you pc or mac bro

if your mac this will do exactly what you want:

www.chaoticsoftware.com

Wow thats sweet software. Anyone know of a PC version like it?

I use Atomic Parsley to tag my mp4 automatically with artist and title. My encode script does this automatically.

Mizu, I actually have both, but have just recently started using only the MacBook Pro.

I'll definitely check out the provided link. ;-)

Thanks brother.

A-Swift, thanks brother...I'll do a search for it Atomic Parsley as well.

Here he come with his fancy scripting!!! LOL <------JEALOUS

maybe he should be a-script

that's about an 8 on the clever scale. well done sir.

lol.

Winamp actually does a nice job of tagging.

I use MP3tag (www.mp3tag.de) on my MacBook in VMWare. I didn't find a good alternativ on Mac OS.

I'll look into the program for the Mac.

A-Swift, Atomic Parsley seems too complicated for a knuckle-dragger like me.

DJ Lad, I'm sorry brother, but for me, I'd rather not install WinAmp.

I would rather do my editing of .mp4 tags however with my PC and it's my fault for not pointing that out in my initial post.

I'm trying to limit the use of my MBP for running SSL/VSL/57SL and not install any programs more than need to run my DJing at gigs.

Anyone know of a good .mp4 tag editor for a PC?

Thanks

You really won't run into any issues installing other programs and using Serato...it's not a PC.

I hear you Rebel....but the other part of my not wanting to do it....is because I've only operated a Mac for the past 3 weeks. Prior to that time, I had operated PCs since my introduction to the 8088.

Navigating around with the Mac is still kicking me in the nutts. I also have 3 other PC Notebooks and a PC Desktop and would rather use any of them as my workhorses to tag .mp3s, .mp4s, and do my video editing and just keep the MBP for using Serato with.

i'm gonna write a perl script for you right here in this post:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
while (<*.mp4>) {
my $file = $_;
my ($artist, $title) = split(/ - /, $file, 2);
$title =~ s/.mp4//;
my $cmd = qq~AtomicParsely -inplace -artist "$artist" -title "$title" "$file"~;
print "Working on $file\n";
system ($cmd);
print "Done with $file\n";
}

There you go. I timed myself, that took about 40 seconds to write. I can use that to tag 15,000 files in no time flat. Just make sure they are named "Artist - Title.mp4"

A-Swift, thank you for taking time out to do this for me. Well hell, seeing how you took the time out to do this...I should at least put it to the test.

I'll look back into Atomic Parsley and see if I can figure out how to do this....remember, I've only been on a Mac for 3 weeks with about 12 hours total time playing with it.

i guess i should actually check the atomic parsely syntax then.

Yea, cause I have no idea what it is I'm suppose to do with the script you just wrote....at this point....doh!

MP3Tag - Only because it has "mp3" in the title, it does not mean it can't handle mp4s!

Actually, Tag & Rename does a great job of tagging - it's just that WinAmp can autotag the file for you and does the job well about half the time.

DJ Lad, do you know if WinAmp can take a file in, which is named the following, and correct input the file name information into the tags for Artist and Track Title?

Artist - Title.mp4

Again, if I have my files formatted in the above, can WinAmp take that file name's Artist and Title and input the data into the correct Artist and Title fields of the tags?

I hope I made sense....

Okay....got it.

I downloaded and installed Tag&Rename and it's working like a champ on my PC. Saving me quite a bit of work and looks like just what I was in search for.

Thanks everyone.

Given the choice of a script or a nice gui,.. they always go gui. *sigh*

Do you have a script for the PC?

I actually go through steps to get mine tagged correctly. Of course I am anal like that.

I use Tag&Rename to basically write a basic tag to the video file. I do more in depth tag editing in Heluim Music Manager(PC only). Been using that for about 10 years now. It is a very powerful tagging editor. The ONLY reason I use Tag&Rename is because helium doesn't officially support H.264 video tagging (acc files). But for whatever reason after I do a basic write of tags on Tag&Rename it works flawless in Helium after that.

I write everyone of my videos with this file name structure:

artist - title (version) (source) (BPM) (year).mp4/mpg

Helium has scripts you can run that places the tags from the file name in batches.

I meant (aac files)

yeah AL, that same script i posted above will work on Windows too but it's a perl script so you would have to install perl first. perl is already installed on linux and mac though. of course AtomicParsely (which is actually doing the work, not the script) works on all platforms.

hmm.. I will have to contact via phone, IM, PM or smoke signals to give a try at that. I would love to automate the whole process.

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