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minimiggs

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Jul 27, 2016
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I am currently in the middle of ripping all of my 2000 cds to hard drive. I am ripping the cds to Apple Lossless ALAC. I am using dBpoweramp for macOS. Once the music is ripped, I have been using iTunes and Plex mainly.

Along with the standard id3 fields (Track Name, Artist, Album name), I am also adding Track ISRC, Album UPC, Album Catalog# & Musicbrainz ID.

I have realised that media players and cataloging software can't display these extra tags. If it isn't in the list of standard iTunes tags, them it can't be displayed. Even right clicking on the file in finder and clicking get info doesn't display the extra info.

It seams I have wasted my effort in adding all of the extra info to the music files.

I would love to find a cataloging/media player that can display the extra tags.
 

arw

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Aug 31, 2010
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Metadatics can edit everything.
It's the best I have found: Batch renaming, tagging from filename and vice versa, tag manipulation... etc.
I use iTunes for Playback (Retroactive). Although it can't display all infos, I like to have/keep as many tags as possible when buying/converting music.
 

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arw

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FYI iTunes is able to read/manipulate quite a lot of tags, not obviously accessible. I use many for smart playlists or for scripts in iTunes.
Here is a list of all tags iTunes can handle.
I misuse some of these tags for my own purposes like adding the Publisher/Label to have access in iTunes to it.
 

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