Ex Falso - MP3 Tag Editor

I've just discovered Ex Falso, a GUI-based audio-file tag editor (MP3s and everything else). You can manually add and edit tags, create tags based on file names, rename files based on tags, add sequential track numbers, all the general things you need. It's part of the Quod Libet media player, but if you're happy with your media player you can use the Ex Falso editor as stand-alone.

It's a GTK+ app, written in Python and is in the standard Ubuntu repositories:

sudo apt-get install exfalso

Normalise Volume of Quiet mp3 Files

Got some quiet mp3 files? These can be easily fixed with the normalize-audio package in Ubunutu. Install with:

sudo apt-get install normalize-audio

then run as:

normalize-audio -v myfile.mp3

where the -v just gives some verbose output.

If you have several files you want to normalise to the same level use the --mix switch; this will adjust quiet files more than average files. To apply the same amount of volume correction to several files use the --batch switch. E.g.:

normalize-audio -v --mix *MyAlbum*.mp3