Track tags

[J Huss]

Is there a way to download or update the track and album tag info in my Poweramp library ?

[andrewilley]

You can view, and then update, the Title and Album tag contents for specific songs by using menu=>Info/Tags.

For doing a lot of mis-tagged songs though, I'd suggest using a batch tag editor program, ideally on a computer, rather than doing it song-by-song in Poweramp.

Andre

[J Huss]

Thx for the guidance, Andre. I ran into this once before years ago but I was hoping there was maybe now some link feature to search for tag info like you can for lyrics. Last time I had to import my entire library list to Windows Media player then back. I'm sure it will work again, no biggie,  thanks.

[andrewilley]

No, there is no automatic way in Poweramp to search for the title, artist, album and other info based on the audio content of the file. There are programs that may be able to do that (Soundhound does it for listened music) but they need access to a huge online library of historical song recordings and metadata. Lyric and album art searches are only possible in PA by using the already-embedded Title, Artist and Album tags and passing that detail out for external searches - but if those tags are not present, it won't work.

If your filenames use a logical and consistent syntax pattern - for example, "%track% - %artist% - %album% - %title%" then the batch tag editing programs I mentioned earlier would be able to try to parse the filenames and insert the separated results into the file's tags - but it's rare for that to be 100% accurate. 

Andre

[Fitzian]

3 hours ago, J Huss said:

Thx for the guidance, Andre. I ran into this once before years ago but I was hoping there was maybe now some link feature to search for tag info like you can for lyrics. Last time I had to import my entire library list to Windows Media player then back. I'm sure it will work again, no biggie,  thanks.

"Automatic Tag Editor" on the play store does a fine job on Android, even managing to grab album art that I myself couldn't even find with a thorough google image search or albumartexchange. It hasn't (for me) found the full gamut of obscure or less used tags (like composer) but everything else it's found is quite accurate.

Still recommend mp3tag on windows, though, it's much better at managing a bigger library and with a little setup you can make smart use of batch operations.