Downloading CD information

netvista

don't know if this is the right place for the thread so feel free to move it.

got a good few mp3 albums at home from a friend but they only have the album and artist name on them no track listing. is there anyway to get the cd information onto them or any do i have to do it manually. btw i'm using the latest version of windows media. all help would be appreiciated.

Soundman

There is some software you can get called Godfather which will help do the job.

DJ_Spider

I use this..it's free and will do full directories

http://www.id3-tagit.de/english/index.htm

I always clean everything up with this, even stuff that looks OK. It's also VERY fast, and as far as I can see, totally bug free - never had it crash.

Works best if you have a set way of doing things.

Start by getting the names of you're files reasonably consistent -
don't worry about what the tags look like. I always use
Album-Track - Artist - Title (<B>-<K> - <A> - <T>)


You then use ID30-tagit and use the filename to create the ID3 tags
(work with ID3v2, then copy to ID3V1 at the very end).


Clean up the grammar in artists, titles, albums etc.


If you need to use the enumerate function to create track numbers
(very good for numbering a double album from say 01 to 44, instead of
having to call it Album-DiscA and Album-DiscB). Remember to deactivate
it when you've done numbering an album.


A lot of the programs that auto populate ID3 tags do so in odd ways,
and you end up needing to tidy up afterwards. But even here ID3-tagit
is great, cos you can select one or more albums and update just a
single attribute on each file. Its also very good at


What you end up with is a very consistent ID3 tag structure.

netvista

thanks for the help. will have to give it a go later when i get home.