Downloader : Edit MP3 tags with accurate genres

[krthush]

I know this is likely a tricky one... since when you download through the monstercat website itself (at least for the 320kbps mp3s like I download) you only get a file with a genre of "electronic"

Now I know that the catalog itself (on the official monstercat page + the monsterutils tool) do know of the more specific genre for the songs (e.g. "Future Bass", "Nu Disco", etc.) Was wondering how hard something like this would be to implement - would make for a far more accurate/complete library which I think a lot of people would love!

I can imagine it could be hard since I assume you currently download through an API to monstercat, doing something like this may involve actually editing the file tags after the download.

[defvs]

This already has been discussed on the discord; we could modify the MP3 tags on download with the MCatalog genres or the API genres, but dealing with MP3 tags is hard and we haven't figured it out yet.
We'll probably do it one day, but it isn't high priority for now.

[defvs]

This could be an interesting library. Allows for editing tags easily. http://javamusictag.sourceforge.net/

[xeruf]

This could be an interesting library. Allows for editing tags easily. http://javamusictag.sourceforge.net/

Looks interesting.

I have used http://www.jthink.net/jaudiotagger/ before and have already been thinking about implementing this feature with it, but never got around to it. More interesting to me would then be BPMs n stuff actually.

[defvs]

I could try a few thing, but as you said we need to prioritize fixing bug first before implementing new features