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Hello.
My music database is missing the YEAR tags.
I would like to ask if there any way for mass setting the YEAR Tag. It should grab the 1st matching result based on Artist and Title from discogs or similar?
Can it be done using scripts in Mp3Tag?
Thank you
Br,
KD
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Hi, I've been using mp3tag to manually edit my mp3s with great success. I have a few thousand songs (many actually), with correct artist and title tags only, but no year tag. Now I want to use "tag sources" to get only the year tag (ideally the fist year of release of any particular song), and possibly (but not necessarily) the genre tag. First I tried freedb, but for any given track, the results were always wrong, it never got the song right. So I then tried musicbrainz, which pops up a box "Se…
and see also this discussion:
I just found this thread, as I too am in search of a good online source for the original release year of many tracks I have from the 60s and 70s...
I did try using VLOOKUP in Excel to get years into the list of files from a listing of about 2500 songs, and although it works, it was only 30% or so successful, because of any variation in title names ... I thought I had the solution, but I may be looking at manual entry, or maybe just call the collection "Groovy" and be done with it ..
I have Whi…
And as I understand the mechanism of the web sources you have to do it album by album or title by title if there is no album.