I'd like to search and replace of all tag data (eg title) in my music collection.

What would be the best way to go about doing this?

My personal favorite tagger is Picard, which uses Musicbrainz date to create tags, and can even correct your filenames if you want. There are lots of options, so you might start with an album or two at first, before using it on larger chunks of your collection. Great task to do while watching TV, etc.

Very obscure music and some older classical disks aren't in the database, but most of the data is very high quality, and Picard does a superb job on about 99% of my collection.

valoriez wrote:My personal favorite tagger is Picard, which uses Musicbrainz date to create tags, and can even correct your filenames if you want. There are lots of options, so you might start with an album or two at first, before using it on larger chunks of your collection. Great task to do while watching TV, etc.

Very obscure music and some older classical disks aren't in the database, but most of the data is very high quality, and Picard does a superb job on about 99% of my collection.

Picard looks good. But what I'm really looking for is a way using the script console to scan the tracks in my collection and do a search and replace and update the tags that way.

I'm not sure exactly what you want, but Amarok does do some automatic tagging based on your tracknames, and there is a Organize Files function as well. Beyond that, in the track edit or album edit dialog, you can choose Musicbrainz which will do a lookup and tag fix if you choose to.

valoriez wrote:I'm not sure exactly what you want, but Amarok does do some automatic tagging based on your tracknames, and there is a Organize Files function as well. Beyond that, in the track edit or album edit dialog, you can choose Musicbrainz which will do a lookup and tag fix if you choose to.

My question isn't about how to let musicbrainz choose my tags.

I want to do something like this:

for each track in collection
do
track.title = concatenate(track.filename.substring(1,2), track.title)
end for

Is this possible using amarok scripting?

Did you have a look at the scripting API: http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Development/Script_API ?
There also is http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Development/ ... _HowTo_2.0
and http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Development/ ... torial_2.0