Re-Tagging Mass MP3 Files

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-08-16 02:24pm

So, simply put, I have alot of mp3s. I mean alot. I'm planning on getting an iPod sometime in the next few weeks, so in order to make my soundtrack collection more iTunes friendly, I was planning on relabeling the id3 tags with the artist and album names. Unfortunately, with a few thousand mp3s this is somewhat difficult. Are there any programs out there that will let me touch-up the tags of entire folders at once? Or do these simply not exist, and will I be relegated to purely manual touchups?

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2005-08-16 02:32pm

MP3tag, perhaps.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-08-16 03:00pm

Cool. I'll look into that one. Meantime, any other suggestions?

Jew · Post by **Jew** » 2005-08-16 03:14pm

General Zod wrote:Cool. I'll look into that one. Meantime, any other suggestions?

MusicBrainz is a project that analyzes the audio in the mp3 file and actually identifies the song by how it sounds. It connects to the MusicBrainz database and gets all the information to tag the file.

I've never used the Windows version of MusicBrainz, but I used it on Linux a few times and it seemed to work quite well. I would definitely try their tagger program; unless your music is obscure, MusicBrainz will probably identify a lot of it automatically.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-08-16 03:22pm

Jew wrote:

I've never used the Windows version of MusicBrainz, but I used it on Linux a few times and it seemed to work quite well. I would definitely try their tagger program; unless your music is obscure, MusicBrainz will probably identify a lot of it automatically.

Thanks for the heads up, but unfortunately alot of my music consists of videogame and anime soundtracks, so I don't know how well that'd work with them.

Embracer Of Darkness · Post by **Embracer Of Darkness** » 2005-08-16 04:20pm

MP3 Tag Tools v1.2 - Small, sweet, open-source.