Recommended tagging utilities

[SoundAdikt]

Folks,

Last night I finally got round to sorting out some of my compilation albums that were incorrectly tagged, ie. COMPILATION with a value of 1. I primarily use Linux but really struggled to find a solution that would work reliably over an SMB based shared drive to my Synology drive. Yes, they could see the files although almost all I tried didn't show the mapped drive in the open file dialogue - I had to rummage into /run/user/1000/gvfs/ and from there, select the mapped drive. All failed at being able to save updated tag file properly - meaning EasyTag, Kid3 and MusicBrainz Picard - I gave up trying others.

Under VMware I then tried the trusty MediaMonkey under Windows. This has no problem accessing the shared folders but I couldn't find a way of setting the COMPILATION tag. I can change the dialogue to change CUSTOM1 to COMPILATION under options, but this only changed the dialogue, the file is still tagged with CUSTOM1. Eventually, I resorted to using MP3TAG under Windows which worked fine, but crikey - what a large amount of effort for something that should really be not that difficult.

Thoughts welcome.

SoundAdikt.