After I downloaded an album from Jamendo this morning, I realized that my Awesome-based console system, which also doubles as the music machine for the house, lacks something appropriate for managing id3 tags in ogg files.
Ordinarily I rely on EasyTag, which is a great piece of software for renaming, clearing, arranging and polishing the tags in mp3 and ogg files. Jamendo has a habit of sometimes dumping unrelated strings into certain fields — putting the creative commons license into the “encoded by” field. 😕 I guess it could be the artist that does that though, so maybe Jamendo isn’t to blame.
Regardless, I make a habit of cleaning out the tags and adjusting the filenames when I download them, and realized I had no analogy for EasyTag at the console. I don’t see any kind of editing tools in MOC, but I don’t expect there to be either.
I’ll have to research this more in the future; I found a few options with a quick Scroogle search, but they all looked like backends. I want something … powerful, flexible, terse and efficient. Something … user-friendly. 😈
you could try dagger (http://freewarepoint.de/dagger/) which does a wonderful job! i am using it on arch without any problems….
I browsed through Gentoo’s list of suitable tagging apps. There’s a fair amount of mp3-only tools, but these are some apps that can handle several formats (mp3, ogg, flac, etc.):
lltag
omptagger
audiotag
If you feel like going back to MPD, ncmpcpp has builtin tagging.
Ex Falso is one of the best taggers out there. Unfortunaly it comes bundled with quod-libet.