Ok, yes, I know, EasyTAG is old (like me), and hasn’t been in development for years and years, but does anyone know if I can get it to save metadata changes for songs I have stored on my NAS? I think I’ve tried to do this unsuccessfully in the past, but is there a way to do this? Or is there a better music metadata editor that can make changes to songs on my NAS?

    • hedge@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Please don’t give up on me yet! I’m able to sync files from my laptop to my NAS, add and delete files from there, and change the names of files and folders on it, but I don’t know if that qualifies as write access (I would think that it does . . . ?).

      What I can’t change, at least with EasyTAG, are the ID3 (?) tags of the music files I have on the NAS. The NAS appears to be mounted with a samba share (smb://hedges-nas.local.music). When I right click on that folder and go to properties: permissions, it will say something like “file permissions could not be determined” so I can’t do anything via that route. Another, I guess, “path” to the Music folder on the NAS is via gvfs. To actually edit album info and have it take, I need to copy the album folders to my desktop and edit them there before putting them back on the NAS, which is kind of a pain, but not horrible. Maybe I just need another tag editor . . . suggestions are welcome.