Hi there

I am new to Mp3tag and firstly would like to say what a great program this is. I run a licensed student radio and a while back a load of music was corrupt and many files lost their metadata - Mp3tag made it a lot easier with the use of it's tag sources to retrieve the correct tags and to fix the files.

I have noticed however a lot of tracks on iTunes that aren't on any of the other tag sources which means finding them can be tricky, usually need to manually add most of the data.

Would there be a way to include the iTunes database to retrieve the information or does Apple not allow for this?

Thanks

Do you mean the local iTunes database? AFAIK it is possible to create an XML export. As this behaves like plain text you should be able to create a suitable text file to import with MP3tag.

If you refer to the iTunes Store database: have you asked Apple? Do you know any other means to access that database except using iTunes?
My personal opinion: as Apple wants to sell the items (mostly) I doubt that they will allow or enable public access.

itunes does provide an API (Application programming interface), so it should be possible.

http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/res...search-api.html

Have a look at the search and lookup examples given there. These are the pages which must be parsed by Mp3tag.
But it would be a little bit of work to get it going.

As for the legal aspects, i think it's ok. The preview button would provied a direct link to their store page as they demand.

I'm working on it. Looks good!

Here is the first version.
Tested a few releases and artists, seems to work.

Written tag fields:
COVER; ALBUMARTIST; ALBUM; YEAR; PUBLISHER; GENRE; ARTIST; TITLE; TRACK

The cover picture is always only 100x100 pixels.

The PUBLISHER tag field is not always written in as one company. Ofter there is additional information.

For the TITLE tag field I have picked "trackCensoredName" instead of "trackName". According to itunes' description, the the diference should be that rude words are replaced by * (like "S**t Happens"). But I have detected some examples, where the "trackCensoredName" has the version name of the title (like "Title (Club Mix)" or "Title (Trentemøller Remix)") and "trackName" has not.
Example:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/reworked-...xed/id471858839
http://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=471858839&entity=song

The GENRE tag field displays only one main genre (like "Electronic"). The HTML pages have the more than one genre and more defined genre names (like "Electronic, Music, Dance, Techno, Ambient, House") The API has not (at least I don't know how to display it).
See the example above.

For the YEAR tag field, I was not able to get the original year when there are remastered versions on iTunes. The HTML pages have the original year. The API has not (at least I don't know how to display it).
Example:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hunky-dor...ered/id14684243
http://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=14684243&entity=song


Please give me feeback if you spot some problems.
Everybody is invited to develop and modify this script.

EDIT:
see web sources forum for the finished script

boah ey! Super

Thanks for the reply. I'm new to the program - how would I use the script?

script installation & usage:
1. download the .src file
2. move the file into this folder: %appdata%\Mp3tag\data\sources
(just copy&paste this into windows explorer adress bar)
3. run the script from Mp3Tag with this button: ▼

I made a extra topic for the script for download and further discussion:
http://forums.mp3tag.de/index.php?showtopic=15726

Do you think the developers would ever think of adding this as a default with all the other sources - would be handy.

I don't know. It doesn't matter, that's what the Web Sources Scripts forum is here for. Once you have downloaded the script from there and moved it into the correct folder, there is not difference to the ones that were there as default.