Browsing reddit last night i stumbled across a DJ Music tagging programme called Onetagger and i thought i would give it a bash this morning to see what all the fuss is about.
The utility supports Windows, Mac and Linux, has a very small footprint and runs very quickly with a plethora of renaming and embedding options for your files.
I have quite a healthy collection stemming back over twenty years and a lot of those files are not named correctly or have even basic album art embedded in the files, so i did a random test with about 70 MP3s with no album art in any of the files, naming was all over the place etc.
I used beatport as one of the renaming sources and of the 70 files all were renamed, album artwork āembeddedā in the files, camelot key notation, year genre etc, only two files failed.
Give it a whirl, it might just be what some of you are looking for, especially considering that āalbum artā is a recurring topic on the forums.
I usually use Mp3Tag but the last versions are a mess, I used to have an older one that was much more user friendly. So I might be tempted to give this a try, thanks
Itās free, which is always a bonus, so nothing ventured.
I have MP3 tag on both my laptops that i use but i would agree that it has not been as accurate as it has been in the past, certainly not as fast as it used to be either.
IOneTagger looks interesting. And Iāll give it a go, especially if it does a fair job of tagging āyearā.
You realise that if this costs anything more than āabsolutely free of chargeā then a percentage of DJs will throw all their toys out of their stroller and claim that every feature offered by Onetagger should have been offered free, inclusive l, from day one, twice as quick, with fifty times more features in the Engine suite etc etc lol
Forgive my ignorance, I use all the fields that Engine DJ allows to use, I have no problems when I use it, I suppose that all this you are talking about is because you need to have the library updated externally to use it with other programsā¦ right? I donāt see the need if only Engine is used, but I repeat that I donāt know why you use external software to manage the library
Iām not using them to help me manage my Engine library per se rather to help me, in this case with āOneTaggerā clean up tags etc and as previously said, embed album art which i have found to be rather monotonous.
I like Engine, i like the simplicity of it. The only issue that i have had from day one is the insane scroll speed when you are navigating tracks in the main window, and to date i have only seen one other person mention it
If you only ever use the Engine ecosystem itās probably not super necessary to use a 3rd party-tagger, unless you want to add artwork to the files.
I really do hope artwork addition/editing and (actual) ID3 editing will be possible within Engine, so that no 3rd party application is needed. I currently use Rekordbox for ID3 tagging - would obviously prefer to just stay within Engine at all times
There is a plethora of options so i would be surprised if there was not an option to ignore/include this field.
Just did a test with 60 files which had comments inserted and after analysis/renaming the comments section remained in tact, so i guess you would be good to go, but if you try it give it a test run first.
after all people are entitled to their opinions.
