I've read about web sources, actions and various threads on automation - before anyone posts, I've also read in numerous places "This is not possible with Mp3tag. Mp3tag is a GUI tool, not a CLI tool" and I'm fine with that.
I'm still plodding through my lifetime collection of vinyl records, some 8,000 odd records, cassettes, reel to reel tapes and even a limited number of jazz artist laser discs which I rip for stereo sound and digitizing every one.
I use Audacity to capture the sound, also a UI tool. For the most part I have a few standard Audacity macros accessed via the Tools menu.
Once I've exported the files, again I have a pretty standard set of functions that I use in MP3 tools. I always use Discogs Release ID to retrieve the tags - for the infrequent records, tapes of music laserdiscs that are not on Discogs, I add them to discogs.
Once the files are tagged from Discogs, I renumber the tags as A1, A2 etc. don't work for me; once renumbered, I rename the files. I can do this almost entirely from the toolbar.
Audacity Macro Manager allows me to set the defaults for each of the actions and then runs through them with UI changes and only stops when there is a user decision to be made. For example "Export Audio" I prefer to make a UI selection rather than default.
Is there no outlook that MP3TAG could take on a macro like UI automation?
I've tried using Auto hotkey which works to a point but fails more than it succeeds.
Thanks.
++Mark.
