78records Tagger
This is a simple script to automatically tag songs downloaded from the 78records.cdbpdx.com website. Before running the script, it is important that you add ID3 headers to all MP3s. You can do this by changing the tags (to anything you want) in your favourite MP3 player.
Once that is done, you may run the script with the syntax:
tagger.exe htmlfile mp3sdirectory
htmlfile being a local copy of the original webpage that links to all of the MP3s, and mp3sdirectory being the directory where the MP3s are stored.
Download (Windows binaries)
Script source (for all other operating systems; see below)
Notes
- Information regarding the record label and category number is stored in the “Website” ID3 tag. If this irritates you, simply do a mass-cut’n'paste of the tag in your media player.
- This script works best on large collections of records, with their own list (e.g. the ripped website found in a torrent on mininova, or the 1000 new recordings added Nov 7th 2009.)
- This script only works on the English records, as there is no metadata (apart from record label scans) available for the Japanese and Greek music.
- When run as an uncompiled python script (e.g. on Mac / Linux), you’ll need to have Python 2.x and Mutagen installed.
