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I had an Engineering Prof tell us that after we graduated
- we would forget 50% of what we learned.
- we would only use 50% of what we learned.
The trick is to forget the right 50%.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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And here I thought this was going to be a post by honey the codewitch. 
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It has in lower access times, size and power consumption. Why is that worth mentioning? Just goto the store and give your computer a little upgrade. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Ever since high school, something like 2000/2001, I've been an almost religious MP3 tagger.
Aside from where I got said MP3's (mostly torrents, back in the day), tagging MP3's can be a lot of work.
Especially when files.are.named.like.this.mp3, or_this.mp3, or worse, このような.mp3.
So back when I started programming, 10 years ago, I thought to myself I could make something to make it easier.
Something that would either read tags and rename the file, or read the file name and tag accordingly.
I wrote something half-assed back then, but never what I had in mind.
Then came Spotify and Bandcamp and I hardly ever needed MP3's anymore.
But last week I started ripping my considerable CD collection into 320kbps MP3's and this project popped into my head.
So after 10 years I finally did it! 
I can specify a file name template, like "C:\Music\{artist}\{album}\{disc}\{track} - {title}.mp3" and all MP3 files inside C:\Music get tagged with the appropriate tag (given the file name follows the template).
Likewise, I can add an output template and my MP3's will be renamed and/or moved to the new folder.
It can even fetch track titles from Discogs.
Ten years too late, and that was already ten years too late, but it gives me a satisfied feeling nonetheless
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Will it work for my 8 track tape collection?
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I hadn't... thanks
and I would say it looks like a good candidate for Free Tools Discussion Boards[^]
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The batch renaming function really is great!
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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I hadn't, never bothered to Google it actually 
In any case, I wanted to roll out my own because that's what real programmers do  
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Sander Rossel wrote: In any case, I wanted to roll out my own because that's what real programmers do
To quote @CPallini...
Real Programmers are Klingon Programmers
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
modified 7-Dec-20 8:58am.
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leSSov vIleghbogh suvwI' tIlegh.
I don't think it translates back to English
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Sander Rossel wrote: I don't think it translates back to nice English
FTFY
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Sander Rossel wrote: I wanted to roll out my own because that's what real programmers do
But real engineers survey the market, and then decide to "make or buy". Your time is valuable; don't waste it reinventing the wheel.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Your time is valuable; don't waste it reinventing the wheel.
All work and no pay makes Jack a dull boy!
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MP3Tag is AWESOME!
I wish it could do a certain routine for all subfolders in a folder, like: grab tags from Discogs, rename files to a certain pattern, save the m3u playlist, and move on to the next subfolder. All things it does very well, but only manually.
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread 
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I think filebot could have done it for you. free download. just sayin'
congratulations in any case.
Real programmers use butterflies
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And miss out on this achievement? Nah
However, now I could take a look at filebot (I just needed to write it, not actually use it)
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You have completed this journey. No more need be explained.
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I think you might be the only one who got the essence of my message 
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Quote: ripping my considerable CD collection into 320kbps MP3's
Aren't your CD's recorded at 44.1k? What will you achieve by upsampling?
Mircea
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I have no idea what that means.
As far as I understood, 320kbps is near-lossless audio quality, as opposed to 192 or even 128.
Of course I could go FLAC, but that's way too much MBs per minute.
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I ripped all mine to 128, I tried 320 but I couldn't tell the difference except for having way bigger files. I also temporarily put them on a USB stick to play in the car - usually at 64kbps because the sound quality is basically the same when you are driving around I can get hundreds of tracks on an 8GB stick.
PS. I use Mp3Tag for all the tagging and/or renaming. it works very well and saved me from writing my own.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Yeah, I did the same, especially because I used to have a 500 GB HD back in the day, which was full (with games and music).
For my MP3 player it's nice to have everything in 128 kbps as well.
However, I can't quite pinpoint it, but I notice a difference when I listen to a high quality recording or my own 128 kbps, especially on my headphones.
So since storage is no longer an issue, I decided to make my own collection high quality as well.
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Quote: especially on my headphones
Ah! There's your problem right there! I never use headphones and play everything on my computer speakers (or the aforementioned car) so the quality difference really doesn't show up.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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