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PuddleTag (Linux Audio Tag Editor) 1.0.2 RC1 Released

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/index.html">PuddleTag</a>, a Linux audio tag editor similar to the popular Windows tool <i>Mp3Tag</i>, has been updated recently with new features and bug fixes.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3dnq_xOfBa407H53gveGAjQwN-8E6zXWxRAdAid_0tQfal4c5-OMSchwXIvzJYOdvvqdI4LDFzMarE2sWP0WiJCEklimk43X4LnRRzCkoMzsZNmRCY7s19-C41ErQ-CSUg3dyuEXCkSQ/s1600/puddletag.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="PuddleTag" border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3dnq_xOfBa407H53gveGAjQwN-8E6zXWxRAdAid_0tQfal4c5-OMSchwXIvzJYOdvvqdI4LDFzMarE2sWP0WiJCEklimk43X4LnRRzCkoMzsZNmRCY7s19-C41ErQ-CSUg3dyuEXCkSQ/s320/puddletag.png" title="PuddleTag" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">PuddleTag comes with a highly customizable interface and a spreadsheet-like layout, making it easy to edit all the tags you want. Using it, you can easily batch edit your music files tags, rename files based on tag information, supports adding album covers to your files, can import tags from Amazon, Discogs, FreeDB, AcoustID and MusicBrainz and more. It even supports Mp3Tag tag sources.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The application supports the following formats: ID3v1, ID3v2 (mp3), MP4 (mp4, m4a, etc.), VorbisComments (ogg, flac), Musepack (mpc), Monkey’s Audio (.ape) and WavPack (wv).</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The latest PuddleTag 1.0.2 RC1, released yesterday, features the following changes:</b></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">Added dropdown in Extended Tags that works like Tag Panel. Useful for editing multiple valued fields;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Support for MusicBrainz cover art;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Search by ID for MusicBrainz tag source;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Album art can be dragged from browser. If link can be resolved, image will be loaded;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">You can now submit your tags containing MusicBrainz IDs to AcoustID;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">__total can be edited in Tag Panel and other places;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Added disambiguation to album title for MusiBrainz so that album titles would be "Somaro (Deluxe Edition)" instead of just "Somaro";</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Multiple-valued fields can be added using '\\' in extended tags;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Added a confirmation dialog if copying large amounts of data;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Added canto field to Discogs tag source;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Column settings now take ordering made by user (by dragging, etc) into account;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Directory modified date is force-changed if files are modified;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Fixed: MP4 tagging not working at all;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Fixed: directory renaming not stripping invalid chars;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Fixed: $validate scripting function failing when '/' in arguments;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Fixed: unable to delete fields if __total populated;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Fixed: checked Actions being overwritten by check Quick Actions selections;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Fixed: Discogs didn't return all album info;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">more.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">PuddleTag 1.0.2 may not be considered a stable release yet, but its developer says he has been "<i>using this release since forever and consider it to work pretty well</i>" and if no issues are reported, he will release this as the stable 1.0.2 version.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install PuddleTag in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu users can install the latest PuddleTag by using the WebUpd8 PuddleTag PPA:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/puddletag<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install puddletag</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Or, if you don't want to add our PPA or you're not using Ubuntu, you can download the latest PuddleTag deb or source files from its downloads page:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/download.html#development-builds">Download PuddleTag</a></b></div>

PuddleTag (Linux Audio Tag Editor) 1.0.2 RC1 Released

PuddleTag , a Linux audio tag editor similar to the popular Windows tool Mp3Tag , has been updated recently with new features and bug fixes....

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjlnF_YTMFFY8h02w6iTCrhcRdp-c-MHzb3PEysoGoibCYxL1kK4vch9cZFNTkhDlNC1rQtXWEYiWt87DHKsFdxGMLxFHIA-VkVJ_WqdaQF_-wX2mbh3WMzbMrAoSaYSCoTWKMdS4vKMDI/s1600/puddletag.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="puddletag" border="0" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjlnF_YTMFFY8h02w6iTCrhcRdp-c-MHzb3PEysoGoibCYxL1kK4vch9cZFNTkhDlNC1rQtXWEYiWt87DHKsFdxGMLxFHIA-VkVJ_WqdaQF_-wX2mbh3WMzbMrAoSaYSCoTWKMdS4vKMDI/s320/puddletag.png" title="puddletag" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/">Puddletag</a> is an awesome <a href="http://www.mp3tag.de/en/">Mp3tag</a>-like audio tag editor for Linux which uses a spreadsheet layout so the tags are always visible, making it easy to edit them.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The application comes with a highly customizable interface and supports mass tagging and most features that should exist in an audio tag editor like extracting tag information from filenames, ranaming files based on their tags, along with some other cool features like support for downloading cover art via Amazon or retrieving tags from Discogs, FreeDB or MusicBrainz.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>After 8 months of work, Puddletag 1.0.0 stable has been released today. Here are the major changes included in the latest Puddletag 1.0.0: </b></div><ul><li>AcoustID support: AcoustID is a music fingerprinting service that works by calculating a unique fingerprint for your audio files and trying to match it to data in the AcoustID database. This allows you to find information for tracks that have no metadata. To be able to use this, you'll need libchromaprint-tools and libchromaprint0 - in Ubuntu, install them using "sudo apt-get install libchromaprint-tools libchromaprint0"</li><li>Mp3tag tag sources are fully supported</li><li>Massively updated parser</li><li>Fixed Amazon tag source as now requires AssociateTag to do lookups.</li><li>Improved mass tagging</li><li>Support for MusicBrainz's and Discogs's new API</li><li>$regex function added.</li><li>Updated icon</li><li>ID3v2.3 frames are written in same order as Mp3tag's.</li><li>VA album lookups for Discogs.</li><li>And many bug fixes</li></ul><br />For how to use Puddletag, visit its <a href="http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/docs.html">online documentation</a> (includes some tutorials too).<br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Puddletag in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To add the WebUpd8 Puddletag PPA and install the latest Puddletag 1.0 in Ubuntu Quantal, Precise, Oneiric, Natty, Maverick or Lucid, use the following commands (the package is also available in the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~nilarimogard/+archive/webupd8">main WebUpd8 PPA</a>):</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/puddletag<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install puddletag</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For other Linux distributions (there are also .deb files available for download if you don't want to use our PPA), get Puddletag via <a href="http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/download.html">SourceForge</a>.</div>

Audio Tag Editor `Puddletag` 1.0.0 Stable Released

Puddletag is an awesome Mp3tag -like audio tag editor for Linux which uses a spreadsheet layout so the tags are always visible, making it e...

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