Sheila's xB has a direct connection for an iPod. It allows you to directly control an iPod from the head unit. So yesterday we went to Best Buy and picked up a new 60GB iPod. I had some old MP3s, but the tags were a total mess. I didn't feel like manually editing everything, so I started searching around for a good automatic tag editor.
A while back I fooled with a program called Replay Music, which allows you to record music played on the sound card. The best feature is that it has the ability to try to figure out what a song is by actually analyzing the audio and looking up information in Gracenote's CDDB. I tried it out and it worked rather well. Very cool technology.
I figured if the technology was available to acoustically fingerprint streaming music, certainly there had to be programs out there to do it with existing MP3s. After a lot of searching I finally found the answer: Musicbrainz. Musicbrainz uses TRM to create the acoustic fingerprint that their tagger program uses to help correctly identify the tags for an MP3. I downloaded it, tried it out, and it works like a charm! I highly recommend it to anyone who has a lot of MP3s and needs to do a lot of retagging.
11/21/2005
New iPod and Musicbrainz
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I don't have a lot of mp3's but it's an interesting tech. Audio tends to turn into lists of poorly documented files in stead of a doorway to the information highway. It's a bit like tagging photos by colors and face shapes only much more advanced.
Been a while, lets have some new content! :x
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