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This page describes tango.info mass tagging with foobar2000.
Setup
- Install the component "Text tools" (foo_texttools)
- download from http://foobar2000.org/?page=Download
- Configure the "Text tools" to copy TINTs:
- File | Preferences | Tools | Text tools
- Add a new tag called TINT, with the following pattern if you use TINT-based filing
- $num($directory(%path%,2),14)-%_directory%-%_filename%
- Or if you use tags with barcode, you may use
- $num(%barcode%,14)-$num($max(1,%discnumber%),2)-%track%
Mass tagging
- Select the files you want to masstag
- put them in a playlist
- Copy TINTs
- selecting all files, Right-click | Utils | Text tools | Copy: TINT
- Send TINTs and name of fields to tango.info
- http://tools.tango.info/tagger1.3.php
- Paste TINTs into the field "Track references":
- Select fields you want to get data for
- pre-selected is something like %x_count%;%tin%;%album_name%;%album_artist%;%discnumber%;....
- if you only want dates, put only %date%
- press submit
- Put the tag data into foobar2000
- Copy the results and return to foobar2000
- Right click | Properties | Tools | Automatically Fill Valuess
- Clipboard: line per track
- enter the pattern into the foobar2000 field "Pattern"
- if you only want dates, put only %date%
- or you use something like %%;%barcode%;%album%;%album artist%;%discnumber%;%track%;%title%;%track artist%;%genre%;%date%;%%;%totaltracks%;
Note: This scheme should match the output of the tango.info tagger, "%%" discards data.
- You get a preview
- click ok to write the tags