id3 tagging

banbutcher · 28-09-2002 6:38pm #1

ì was wondering is there a way of fixing over 2 gigs of tags?? some of em have tags and others dont is there a program that looks trough the internet or summat???

Ste- · 28-09-2002 8:14pm

winamp can do it or look for analog x tagmaster

shud do the trick

po0k · 29-09-2002 3:09pm

how would winamp do it?
As in manually?

Ste- · 29-09-2002 3:19pm

when ur playing the mp3 double click the scrolling name beside the timer or go to file > view file info or there should be a little letter i under a load of letters to the left of the timer then input the info and click update

Makaveli · 29-09-2002 3:23pm

I think he is looking for something that will do the tags for him so he doesnt have to do it himself.

tman · 29-09-2002 3:32pm

just go to download.com there should be a few apps for it there

daveg · 30-09-2002 9:23am

Try Mp3 tools tagger... excellent program and free

http://massid3lib.sourceforge.net/

banbutcher · 30-09-2002 1:22pm

This is all great but is any of it automatic as i have nearly 2gigs so sort trough - i dont want to have to go trough each and type its deatils. please tell me that there is an easier way???

Mr E · 30-09-2002 1:41pm

Depends on how they are named, banbutcher. If they are all named like...

01 - JJ72 - Nameless.mp3

... then tagging them is a piece of cake with any tagging software. If they are named differently in different folders, then its alot more difficult.

If however, you are looking for some sort of mechanism for automatically searching the web based on files in an album, I don't think there is anything like that available.

2 gigs is only 40 albums or so.... it shouldn't be too difficult to categorise them by naming convention (eg. put all folders with tracks in the above format in one directory (perhaps called num-artist-trackname), and set up other folders like num-trackname, and trackname etc. etc.

Then all you have to do is run the tagger over each directory tree with whatever parameters you want.

I like TagScan, by the way. Its very powerful and has a preview option that allows you to check that files are tagged correctly before committing the changes. I don't think it has a homepage, but you should be able to google it.

- Dave.

id3 tagging

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