puddletag VS BeetsPluginStructuredCommen

For subsequent tagging I use Puddletag or Picard. Puddletag's great for automated tagging as well as getting tags in great shape, customised tagging, formatting and renaming/moving folders and collateral. It also supports tag sources in addition to Musicbrainz.

I use puddletag for many years and am pretty happy with it. It's still actively developed.

puddletag is pretty nice. I'm mostly using it for filename->tag and cleaning up tags (case conversion, remove whitespace etc.), it reminds me a bit of Foobars Mass Tagger which I loved.

puddletag also has an autotagging feature https://docs.puddletag.net/

I use beets and I use Rekordbox to play music from my controller for DJ'ing. The problem I had was how to use the tags and other fields including custom ones I made from beets in Rekordbox. I made a plugin that takes a template and applies it to the `comments` field of the music file which I can read anywhere.

You can see it here: https://github.com/michaeltoohig/BeetsPluginStructuredCommen...

This joined with a few other plugins allows for really great dynamic playlist building. Then when I'm playing music I can effortlessly choose songs to play together without necessarily even remembering what the song sounds like before starting.

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