[arch-general] [OT] changing ripped music metadata from freeDB to MusicBrainz

[Magnus Woldrich]

On Sun, Jun 13, 2021, 05:44 Javier via arch-general <
arch-general at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:

> Hi !
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Hey,

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> I have several ripped music CDs, and I just realized part of the metadata
> (I haven't looked at all of it) has the wrong track titles.  I think the
> issue came from using freeDB for getting the metadata information, and I'm
> wondering if there's a way to repopulate all of it (and more, like composer
> information) with MusicBrainz gathered metadata instead.  Is there a tool
> which would allow me to do the conversion?  I ripped the CDs into ogg
> vorbis, in case that helps identify the right tool...  Of course hopefully
> tools found on Arch, and it'd be better if they are command line ones,
> though a GUI one might do it as well if there's no other option...  Of
> course doing things recursively is a must, going ogg by ogg would take like
> forever, :)
>

For all things related to tagging and sorting, you want to use beets. It's
in the repo and it has good documentation on its site. I've used it
recently to tag and sort about 8TB of music and it's just awesome.

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