Comments on: Need Help with MP3 File Tagging

By: Gaby

Gaby — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:37:56 +0000

A good tag editor and music organizer is Mp3 Tag Pro, it is easy to use, can search for id tags in internet, create playlists, download lyrics.

By: chunter

chunter — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:36:53 +0000

If nobody’s solved this one for you yet, write me and I’ll send you a program written in Perl. If I haven’t written the program already (since this is a problem I’ve wanted to resolve on my own collection) I’ve already written other programs that do the rest of the steps, it’s just a matter of putting the lines together.

You will need a Perl interpreter to run the result, of course…

Best wishes

By: Philthee

Philthee — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 11:00:28 +0000

Hi Dave,

Did you solve this yet?
If not, check out Atelio’s Ultra Tag Editor:
http://www.atelio.com/ultra-tag-editor/

It’ll do exactly what you want – all you need to do is tell it which parameters (artist, song, etc) are in the filename, which order they’re in, and what separators you have between them.

Enjoy!

By: hypert

hypert — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 01:49:57 +0000

On Windows, MP3 Tag Tools (http://sourceforge.net/projects/massid3lib) does this very well. If you have a Mac, email me, as I have an AppleScript that does this.

By: Elbee

Elbee — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 20:55:49 +0000

Hi, the program “ID3 renamer” can help you (Windows) I guess.

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Cheers,

Elbee

By: Elbee

Elbee — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 20:10:43 +0000

Hi, maybe this tool will work for you: ID3renamer, it will use filename parts for ID3 fields of you choice.
You can find it here http://www.id3renamer.com/

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Elbee

By: speedwiz

speedwiz — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:34:24 +0000

Tag and Rename is very very good for that purpose. Not only can you mark entire folders and tag things like Album, CD etc for all files at once, you can also search online Databases and amazon for the cds and copy titleinformation aswell as cover and backgroundinfos automatically.

Very useful tool for tagging.
http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm

By: Serakina

Serakina — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:16:03 +0000

Hi Dave,
had same Problem here, I used theGodfather for quite a while, but it is quite complicated
http://users.forthnet.gr/the/jtclipper/
The I changed to MP3Tag and this is very nice,
http://www.mp3tag.de/en
easy, and quick.
Cheers
Serakina

By: Valerio

Valerio — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:07:18 +0000

If I remember right “the godfather” does this on the pc. will check later at home and maybe post a link. Thanks for these great shows.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 06:12:57 +0000

Dave,

The program you want is this small but powerful application called “Renamer”

You can download it here:
http://www.albert.nu/default.asp?sub=programs/default.asp?sub=renamer/main.htm

Install and open. From there, navigate to the appropriate directory (you can include subfolders too). Under the “List” command verify that “work on all items” is selected (assuming all the files in the folder are what you want to work on).

Go to Id3v1 tags > “Get tags from filename”. For the file name format, put in “%a – %b.mp3″ and then let it run. Viola!

Don’t forget to hit the rename button (the big button with the A -> B on it) to save the changes. It does not rename the files instantly, just incase you make a mistake.

The only downside to this program is that it only works with ID3v1 tags, not v2. However, if you’re mp3s have NO tags at all .. that will not matter. The only time this will be a problem is if there is information in the ID3v2 fields. This will override the v1 tags in most players.

But, if you tags have NO data at all, this is a non-issue.

If you’re an organization nut like me, I recommend you play around with the program a bit more. It’s very functional even if it doesn’t look spectacular. My favorite feature is the “multi-change”. This is great way to change mp3s that come like “(Artist) – Album – Track – Song.mp3″ to “Artist – Song.mp3″ or something similar.

Hope this helps.

By: whocares

whocares — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:47:40 +0000

Hi Dave,
I think iTunes does that if you drop such files on a new playlist, if it is named like that and does not contain ID3 tags.
BTW, thanks for the music.

By: Colin Meeks

Colin Meeks — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:52:37 +0000

Hey Dave, I love a challenge. Just knocked up an app to do just that. Will need to test later at home. Will then send you a copy.

Colin

By: Bob Goyetche

Bob Goyetche — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:12:38 +0000

On the windows platform, mp3tag (www.mp3tag.de/en) does this very well, you can setup patterns and have it write tags based on the filename (or the other way around too)

I haven’t found an equivalent for mac yet..

hope that helps