global change of mp3-tags imported from CDDB

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[Originally posted by linuxuser on 2007-02-08 16:00:34-08]

If you use the mp3-tags from CDDB, they are often wrong, especially with "various". Most times 0x0003 Title contains the artist + the title, delimited with / or -, while 0x0021 Artist contains Various, Compilation, a.s.o. How can I change it, to get the title only and replace the artist field with the artist from the title field. Leading and trailing spaces should also be removed. I have an idea how to do this with a bash-script, but it can be done with exiftool directly.

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[Originally posted by exiftool on 2007-02-08 17:10:33-08]

Sorry, but ExifTool doesn't yet have the ability to write MP3 information.

- Phil

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[Originally posted by linuxuser on 2007-02-08 17:18:37-08]

Do you plan it to make mp3-tags writeable?

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[Originally posted by exiftool on 2007-02-08 19:07:08-08]

Adding the ability to write ID3 information has been on my to-do
list for quite a while now.  It is slow in getting implemented because
of the complexity of the specification -- there are three distinct
types of ID3 information that would have to be supported, and ID3
information is found in many different types of files.

I will implement writing of ID3 information before any other type of
audio information, but I can't say how long it will be before I add this
feature.  Likely many months at least.

For now, your best bet is to find some other application to write
your audio file meta information.

Sorry.

- Phil

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[Originally posted by linuxuser on 2007-02-08 20:16:23-08]

That's good news, although I have to wait months. Exiftool is a very reliable tool, even the beta-versions and I prefer to use it compared to other tools. Could you recommend a linux-commandline-tool to write mp3-tags in the meantime? Although I ask you to set the "various-artist-problem" on your to-do-list.

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[Originally posted by exiftool on 2007-02-08 20:32:26-08]

Offhand I'm not familiar with an command-line ID3 editors.
A google search should turn up something though.

- Phil