ToeTag Readme

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Features:

• Query song information from the internet.
• Edit tag data directly in the grid!
• ReplayGain support! Normalize volume w/out re-encoding or losing fidelity!
• Intelligent capitalization (e.g. makes prepositions lower case unless they are part of a phrasal verb or the first or last word in the title).
• Extract tags from filenames with a convenient visual editor.
• Multi-Tag editor lets you set the same tag to all files (like Year, Album, Genre, etc...)
• Vista users (all 3 of them) will see the modern Vista appearance.
• Supports MP3, MP4, OGG, WMA, FLAC and WAV file formats.
• Renames or moves files based on the tags.
• Write all or selected to .M3U playlist (with extended information).
• Launch all or selected files in your preferred audio player.
• Fast! It loads and updates tags faster than the competition!

Installation:

Just run the installer. If the .NET Framework v2.0 or higher isn’t found, the installer will offer to download it. Please note that it will download the 32-bit version. If you are running a 64-bit version of Windows, please install the 64-bit version of the .NET Framework from Microsoft’s web site.

To use the visual editor:

1. Go to the Filename->Tag tab.
2. Click on "Visual Editor" button.
3. Look at the fields displayed and make sure the radio buttons correspond to the fields.
4. Click OK.
5. Select the files in the grid you want to apply this mask to and click "Apply."
6. Your data should be extracted from the filename and filled into the grid!

Limitation: Only looks for "-" and "." as separators. If you need to use other separators, just use the mask.

Getting song information from the internet:

1. Go to the CDDB tab.
2. Either enter an artist and/or title in the tab or select a grid entry with the artist/title.
3. Click on “Search.”
4. If multiple matches are found, a listbox will show up with the matches. Choose the correct entry and press “Select.”

Notes:

• If no files are selected in the grid many functions will appear not to work. There is an option under Grid to “Treat none selected as all.” This will select all files before any operation expecting selected files if none are selected.
• Double-click on edit fields in the grid to edit them.
• If you want to change the case of the existing tags, hit the button with the “A” on the toolstrip. At the moment it always uses intelligent case. I’ll make that an option in the future.
• There is no online help. If you can’t figure out how to do something that probably means it isn’t implemented.

Known bugs:

• There is currently no way to select which tags to edit (i.e. if a file contains ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags it will always edit the ID3v2 tag).
• Explorer tree throws an exception when started in some directories.
• Delete key sometimes does not work.

Areas that need testing:

• UNC paths. I don't have a network and can't test this feature. I'm pretty sure it will not work but I need to know what errors it throws. The C# Path class is great but has some really odd deficiencies. For example it has a function to combine paths, but if your paths are "C:\root\sub" and "..\newsub" you would expect the combined path to be "C:\root\newsub" but instead you get the invalid path "C:\root\sub\..\newsub"
• Audio file formats besides MP3.