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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

Musicbrainz Picard if you like graphical interfaces.

Beets if you like the command line.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

https://www.mp3tag.de/en/ could be useful if your files are already uniformly named and if you're on Windows

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Or if you want to edit multiple files in the same way simultaneously (e.g. adjust album or artist name)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Yeah that one is very good.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you just want correct metadata (no own adjustments), then getting it from the MusicBrainz database is probably easiest. You can use MusicBrainz Picard for that: https://picard.musicbrainz.org

It does also seem to have a scripting API. No idea how well that works, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

This looks nice, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Ive used easytag in the past.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's also KID3 and Foobar2000.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

+1 for kid3

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I became obsessive with beets. It uses MusicBrainz IDs to sort all of the files. https://beets.io/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I do it in Winamp, but you probably just want a dedicated software like the other commenters proposed