With Foobar2000 you can do this automatically, as described below, and since the LABEL is retrieved from, the whole process does not take so much time as you may guess. In order to do this, you have obviously to fill the COMMENT field for any track with the right values. Since iTunes does not support multiple valued genres, nor can search or browse fields other than GENRE, ARTIST or ALBUM, the only way to find music with customized values (as STYLE, LABEL or SUBGENRE.), is to create smart playlist reading those data from the COMMENT tag.įor example, if you want to find MP3s released from the german Kompakt label, you will create a Smart Playlist looking for tracks containing "LABEL: Kompakt" into the COMMENT field. *Customized tags and subgenre workaround* While I don't like this solution at all, I have to admit that embedding artworks has some advantages, as showing covers on an iPod or a deeper portability of the MP3s. Use the iTunes tagger ONLY selecting multiple tracks and only if you know what are you doing!įor displaying the artwork on iTunes, you need to embed it directly into the MP3s.
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The pro of the solution I found is that I can maintain my MP3s well tagged, hoping that some good developer will release in the future a better MP3 player for Mac.ĭO NOT USE iTunes to tag your MP3s! iTunes may delete and replace tags without warning. I have read forums, tried scripts, studied solutions and finally I have found a compromise to gain at least two of the most important goals of my Windows/Foobar2000 setup:ġ) display artwork downloaded from Ģ) search music using other information as country release, label, style or other genres I wasted a lot of time making my library well tagged and organized: switching to Apple I have lost this paradise and I am really disappointed seeing how poorly users can organize the music on iTunes. With foo_discogs I can tag easily my MP3s with a multi valued GENRE and STYLE field, and I also tagged my MP3s with country, label, catalog id, etc. I'm an electronic music fan: electronica has a lot of subgenres really useful to find the right music. Foo_discogs can also retrieve multiple high-quality artworks from : the plugin downloads the artwork as a jpg file, with a progressive number at the and of its name, so I set Foobar to display those files, normally placed in the album directory. has a lot of high-quality data about artists, releases, labels and albums. Recently I found foo_discogs, a Foobar2000 plugin for tagging MP3s retrieving data from.
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Perhaps you may have some suggestion for me, or you could find useful the way I found! 🙂ĭuring the years I ripped a lot of albums and I used Foobar2000 on Windows to organize my music library.
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Hi, I would like to share my experience with iTunes, and how I have solved some annoying issues I got switching from Windows+Foobar2000 too Mac OS+iTunes.
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