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[DarienA]

Well I picked up a 30GB MP3 player over the weekend, and looking through my collection which I dumped on to the thing I see that some of MP3's have some series ID3 tag issues... Knowing nothing about this, are there any programs that are able to recreate the ID3 tag? Possibly based on the file name or some online database?

Yeah I have no idea what the hell I'm talking about so let me know if I'm doomed to have to manually go through and edit each one that is screwed up.

 

[JackFrost2012]

I went through this problem a while back and tried a few different programs ... some got close, but not really "worked." Taking the time to get up-close-and-personal with your MP3 collection seems to be the only real solution. Sucks, don't it?

BTW, once you finish ID3ing all your MP3s, BACK THEM UP!

You don't want to have to go through all that tagging again, do you?

 

[BreakyBoy]

Google up a program called "Tag & Rename".

I'm far too sleep deprived to do more than that for you at the moment.

Have fun. Properly tagging my MP3s to my anal hearts content took me the better part of two weeks.

 

[blahness]

this is the best tool that i have found to change ID3 tags based on file names as well as change file names based on ID3 tags

http://massid3lib.sourceforge.net/

 

[aoi tsuki]

I went through this problem a while back and tried a few different programs ... some got close, but not really "worked." Taking the time to get up-close-and-personal with your MP3 collection seems to be the only real solution. Sucks, don't it?

BTW, once you finish ID3ing all your MP3s, BACK THEM UP!

You don't want to have to go through all that tagging again, do you?

Backup 80GB of music? Pass.

There should be a piece of freeware out there that saves your library to an open format like XML so that your tags can be recreated should they be lost. i think iTunes does this, come to think of it.

 

[JackFrost2012]

Backup 80GB of music? Pass.

There should be a piece of freeware out there that saves your library to an open format like XML so that your tags can be recreated should they be lost. i think iTunes does this, come to think of it.

I have 55 GB (active). Burning a few DVDs is worth the peace-of-mind for a few weeks worth of work. (You may think tagging MP3s is annoying, but you don't know annoying until you've redone 10 GB of Japanese music with Japanese-language ID3 tags...)

 

[DarienA]

Thanks folks.. looks like I've got some work to do.... now when I use Windows Media or some other program to rip my old CD collection to MP3 will those programs handle the ID3 tags for me during the rip process?

I'd also appreciate any other ID3 tag suggestions to go along with those given already in this thread.

 

[aoi tsuki]

Yeah, WMP, iTunes, Real Player or any other big name player will automatically add the tags when it rips.

Personally, i use MP3Tag (http://www.mp3tag.de/en/). i've used The Godfather, Tag & Rename, and countless others, but MP3Tag's interface isn't cluttered like some and it just worked best "out of the box" for me. It handles nearly any format you should come across and has several methods to rename/tag files. i think it can name files via CDDB, but i haven't used that option.

 

[beaglebot]

This thing rules. It'll whip through all your files, look them up online, automatically reset all the ID3 tags, rename the files and copy them into new directories.

http://musicbrainz.org/

 

[mrklaw]

I use tag&rename. There isn't a super easy solution, but it helps.

If your mp3s are organised in folders by artist/album/filename.mp3, then it can recreate basic tag info from the path.

 

[Mugen]

iTunes renames ID3 tags wonderfully already.

 

[Cauliflower of Love]

ID3tag it.


If you have your mp3s seperate by folders and similarly named, it makes it easier. You can set variables to grab from the file name and they'll be dumped into the id3 tags.


ex:

1 Britney_Spears_-_I_Am_Trash.mp3
2 Britney_Spears_-_Reall_I_Am.mp3

You would put

T A_-_N

(Those aren't exact variables btw). Select all the same ones and it works like a charm.

 

[SKluck]

Another recommendation for Tag&Rename. It lets you pull the tags from filenames, it pulls the tags from Amazon.com too based on length of songs and amount of tracks (Works great). Really, there is no better program.

I tagged 3000 songs in about 3 days with it. And that is from scratch too, because for many years I erased the tags on every song I had.

 

[Cauliflower of Love]

Another recommendation for Tag&Rename. It lets you pull the tags from filenames, it pulls the tags from Amazon.com too based on length of songs and amount of tracks (Works great). Really, there is no better program.

Sonofabitch I was looking for something like that before.

 

[VALIS]

I've found Ultra Tag Editor to be better than Tag & Rename for my purposes. The amount of mp3's I have (nearly 1TB), tagging mp3 files is like a full time job. I probably spend a couple hours a day doing it. Pain in the ass.

 

[The Faceless Master]

Backup 80GB of music? Pass.

There should be a piece of freeware out there that saves your library to an open format like XML so that your tags can be recreated should they be lost. i think iTunes does this, come to think of it.

thats only 20 dvdr... thats less than $10... JUST DO IT!!!

you dont even have to do it all at once... just a few at a time...