Free program to update my mp3s tags?

Ace

does anyone know a free program that i can use to fix/update the tags of my mp3s?

any help is much appreciated

Sput2001

If you use Windows then Windows Media Player 10 has a downloadable plug-in which allows you to do that.

davery83

Any idea what the plugin is/does?
Does it read the track info from the net? I currently use Winamp, but some of my CD's I've burned onto my pc don't have the track info or its not how I'd like it to be.
I used to use MediaMonkey to play music as that had a tag editor but I don't want to install it just to use the tag editor!

Mattjimf

The one i use that i find is very good is tag scanner. Simple to use, can select how the files are renamed, and can get the info from the internet.

Seamus

I can recommend mp3tag for doing this. It's excellent.

The database it gets it's info from has a much better hit rate than Windows Media Player and you can tag stuff in batches. You can alos get it to rename all your files to conform with the tag info.

You can get it from http://www.mp3tag.de/

dudleyboy

Agree with Seamus, Mp3tag is the best free software i've found to update the tags on multiple files. I also use Bulk Rename Utility along with Mp3tag to rename some files prior to tagging. Both are simple to use (don't let the interface of BRU scare you off) and pretty fast.

Bulk Rename Utility: http://www.tucows.com/preview/294131

Mp3tag: http://www.tucows.com/preview/335140

phildobson

in my opinion the best mp3 tag editing program with lots of other useful features to has to be the godfather. http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/

Ace

thanks for everyones help, but i am looking for a program that would fix the ame of my mp3 and its tag, even if the song was just x1.mp3, without any tags. is there a program that would do such a thing. cause the other programs seem to need some sort of info.

Seamus

Ace wrote:

thanks for everyones help, but i am looking for a program that would fix the ame of my mp3 and its tag, even if the song was just x1.mp3, without any tags. is there a program that would do such a thing. cause the other programs seem to need some sort of info.

mp3tag does just this. e.g. you open a directory containing the mp3 files of a specific album. The files can be called anything. You highlight the files in mp3tag and do a remote CDDB lookup. This looks in the massive CDDB database for anything that matches your selection. I assume it does it by number of tracks and the length of time for each track. When it finds a match you accept/decline it and it sorts your tags out. You can then use another option to rename your files in line with your tags.

zaphy42

I've always used MP3 Tag Tools from here: http://massid3lib.sourceforge.net/

Features:

* ID3v1.1 & ID3v2.x support
* Tag mp3s even while playing them
* Mass ID3 tagging
* Custom Filename Format specification like "(<Artist>) - <Album> - <Title> - <Ignore>" using shortcuts "(*1) - *2 - *3 - *0" or selecting checkboxes
* Write ID3 tags from Filenames using Custom Filename Format
* Rename Filenames From ID3 tags using Custom Filename or Directory Format
* Remove All ID3v1.1 or ID3v2.x tags
* Remove All Non-ID3 tags
* Create ID3 tags using Directory Formats
* Create Directories and organize mp3s from ID3 tag info
* Selectively Copy or Synchronize ID3v1.1 & ID3v2.x tags
* Sort and export tag data as Tab delimited text files for import to spreadsheet programs
* Lyrics and Picture tagging
* Cleaning Filenames of unwanted charachters such as %20 and underscores "_", remove excess whitespace, Correcting their case to capitalize the first letter of each word or after symbols or prefix words
* Accurately read all MPEG info and append bitrate and mode to filenames
* Recursion - All these tag operations can be carried out by individually selecting one or more files from a mp3 tag list, created by searching a specified directory with or without recursion.
* Use MTT as a hard drive mp3 search tool and virtual playlist

wongo

I quite like the freeware media Tagger, available here:

http://www.volny.cz/media-tagger/eng/