Web Services

pegisys · 2008-01-02, 02:18

Happy New Year everyone.

I don't know where to put this but I was writing a program that hopefully, if it ever gets to a usable state, will be made into a plugin for MP.

What the program does is traverse directories and tag mp3s from the directory structure.

I made this program because I have a lot of mp3 that are not tagged but they are all organized by directory
e.g. F:\Music\Artist Name\Album Title\

so it is pretty easy to get the artist and album info, and that was all I set out to do. That worked pretty well, and I could now sort my music by artist or album, but I decided to take it a step further and that is why I'm here.

I wanted to know is there any web service out there that offers music info only. I have been looking into using the amazon web service because it will give me enough info to do what I need but it's pretty heavy

any suggestions are welcome

in advance

Maschine · 2008-01-02, 10:48

Hmm, I think I didn't get your aim yet...

If you just want to have the artist and album information from your folder structure to use it in MP I think it would be easier to use an MP3 tagger. Most of those can create ID3-Tags from the directory structure. MP can then read the tags and import the data to the DB.

Because you were asking for webservices: I think last.fm also offers some services, but didn't look at those yet...

Maschine

pegisys · 2008-01-02, 15:59

I had gotten the album and artist info from the folders, I already did that much and it works great, basically what I want now is track name, track number, year, song length.

My ideal service would let you search by artist and album and it would return the track info. I figured I could compare the song length between what is returned and what I have and get decent results.

I have tried some mp3 tagger programs that do something similar but they all seem to need more user interaction then I want to give it.

My program is fully automatic, but I have not used all tagger programs so it may be on that does exactly what I want and I don't know about it.

thanks I will see what last.fm has to offer

uggabugga · 2008-01-02, 16:40

You could try www.magic-tagger.com.
It's 19 EUR but I think It's worth it!

2008-01-02, 02:18	#1 (permalink)
pegisys Portal Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 26 Thanks: 6 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Country:	Web Services Happy New Year everyone. I don't know where to put this but I was writing a program that hopefully, if it ever gets to a usable state, will be made into a plugin for MP. What the program does is traverse directories and tag mp3s from the directory structure. I made this program because I have a lot of mp3 that are not tagged but they are all organized by directory e.g. F:\Music\Artist Name\Album Title\ so it is pretty easy to get the artist and album info, and that was all I set out to do. That worked pretty well, and I could now sort my music by artist or album, but I decided to take it a step further and that is why I'm here. I wanted to know is there any web service out there that offers music info only. I have been looking into using the amazon web service because it will give me enough info to do what I need but it's pretty heavy any suggestions are welcome in advance

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uggabugga MP Donator Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Torshavn Posts: 64 Thanks: 8 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Country:	You could try www.magic-tagger.com. It's 19 EUR but I think It's worth it! __________________ ######### #UggaBugga# #########

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2008-01-02, 10:48	#2 (permalink)
Maschine Portal Developer Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Germany Posts: 514 Thanks: 13 Thanked 5 Times in 5 Posts Country:	Hmm, I think I didn't get your aim yet... If you just want to have the artist and album information from your folder structure to use it in MP I think it would be easier to use an MP3 tagger. Most of those can create ID3-Tags from the directory structure. MP can then read the tags and import the data to the DB. Because you were asking for webservices: I think last.fm also offers some services, but didn't look at those yet... Maschine

2008-01-02, 15:59	#3 (permalink)
pegisys Portal Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 26 Thanks: 6 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Country:	I had gotten the album and artist info from the folders, I already did that much and it works great, basically what I want now is track name, track number, year, song length. My ideal service would let you search by artist and album and it would return the track info. I figured I could compare the song length between what is returned and what I have and get decent results. I have tried some mp3 tagger programs that do something similar but they all seem to need more user interaction then I want to give it. My program is fully automatic, but I have not used all tagger programs so it may be on that does exactly what I want and I don't know about it. thanks I will see what last.fm has to offer