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Advanced tag listing software for Windows

Hi people.
I've been wanting to make a complete list of music on my HDD for a while, and I even did write command-line script which generates artist/year/album information based on folder structure and writes it to csv file.
But this way I'm still missing several things. The first is unicode support (cmd.exe with its 'for' downgrades all symbols to plain latin), and the second is extended tagging and format/bitrate information.

So I look for tagging software which can list tags, preferrably with customizable output format, so I can just call it from within of my script. I tried tag.exe, mp3tag and some others, but their features seem to be limited only to writing and maybe giving a full list of tags for specified file (tag.exe can do it).
Or is there a way to do all this from some existing GUI software, without any command-line scripting? TagScanner almost seemed to be able to do it, but as far as I can tell it's discontinued, and the last version has a few glitches on list generating tab. Not all columns are shown and such.
Any foobar2000 (which I use) feature or component which I don't know about, maybe?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Advanced tag listing software for Windows

Reply #2 –
mp3tag has a great export feature, which allows one to export specific information about the music collection, or even a subset.  There are a ton of exports that have been created by users on that site that can be found in the forums.  My favorite is an html export by squonk63, which gathers tags from every song, groups them by album (sorted by artist).  It will display album art if you have it, and when you click on an album, it displays all of the songs, and any information you have the script collect.

Advanced tag listing software for Windows

Reply #3 –
Mediamonkey comes with some export scripts (to html/xmls/cvs etc) and its easily scriptable (if you know vbscript), and there are several available user scripts as well.

Advanced tag listing software for Windows

Reply #4 –
kjoonlee and kockroach, thanks a lot!  It seems I underestimated mp3tag. Its export configurations archive together with foo_utils are just what I was looking for. I'll just play with them both and see if I manage to make any of export presets to work with foo_utils.

Quote from: Teknojnky on
Mediamonkey comes with some export scripts (to html/xmls/cvs etc) and its easily scriptable (if you know vbscript), and there are several available user scripts as well.
Judging by the screenshot, it's a bit too bloated, and I don't know vbs at all. But thanks anyway.
 

Advanced tag listing software for Windows

Reply #5 –
Quote from: Hakubo on
Quote from: Teknojnky on
Mediamonkey comes with some export scripts (to html/xmls/cvs etc) and its easily scriptable (if you know vbscript), and there are several available user scripts as well.
Judging by the screenshot, it's a bit too bloated, and I don't know vbs at all. But thanks anyway.


Heh, I think thats the first time I've heard that, but I guess you'll never know until ya try it. Glad you found a solution tho.