Friday, February 1st, 2008
iTunes Tagger (now with Last.FM tags!)
Turns out that the fingerprinting software from Musicip.com was a bit more restricted than I thought. So I completely redesigned my tagging program to work with a more recent player in the market, a last.fm fingerprinting client. This client was released by a guy named Norman (to whom I have no affiliation). To learn more about the last.fm fingerprinting program, visit here.
Anyways, the important part is this: The new program automatically searches the top 5 last.fm tags for each selected track, then saves the top tag as the song genre and saves all 5 tags in the comments. I actually have genres now for my top 300 tracks in itunes, from a mere 10 minutes of tagging. Give it a try and see how it works. The biggest problem? People who use ridiculous tags on Last.fm
Oh, and the program will also automatically find any missing metadata for your track using the last.fm fingerprinting stuff as well as some musicbrainz data. Pretty nifty.
February 5th, 2008 at 6:13 am
JohnPaulVaughan said:
This is almost my dream application… please please please create an automatic mode… I have a billion songs and it will take me weeks to click through adding tags to comments.
February 5th, 2008 at 8:42 am
admin said:
Hi, John.
An automatic mode is what I’m aiming for. Hopefully I’ll get some free time this week, and I’ll add it in.
The tough part is that I’ll need to validate some of the data still, so it doesn’t over-write good information with false information.
Thanks for your interest, and stay tuned…