easy free MP3 tagging software?

_Jimlad_ · 15 Jun 2008 at 19:34

i used to use a proggy called Tag & Rename, which i found worked well on my old pc, however don't think i had a legal copy

and have since built a new pc using vista, just wondering what free where proggys are out there and easy to use for getting album art and working out what the mp3's are?

Glaucus · 15 Jun 2008 at 19:45

music brainz.
http://musicbrainz.org
especially if some or all of the tag data is missing,

SexyGreyFox · 15 Jun 2008 at 19:47

ID3Tagit

dave-lew99 · 15 Jun 2008 at 19:58

MP3TagStudio http://www.magnusbrading.com/mp3ts/

ryder · 15 Jun 2008 at 20:03

I use Mp3tag. No complaints.

martin9887 · 15 Jun 2008 at 20:15

I use MP3 Tag Tools, http://massid3lib.sourceforge.net/.

Nice and simple.

LeperousDust · 15 Jun 2008 at 21:37

Music Brainz Picard, and accept no second rate substitute, well that is unless you like wasting your time tagging

Install the Album Art and Disc number plugin though.

fail at the internets · 15 Jun 2008 at 21:38

ryder said:
I use Mp3tag. No complaints.

jbloggs · 15 Jun 2008 at 21:44

The 2 best ones (that I know of), are MusicBrainz Picard and Mp3tag...

Of these two, probably Picard has the edge over MP3tag.

_Jimlad_ · 15 Jun 2008 at 22:38

cheers guys gonna download and play around with them

Meatball · 15 Jun 2008 at 23:10

Album case + album booklet = writing in all the details yourself = winrar

All your tracks are guaranteed to be tagged properly and standard (composer layout eg. E.Simmons, F.Buxton Vs. simmons/buxton.) Call me anal but it's just nice doing it all yourself. Takes time but looks great once you've finished

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Neolink · 16 Jun 2008 at 00:20

Musicbrainz and Mediamonkey seem to give me the best results

sajtion · 16 Jun 2008 at 00:36

Dr.Tag Plus!

LeperousDust · 16 Jun 2008 at 03:16

Meatball said:
Album case + album booklet = writing in all the details yourself = winrar

All your tracks are guaranteed to be tagged properly and standard (composer layout eg. E.Simmons, F.Buxton Vs. simmons/buxton.) Call me anal but it's just nice doing it all yourself. Takes time but looks great once you've finished .

Not used MusicBrainz then? It very rarely goes "wrong".

Neolink said:
Musicbrainz and Mediamonkey seem to give me the best results

This man knows where its at, and MediaMonkey too, without doubt one of the most powerful combinations on the market

martin9887 · 16 Jun 2008 at 08:56

Musicbrainz didn't do anything for me, it just froze up. I prefer to do it myself with tag tools.

LeperousDust · 16 Jun 2008 at 12:34

How can you "prefer" to waste time writing dull things? MusizBrainz shouldn't freeze up at all, its mature product now, the UI just a little crazy (so i can understand if you dont know how to use it) because they're concentrating on that for their next release...

james.miller · 16 Jun 2008 at 12:38

martin9887 said:
Musicbrainz didn't do anything for me, it just froze up. I prefer to do it myself with tag tools.

yep. i tried it, froze on me as well. 2 hours it spent scanning my collection and then froze up, having done nothing.

bit of a waste of time really lol

martin9887 · 16 Jun 2008 at 12:58

james.miller said:
yep. i tried it, froze on me as well. 2 hours it spent scanning my collection and then froze up, having done nothing.

bit of a waste of time really lol

Exactly the same problem I had, I thought I'd leave it for a couple of hours, but it didn't do anything.

It doesn't take long doing the tags myself either.

Simian · 16 Jun 2008 at 13:31

I use Audioshell... Very easy to use (right click an mp3 and its there just like the file properties)..

LeperousDust · 16 Jun 2008 at 13:55

No idea what's happening there guys, i've done 12k tracks with MusicBrainz, and although i had a few problems with the earlier releases (crashing) i've not run into anything recently. Although to be fair, i never tried scanning all 12k at once, i do them in chunks, so i can keep track of what i'm doing. Maybe 1-2k at a time.