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Author Topic: Is it possible for YADB (or something else) to only look up Genre tags?  (Read 2990 times)

doubrown

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I have a very large (30,000+) FLAC library that I have meticulously tagged over the past 12 years. Despite the attention put into curating the library, I am unhappy with the Genre tag values. Is is possible to over-ride only the Genre tags with values looked up from YADB or some third party source?
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blgentry

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Re: Is it possible for YADB (or something else) to only look up Genre tags?
« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2016, 09:57:50 am »

I *think* MCUtils can do this by looking up against AMG.  I haven't tried it though, so you'll want to ask around, or do some experiments.

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

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flac.rules

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Re: Is it possible for YADB (or something else) to only look up Genre tags?
« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2016, 10:10:03 am »

I have a very large (30,000+) FLAC library that I have meticulously tagged over the past 12 years. Despite the attention put into curating the library, I am unhappy with the Genre tag values. Is is possible to over-ride only the Genre tags with values looked up from YADB or some third party source?

You mean from within MC?
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doubrown

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Re: Is it possible for YADB (or something else) to only look up Genre tags?
« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2016, 10:18:24 am »

Doesn't matter is the solution is within MC or requires a Third Party app.
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mattkhan

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Doesn't matter is the solution is within MC or requires a Third Party app.
http://www.blisshq.com/tour/genre-consolidation.html is one third party solution
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flac.rules

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Re: Is it possible for YADB (or something else) to only look up Genre tags?
« Reply #5 on: January 02, 2016, 11:31:58 am »

Doesn't matter is the solution is within MC or requires a Third Party app.

I really like the musicbrainz setup (with the picard tagger), but it is somewhat involved

https://musicbrainz.org/
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theoctavist

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Re: Is it possible for YADB (or something else) to only look up Genre tags?
« Reply #6 on: January 03, 2016, 04:46:33 am »

the perl script is best. it really is amazing.  now fully automated too

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