Since there seems little sign of rhythmbox's broken handling of "comment" tags being fixed (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2188626)
I am looking round for an alternative solution. EasyTag seems widely recommended, so I downloaded it.
I am struggling to find good documentation, but I am also confused as to the intended "mode of use".
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My rhythmbox working practice was to put "new" mp3 files, with some basic tags assigned using a perl script + eyeD3,
into the root of my Music directory. The mp3 files are mainly capture spoken word comedy, with metadata coming
from the EPG files.
I would then edit the tags in rhythmbox, assigning episodes to "albums" (actually series), setting years and so on.
Finally, I would use fileorganizer plugin to move/make a nice filename.
Sadly, Rhythmbox tends to corrupt comment tags (where I was storing episode synopses) and fileorganizer
needs a different python version, and no long works in 13.10.
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So - I tried opening up easytag at the root of my tree, and it "took a while" to gather the existing tags. Around 20
seconds (and I only have around 1400 files so far).
This is not very nice when I just wish to add-and-tag 4 or 5 new files.
Can anyone recommend a working practise? Should I put new files in a separate sub directory to tag them?
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