> - Advanced mp3 tags - can be handled by id3. Mixxx should be able to read useful non-standard tags, such as the musicbrainz tags that Picard inserts.
Good point. Can you file this to a separate bug and give more details?
> The biggest problem related to leaving tagging to an external app is that if a track file is renamed, all of the Mixxx data is lost. The best way to deal with this would be to ID tracks based on a hash of the actual sound data, instead of the file name.
Thanks to Max, MIxxx has made great progress in finding renamed track.
See e.g.: Bug #804700 Automatically identify songs using fingerprinting methods and lookup/clean metadata from online-sources (e.g. MusicBrainz)
> - Advanced mp3 tags - can be handled by id3. Mixxx should be able to read useful non-standard tags, such as the musicbrainz tags that Picard inserts.
Good point. Can you file this to a separate bug and give more details?
> The biggest problem related to leaving tagging to an external app is that if a track file is renamed, all of the Mixxx data is lost. The best way to deal with this would be to ID tracks based on a hash of the actual sound data, instead of the file name.
Thanks to Max, MIxxx has made great progress in finding renamed track.
See e.g.:
Bug #804700 Automatically identify songs using fingerprinting methods and lookup/clean metadata from online-sources (e.g. MusicBrainz)
It would be a great help, if you could test the latest master version from https:/ /github. com/mixxxdj/ mixxx/ against your use cases. Instructions: http:// www.mixxx. org/wiki/ doku.php/ start#build_ mixxx