Need a MP3 ID3 tagger, and cover fetcher

Question

I need to tag my MP3 library, and have tried kid3 (which was manual tagging), when I used Kubuntu 9.10 (I now use Ubuntu Meerkat) Here are the features I am hoping for:

• A good and clean UI.
• Tagging should be automatic, like Winamp's autotag feature, which rocks, btw!
• It should also embed the cover-art in the mp3, not copy a jpeg file in the folder, because now-a-days all players support displaying cover art. But acceptable if not possible.
• Rename the files as per some regular expression like %TrackNo - %Artist - %Title.
• Should be accurate, and more importantly smart. I want to start tagging at night, and hopefully my collection should be done by the morning, w/o it being stuck at a user prompt at 1%.

If one app cant do all, I am willing to use 3, wouldn't mind exposure to a few more apps ;)

I have used picard or someting, and I didnt like it quite a lot. But wouldn't mind using it, if there is no other alternative.

Thanks for your time!

Solution 1

EasyTAG

You can try EasyTAG, a nice graphical editor for tags in mp3 and aac files.

Solution 2

MusicBrainz Picard

i just went over my entire collection 80gigs+, i did a lot of research and tried easytag, banshee, etc the only that really stands out for me was MusicBrainz Picard.

Its very clever, backed up a by a huge database. The scanning functionality is what really impressed me, it plays the song and then makes an audio fingerprint of it. It then compares it to the database and populates all the metadata. neat

Solution 3

Audio Tag Tool (tagtool)

You can also install tagtool. This will allow you to edit the ID3 tags of OGG and MP3 files using a nice GUI.

Warning: Last update: 2013-04-24

Solution 4

For

• automatic tagging, I recommend Musicbrainz Picard.
• manual tag editing and robust pattern-based file renaming, I recommend Ex Falso.

I can't recommend anything for you for album art, since I use the "picture in the same folder" method.

Solution 5

Puddletag

You might be interested in using Puddletag. It has all the features you mentioned, as well as some more automated %Filename - %Artist - %Title customization.

Included with puddletag are tag sources supporting lookups from Amazon, Discogs, FreeDB and MusicBrainz and AcoustID. There is also quite a number of features this application supports.

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Comments

[Pablo Bianchi]

Command-line only alternatives

[theTuxRacer]

yeah, seems good enough, I dont have enough English songs atm, All I have are hindi, and it couldnt tag them properly, I guess freedb doesnt have that info. Winamp uses gracenote, and it has all the info.

[theTuxRacer]

does it fetch tags from the internet, and maybe covers too?

[karthick87]

@KaustubhP not sure on fetching tags from internet.

[theTuxRacer]

what did u use for the album art?

[boehj]

+1 - Good suggestion. It has a few quirks but is the best I've used in GNU/Linux.

[Esamo]

At the program - can I change / copy metadata to all selected files from the one being edited? Oh, got it! Right-click selected files and scaner option.

[Maduka Jayalath]

This is a great piece of software!

[Dan Dascalescu]

As of 2016, Amarok still doesn't show custom ID3v2 tags.