General
Installing Puddletag
sudo apt install puddletag
Making changes
- Changes made in the main track listing pane are automatically saved
- Or select one or more tracks, make changes in the Tag Panel pane, click Save
- You can also select a tag for multiple tracks using shift-click and paste the same value into all selected tracks
Renaming files
- Put this in the text box on the left side of the top toolbar:
- For Track number - Title:
$num(%track%,2) - %title%
- For Artist - Title:
%artist% - %title%
- For Track number - Title:
- Select all tracks to rename
- Click the F button to the right of the text box
Adding album artist column:
- Right-click column names > Select Columns…
- Click plus sign
- Title: Album Artist
- Field: albumartist
- In the left, check Album Artist
- OK
Auto numbering for tracks
- Select all the tracks to autonumber
- Tools > Autonumbering Wizard > OK
Replacing text
- Select the tracks you want to update
- Actions > Functions > Replace
- Under Fields choose the field you want to update or __all for all fields
- Fill in the Replace and with fields > OK
String formatting
- Select the tracks you want to update
- Actions > Functions > Format value
- Under Fields choose the field you want to update or __all for all fields
- Under Format string, you can rename a tag based on the contents of that tag or another tag, for example
- Lesson %title%
Tags
List all tags and versions
Windows > make sure Stored Tags is checked
Helpful tags
- Filename without extension:
__filename_no_ext
- This can be used, for example, to append a tag to the existing filename, e.g.
%__filename_no_ext% - %title%
- This can be used, for example, to append a tag to the existing filename, e.g.
For more tags, see https://docs.puddletag.net/source/tags.html
Look up tags using online sources
See also: Using Tag Sources
- Windows > Tag Sources
- (Optional) If other windows are open (e.g. Artwork), close them to have more space to work
- Source
- Try AcoustID first, which will search by audio fingerprint
- If that doesn’t work, try MusicBrainz or another source
- (Skip this step for AcoustID) In the search box you can type artist; album, e.g: pimsleur; french plus
- Click Search
- Select all of the tracks you want to update
- Select an album to preview the changes
- If you want to apply the updates, click the Write button inside the Tag Sources pane
- Close the Tag Sources window if desired
If MusicBrainz is giving 404 errors:
- Go to https://musicbrainz.org and find the album using search (or use a web browser) 👉 Make sure to select the appropriate search field as it defaults to Artist
- Copy the UUID from the URL (e.g. cf81efdc-4b9d-4f84-a742-9a8f42da8014) 👉 Confusingly, this is the MBID, which is different from the album ID that will show in Puddletag
- In Puddletag, search with this syntax:
:b UUID
e.g.
:b cf81efdc-4b9d-4f84-a742-9a8f42da8014
Album art
See if a track has album art
- Open the folder containing the tracks you want to update
- If you don’t see the Artwork pane on the right, go to Windows and check Artwork
- Look at the Artwork pane on the right to see if the album art is there
Add album art
- If you don’t see the Artwork pane on the right, go to Windows and check Artwork
- Select all the tracks you wish to update
- In the Artwork pane on the right, right-click the image preview > Add cover
- Browse to the cover you wish to add
- Click the Save button near the top left
Remove album art
- If you don’t see the Artwork pane on the right, go to Windows and check Artwork
- Select all the tracks you wish to update
- In the Artwork pane on the right, click the arrows until you see _
_ - Click the Save button near the top left
Change album art
ⓘ There’s a Change cover option in the Artwork window but I couldn’t get it to work to apply changes to all tracks. But this works:
- Follow the steps above to remove album art
- Follow the steps above to add album art