviously :)
Title: Re: MusicBrainz Picard with LastFM Plus Plugin for Genre Tagging - alternative?
Post by: theoctavist on December 24, 2015, 07:10:27 pm
theres nothing to play around with perl wise. it is automated now.

i use MCUtils. it is amazing
Title: Re: MusicBrainz Picard with LastFM Plus Plugin for Genre Tagging - alternative?
Post by: Al ex on January 02, 2016, 04:08:01 pm
Quote from: theoctavist on December 24, 2015, 07:10:27 pm
theres nothing to play around with perl wise. it is automated now.

i use MCUtils. it is amazing

Still difficult to install.
But letīs see - if not today, maybe tomorrow... :)