How can I edit genre in 1.4?

[Jonas Norlander]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Robert Smits<bob at rsmits.ca> wrote:
> On August 21, 2009 08:41:28 pm Jeff Mitchell wrote:
>
>>
>> Is there a reason you don't want to do this via e.g. eyeD3? It's much
>> more straightforward.
>>
>> --Jeff
>
> After your comment, I installed eyeD3 and had a look. First, it appears to be
> only a command line tool and only lets me alter one kind of tag at a time. In
> amarok, I can alter as many tags as I like and then change all the files in
> that directory. Second, the actual tags in list-genre, which I looked at,
> don't meet my needs at all - they're all music tags, and most of my  audio
> files aren't covered at all.  The documentation seems to suggest I can only
> use the tags in the list - which won't do at all.
>
> Thanks for the thought, though, Jeff.

For editing music metadata/tags I suggest Easytag or Kid3. The Kid3
package in Jaunty is an older version for KDE3 but on
http://kid3.sourceforge.net/ you can download a i386 version for KDE4.

/ Jonas