Hi all,
what's your recommendation to mass-edit ID3 tags?
My current setup is limited to iriver plus 2 for a U10 2GB (thus UMS). It's almost impossible to edit ID3 info there: It takes just too many clicks and navigation in order to edit a single entry, instead of a full range.
What I want instead, is editing lots of entries at once. This may be done e.g, by
* spreadsheet-like operation: copy/paste of multiple cells at once
* database-like operation: search and replace of entries
* plain text edition: a simple editor with regular expressions (such as vim) in order to adjust entries for my needs
My problem is mainly due to malformatted ID3 tags which do not follow any real standard, but do abuse former limitations for a temporarily best workaround. iriver claims full id3 support up to v2.4 - but I do not see all possible info within iriver plus, nor may I configure the sort lists within the u10 for my needs.
Example: listening to classical music, I want to navigate not only by album and artist, but most of the times by composer. Thus many old ID3 tags name the composer within the artist's file...
How may I mass-edit MP3 info? At the moment I do not see any import function to iriver plus (is there any?). What could I do next? I guess the easiest option is to catch all info from the .mp3/.ogg files directly, edit this wherever possible, rewrite this info to the mp3 files and then use iriver plus in order to build its database from the files on the mp3 player? ... or use
http://pmplib.sourceforge.net/
etc. directly
What's your recommendation? I'd prefer open source software to Win...