Genre, Metadata editing, Amarok, Ex Falso

[Jeff Mitchell]

On Tuesday 05 August 2008, Robert Smits wrote:
> Like many of us, I have an extensive audio collection. Most of mine is Old
> Time Radio, but I also rip all my CDs, and even old vinyl will soon all be
> added. So, I've been spending some time figuring out how to edit metadata
> on my files, specifically, genre.
>
> I started by looking for a way to edit the data in Amarok, and it's
> certainly possible to do that, by editing the track information - one at a
> time - which is certainly time consuming.
>
> What I managed to find to do this is Ex Falso, which comes as an audio
> plugin for Quod Libet, another Linux Audio Player. I just downloaded and
> installed, from the openSUSE 11.0 repositories both Quod Libet and Quod
> Libet plugins.
>
> Now, I find Ex Falso in the Audio Media Editors, and I can change any of
> the metadata in all the files in a directory at once - what a time saver!
>
> I'm not planning to change my audio player from Amarok, but thought others
> might like to know about this useful utility.

Just so you know, you can already do this in Amarok.

Try right clicking on an album, or on an artist.  You'll have the option to 
set metadata for all the tracks.  (Or you can select multiple tracks if you 
like).

Of course, this isn't a per-directory setting per se, but as many people have 
their music in an artist/album directory tree, it works quite well.

--Jeff