Mp3tag is one of the better tag editors around, allowing you to edit the metadata (the information about a track’s name, size, album name, artwork, etc.) with a good degree of autonomy. Ensuring that all the tags in your audio files are correct can be a thankless task, but there’s plenty of software around that will make a much quicker job of it. Not only does it look a lot cleaner in your player, but it makes it a darn sight easier to organize your collection and manage playlists. There’s something very satisfying about having a hoard of music with the correct track and album names for each song. Most of us who own an MP3 player or play digital music on a computer will admit that it’s possible to get a little precious over your audio collection. I give it a 9/10.Easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of common audio formats Overall, MP3tag is a really great program and I recommend it for anybody remotely interested in organizing their music. While I don't have many files in this format It's annoying that I can't edit them. Without those two columns I am unable to determine whether the album actually contains the track or not.Īnother complaint I have is the program doesn't appear to be able to edit iTune/Apple's. The problem is, the results it returns only listsĪlbum names, and not the artist and track name. For instance I can search for an album name by supplying the program with an artist and a title. I tried using the toolīut it appears to be very unreliable and difficult to use. It uses a few different sources to achieve this. It comes with a 'tag sources' feature which will try to identify your songs and auto tag them. The program probably saved me 20 hours of time that it would have taken me to do, in the Windows interface. Just down-click on a file and the tag automatically turns into a textbox. MP3tag also makes editing one-off file tags much easier than using the Windows interface which requires you to right-click on a file, go to details, and then edit the file there. I found that many of my tags within the track number column were inconsistent such as 1/13, 1, 01 etc. MP3tag also comes with an auto-numbering track numberįeature where I can automatically assign track numbers to a list of MP3 files. MP3tag was also useful because I could 'mass tag' files by selecting them all at once, then in the left column apply a value to all of the files. This was especially helpful when I had all the tagging information correct but had an inconsistent It was really easy, and I managed to tag 2,000 MP3 files in a short amount of time.Īnother cool feature of MP3tag is it can actually take your tag information and rename your MP3's file name. I first ensured that all my files were named according to my naming conventionĪnd I then had MP3tag do the rest. MP3tag fortunately has a parsing feature that can loop through my MP3 file's naming convention and automatically tag my files. There was one saving grace for me, which was that I had named almost all of my MP3 files in a similar structure i.e. What I discovered was, while my ripped music was properly tagged, my other MP3 files on my computer were Fortunately when I ripped the music as MP3's I ensured that my files were tagged. Music I own on (which in MP3 format, appears to be 35gb). I did this because I plan to buy an MP3 player in the near future to basically put all the I recently ripped my entire CD collection as WAV files (for backup) and then I ripped it all again as MP3 files. If you use a tagging program like MP3tag, you won't have to worry about this anymore. Music within iTunes or Windows Media player the problem with this is, if you were to clear out your library within those programs you lose all your track information, because the programs do notĭirectly edit the MP3, but just store the tagging information in a separate database file. This also holds true on your computer whether you are using iTunes or Windows Media player. If you properly tag your MP3 files your MP3 player will group/sort your files in a more logical manner which willĪllow you to find the music you are looking for faster. Is also useful if you have a lot of songs on your computer. If you're not familiar with MP3 tagging, you should be, especially if you listen to a lot of music on a MP3 players such as the iPod or the Zune.
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