Podcast id3 tagging automation

[sixstring]

I produce several podcasts and am getting really frustrated with editing the id3 tags for each episode every time I produce a new one. Does anyone know of any id3 tagging solution (esp. open source) that will automate most of the tagging?

I'm looking for something that will let me select my file, then choose from a list of id3 templates I have created. I would then simply add the episode title and the show notes.

This would be a huge time saver.

Thanks

[m3wse]

I encode my files with ffmpeg so I can set tags as I encode it... (also it's great for automating encoding to half a dozen formats...

[sixstring]

Excellent idea - I can write some batch files using ffmpeg that will allow me to do what I'm trying to do.

Thanks

[veronicazilla]

That still seems like too much hand-tagging. I like your idea of a dropdown menu with templates! If anyone finds something like that, let me know!

V

[shadowtech]

I don't know of an app per-se, but what I do is uses iTunes and textexpander to automatically fill in some of the fields. I usually select a few files I need to edit en masse and then just type in my textexpander shortcut.
http://www.smileonmymac.com/textexpander/

[gimpbully]

there's a great little python or perl script we use in-house called eyeD3 for our id3 tagging. If you notice the format of our filenames, it's fairly simple to just poll the filename and use it for the various arguments to eyeD3. We even cram in some album art!

Oh if you all only knew how much our encoding process relies on filenames...