Discovering new album art with bad tags
November 18, 2009 in album art by Dan Gravell
Music files, like MP3s and other formats, contain 'tags' which indicate the name of the track, the album from which the track comes and so on. The quality of these tags in your music files affect the ease and accuracy of automated album art download. The ideal tags are to have the album name tag populated with just the album name and likewise for the fields that describe the artist.In the real world, however, I encounter bad tags all the time. The tags are often polluted in some way with very common examples being extra characters to denote multi disc albums ("Disc one" or similar). More exotic variations exist, such as adding the year of release to the album name, or the record label.
These tagging approaches may be less than ideal, but they exist. bliss has to work with them.
bliss copes with existing bad tags in two ways:
- It manipulates the tag to improve the likelihood of an accurate match
- It uses 'fallback' sources for art (such as Google) with a higher likelihood of match which are presented to you to double check
Give bliss a try by downloading and let us know how you get on!
