[mdlug] Magic Linux Metadata normalizer

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 12:57 -0400, Robert Jim Fulner wrote:
> So for years I've had a strange hodge podge of a music library. I have
> no consistency at all in the way stuff is marked. I have several
> directors, labeled MP3 and Music that have a bunch of random files in
> them. Some of these files have the correct meta data, most have, some
> sort of meta data (I remember for a while when most every I had was
> marked as "Blues" for genre simply becuase it was first
> alphabetically).
> I'm wondering if there is any magic GNU/Linux music normalizer. And by
> that I mean some sort of application or trick that will force my
> machine to go in and reorder everything the way its "suposed to"
> Something like /full-path-to-music-library/Artist/Album/Track#_TrackTitle.ogg
> and/or take some of that information that is include in some of the
> file names (or whatever) and rewrite the metadata "correctly". No, I
> have no idea how something like that would even work in theory, guess
> I'll but my money on Penguin Voodoo.

Just import your music into Banshee and it will organize it for you.  It
also includes a meta-data editor for fixing tracks with missing or
munged meta-data.
<http://banshee.fm/>