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I have to disagree with the author regarding Ex Falso / Quod Libet. At least for classical music, I find them FAR superior to any of the other options, and I've tried every one listed in the article, on a collection of ~3000 tracks in FLAC format. Ex Falso / Quod Libet can fully exploit the ID3v2 tag standard - it isn't limited to some subset of the predefined tags an individual developer thought were worthwhile, and it supports the aspect of the ID3v2 standard that lets you define arbitrary tags. The ability to have distinct composer, conductor, and soloist tags is really nice (required in my case). It has far and away the most powerful capability I've seen to extract tag information from file / path names. It has a good interface for searching your collection. Finally, it's enormously faster at writing tags. On the same computer, writing tags to each of the tracks in an album takes 10-20 seconds per track with EasyTag, and less than 1 second per track with Ex Falso / Quod Libet.

To be fair, the "searching google" feature that the author seems to want is not something I use; classical music metadata is just not out there, so it's not a real value for me.

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