This tool attempts to magically retag your FLAC files. Sometimes the magic is good. Sometimes it isn't. YMMV.
Among other things, it:
- Fixes tag capitalization
(with the
--fix-title-caseflag). - Moves featured artists from the title tag to the artist tag.
(Looks for “feat.”/“ft.” by default,
but also handles “with” with the
--with-as-feature-termflag.) - Adds artist and album sort tags (e.g., strips “The” prefixes, replaces “style characters” like “$” with their sortable equivalents).
- Adds total track/disc number/total disc tags.
- Adds ReplayGain
(with the
--add-replay-gainflag; shells out tometaflac, so make sure that's installed.) - Reorders tags and adds a fixed 8K metadata padding (to make the output deterministic).
- Renames files to be consistent with their tags.
- Renames the directory to be consistent with the tags of the contained files.
- Sets the
mtimeof files and the directory to the rip timestamp found in a EAC/XLD/info.txt log file, if present. - Fetches high-resolution album artwork from iTunes
(if python-itunes is installed –
it isn't installed by
./setup.py install, because the version on PyPI does not support Python 3). - Renames album artwork to
folder.jpg.
All of these things happen on every invocation. Due to the lack of customizability, this isn't a general-purpose tagging tool. Think of it like a formatting tool you can run on newly-acquired files to ensure a consistent baseline before doing manual tagging, and then again afterwards to ensure consistent tag layout.
Commit history has been slow for the last few years not because I've lost interest in the project but because it does basically everything I need it to. I do use this tool regularly, typically multiple times a week (every time I add a new album to my library). There are a few things I wish it did or did differently. Most significantly, I wish it built a work queue of proposed mutations so the user could preview and atomically approve/reject them rather than just blazing ahead and always doing everything.