Tagger

[Joonas]

Okay, this morning went to tweaking Tagger instead of drag n' drop...

Download Tagger here. It works pretty good if all the files you are trying to set tags for are present in ML already...OR if you have read the file lengths of all files in the playlist already...

This is due to Winamp trying to get the length of the file...either from the EXTM3U or from the cached ML. I guess I should try to grab the info from DL too...for people using DL that would be sweet.

does anyone know of a way to just tell Winamp to ignore the file length for now? until the person scrolls the files into view in the Playlist Editor that is.
I am myself not sure this is possible...but all this is a bunch of hacks anyway so...

Latest version:

http://nunzioweb.com/joonas/tagger/

To use: Playlist Editor > right click entry/entries > Edit Selected Item(s)

[Joonas]

Re: Tagger

Anyone tried this plugin yet? Any suggestions? Bug reports?

[Dick65]

Tagger

I won't use it: It writes ID3v.2 tags (which I dislike) and it will not write Ape-tags (which I use).

But for most people it may be a great help.

If only ID3v1 tags have been present before, it will write v1 tags. If also v2 tags or no tags at all were there, it will write v1 and v2.

Smooth handling - no bugs so far.

[Joonas]

Re: Tagger

Originally posted by Dick65
I won't use it: It writes ID3v.2 tags (which I dislike) and it will not write Ape-tags (which I use).

But for most people it may be a great help.

If only ID3v1 tags have been present before, it will write v1 tags. If also v2 tags or no tags at all were there, it will write v1 and v2.

Smooth handling - no bugs so far.

I think it writes the tags which are already in the file...so if you have id3v1 tags it will write id3v1...though maybe it defaults to v2 if no tags are found...it's all the input plugins choice how to write them anyway...

AFAIK Ape isn't fully supported in Winamp which I guess is why ape-tags doesn't work...

Out of curiousity..why use Ape? what's wrong with id3v2?

[Dick65]

Re: Re: Tagger

Joonas
Out of curiousity. Why use Ape? what's wrong with id3v2?

Id3v1 and ape tags are stored at the end of the file. id3v2 tags are put at the beginning. That is the reason why it takes much longer to create / delete a v2 tag: The whole file has to be re-written, whilst for v1 and ape only the end of the file is being touched.
Try and re-write 100 files at a time and you'll see.

id3v1 does not suffice, as the fields are too short. So it's ape tags, which can even be customized (ie create new fields).

My portable mp3 player does (obviously) not support ape tags, so for compatibility I write id3v1 and ape tags.

With the alternative in_mpg123.dll from Shibatch (link) Winamp does read ape tags. This plugin also enables replay gain and gapless output for lame-encoded files.

[Benco]

I find this plugin is a very good idea, I would use every day, if only I could download it !!! as soon as the link is valid, I will become a regular user !

Do you use the same code than ML, or did you reimplement it ?

And about the need for winamp to know the length of the files, cannot you just let winamp read it before changing tags ? like when you select "read extended info"... I personnaly would use this plugin when getting new songs, that are not yet included into the ML, so it would be useful.

anyway, good idea !!

[Joonas]

Originally posted by Benco
I find this plugin is a very good idea, I would use every day, if only I could download it !!! as soon as the link is valid, I will become a regular user !

Do you use the same code than ML, or did you reimplement it ?

And about the need for winamp to know the length of the files, cannot you just let winamp read it before changing tags ? like when you select "read extended info"... I personnaly would use this plugin when getting new songs, that are not yet included into the ML, so it would be useful.

anyway, good idea !!

Grab the plugin from my homepage. The link is old

It is a reimplementation of the ML feature.

[Benco]

this link :

http://nunzioweb.com/joonas/gen_tagger.dll

dosen't work neither (is it "neither" ? english is not my native language...)
anyway, thanks for that fast reply !!

[Joonas]

Originally posted by Benco
this link :

http://nunzioweb.com/joonas/gen_tagger.dll

dosen't work neither (is it "neither" ? english is not my native language...)
anyway, thanks for that fast reply !!

Ouch...so sorry. Have updated the website properly...

[Mr_Sako]

im confused of what it does

it makes id3 tags for you?

[billyvnilly]

Originally, you could only mass edit tags in the media library (media library > Rclick file > edit selected item(s)) Joonas ported this feature to the playlist. No it doesnt do it for you.

[ugoveri]

Masstagging

Well I use EZ-Playlist 1.55 to manage my idtags.

It has a very powerfull engine that allow you rename from file or rename file from idtag, besides mass tagging, and even file arranging, but has the disadvantage of having to open an external aplication.

That's where tagger could make the difference (in my case, maybe just as a complement) because you can edit the tag directly from the playlist.

I just think it had to get better when masstagging, since if you select several files, for example from the same artist and album, you should have the chance to jump to the next file in what concerns to the song title for example when pressing enter. That way tagging the whole songs of an album would be very easier within the winamps playlist.

[interstellar]

Any chance of seeing tagger set up to work with Dynamic Library in the future?

[Joonas]

Originally posted by interstellar
Any chance of seeing tagger set up to work with Dynamic Library in the future?

Considering I am the creator of both I guess it's very likely

[djray]

i love the idea of this plugin... however this plugin doesn't seem to work with winamp v2.9x!

i would really appreciate it if you could enable support for those of old school winamp lovers!