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		DanBC on April 22, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My Quest to Build the Ultimate Music Player There is a niche for some kind of service to fix tags and file names. I too have many GB of files with odd file names and bad tagging, and I'd love a sensible way to fix it.

maxerickson on April 22, 2014 [–]

I never decided I trusted the default MusicBrainz tagger, but they are working on the problem.

Beets was posted here a while ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7337021

http://beets.radbox.org/

It can pull data from MusicBrainz and people seem pretty happy with it in that thread.

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