What is Wrong with Chaotic Software’s Media Rage?
Sunday, November 13th, 2005These are in the context of cleaning/tagging 10-50 albums a day.
1. One window to confirm all changes.
It is too easy to make errors. You need to be able to see all your changes in one space so you can do sanity checks just once per album instead of having to pay attention to correctness at every step. Media Scrubber is close to this but it doesn’t have the capitalization tools and renaming tools that one needs.
2. Drag and drop is too clumsy for this level of productivity.
3. Needs the ability to automate.
4. It is too easy to tag the wrong album.
If you do not notice that the “Folder of Files to Change” is set to the wrong folder, you clicked to open it instead of dragging a folder on it’s button.
5. Early versions had better support for stripping filenames down to all english ASCII with no punctuation. So different OS’s/Devices don’t choke on the filenames.
6. If a track name has ? in it, the File Renamer won’t work. [or any other character OSX chokes on, I assume.]
I miss ID3-TagIT. But Media Rage is the best tagging tool for OSX that I’ve found.
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