Topic: A very handy tagging tool: Live Show Tagger (foo_tradersfriend)

[Gordon]

trying it out but the textfile won't load

Could not load info (Unsupported file format) from:
"C:\Documents and Settings\g dawg\My Documents\My Music\flacs n shns\dbt2006-09-15.184's.flac16\dbt2006-09-15.txt"

when I go to live show tagger and hit update files I get the above message.  tried loading the text file again and the same thing happens.

hmm.  now it seems to be working.....

edit again.  all I had to do was remove the text from foobar.  then go to live show tagger and load the text from there.  very nive tool!

[rowjimmy]

I've been loving this foobar2k plugin since its earliest versions. it has come a long way and is now more forgiving of ugly txt files and filesets with ffp files and whatnot taboot...

the "txt file template" Brian posted is key, though. If everyone worked with something like that we'd all be better off.

[aberg]

How do you get this plugin to put information into the album tab in the tag?

[Gordon]

How do you get this plugin to put information into the album tab in the tag?

it gets all the info for the tag from the textfile.

[aberg]

How do you get this plugin to put information into the album tab in the tag?

it gets all the info for the tag from the textfile.

Yes, I know that, but when I run it, it places the Venue and City information into a field in the tag called <VENUE>, but I would rather put it into the 'ALBUM' tag so that iTunes will list them properly when I convert to apple lossless for my ipod...

[Brian Skalinder]

Yes, I know that, but when I run it, it places the Venue and City information into a field in the tag called <VENUE>, but I would rather put it into the 'ALBUM' tag so that iTunes will list them properly when I convert to apple lossless for my ipod...

MassTagger allows you to specify the tag location for the data.  I do what you want to do - dump the city / venue info into the ALBUM tag.

[aberg]

Yes, I know that, but when I run it, it places the Venue and City information into a field in the tag called <VENUE>, but I would rather put it into the 'ALBUM' tag so that iTunes will list them properly when I convert to apple lossless for my ipod...

MassTagger allows you to specify the tag location for the data.  I do what you want to do - dump the city / venue info into the ALBUM tag.

Thanks Brian, I'll try this when I get home.

[aberg]

wow... this works great!

So my process for lossless on the ipod is now as follows:

1. Take my flac fileset (make sure text file is formatted as per etree standards) and load into foobar.
2. Run a script to set Artist and Album fields.
3. Use dBpowerAMP to convert to Apple Lossless, preserving ID Tags (takes about 2-3min per show)
4. Load into iTunes, and it sorts perfectly... no additional tweaking needed.
5. sync to iPod
6. enjoy!

Now to just get one of the new full speed ipod integration alpine head units.... mmmm.

[PH]

not to knock the apple lossless scheme or anything, but check out rockbox. You can load it onto most ipods and it sets up as a dual boot.
It allows you play flac and many other types of files, plus it utilizes a (much more user friendly) file tree system as opposed to itunes.
Kind of complicated to install, but easy and very cool after that.
Check it out  http://www.rockbox.org/    (i'm just a happy user)

I also use foobar2000 with live show tagger now (awesome!!!) and have ditched winamp, which always seemed to buggy for me.
Tag&Rename is another great program for organizing your flac tags, it's especially helpful with commercial cddb stuff and also with renaming filesets automatically.

I personally don't mess with anything but wav and flac. I record to wav. I archive with flac.
This is true for all my masters and subsequent mixdowns, plus all 16/44 stuff such as Cd's, Dats, downloads, etc...
It's all just stored on redundant hard drives. One installed in my home machine and one offsite.
I've converted everything to one format. With rockbox/ipod, foobar2000, and a hard drive.....you are all set. No more conversions.

A lot of work, but it works for me. YMMV......     

Cheers, Phil