Easiest way of generating ID3 tags for mp3s?

Messiah Khan · 31 Oct 2006 at 21:46

Ive got a load of MP3s withough ID3 tags, but they all have the file name convention of;02 - Vangelis - Antartica - Antarctic Echoes.mp3 which is Track number - Artist - Album - track name. What is the best and esiest way of generation ID3 tags from that lot? No way am I doing it manually as there are loads.

Thanks.

NotAGolf · 31 Oct 2006 at 21:53

I use tag & rename, will do exactly what you want, might take a little bit of fiddling at first but its an amzing piece of software.

Origin · 31 Oct 2006 at 21:56

Another vote for Tag & Rename. I use it all the time. You can set the mask to exactly what you want and tag from filename. If you're quick you can do all of them in the 30 day trial version as it is fully functioning

rscosworth · 31 Oct 2006 at 21:58

i use a program called fixtunes

it costs a little but well worth it

i reworked over 10k tunes with it recently

no way i would have done that manually

Trixxy · 31 Oct 2006 at 22:29

I use a program called "Mp3tag".

http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

It can make ID3 tags from filenames, and filenames from ID3 tags.
Has some very nice batch renaming options aswell.

and it's free.

Glaucus · 31 Oct 2006 at 22:31

only one program that is any good with no id3 tags and tahts musicbrainz, forget the posts above.

Give it about 10mins use and you'll be flying though your mp3's

http://musicbrainz.org/doc/ClassicTaggerDownload

Pulseammo · 31 Oct 2006 at 22:39

Seconded on musicbrainz. Didn't realise it managed to do it from filenames though (thought it needed some basic meta). It also has audio fingerprinting as well. Anyway, musicbrainz if it works for you, absolutely amazing app.

Edit: theres a new version out than was linked above called musicbrainz picard. Its slightly different though, its more album based rather than track based, so you import a bunch of files, cluster it into an album, hit lookup and then it finds the album and tags the tracks based on what you select.

The old one was more automated and track based. So it could screw up if you just let it do its thing and then disengage brain.

Messiah Khan · 31 Oct 2006 at 22:44

Excellent guys, thanks a lot. I'll give those suggestions a go and see how it turns out. I might actually get my entire collection into some sort of order for once.

Clarkey · 1 Nov 2006 at 00:11

Tag&Rename for me, dead easy and quick.

Doohickey · 1 Nov 2006 at 00:42

Musicbrainz is a very cool piece of software, but I've found it's not 100% accurate.

I use mp3tag as mentioned, and if all your un-ID'd songs are named in the format you mention, then it's a breeze setting it up to pick out the artist/track name/number etc etc from the filename and creating the ID3 tag. And freeeeee