MP3 Tagger for getting album artwork

dmx07 · 7 Apr 2009 at 10:02

Ive found a bunch of these apps online, some free, some not and wondered if anyone here has used any. I recently got a G1 Android phone and want to get the album artwork to show so I need to edit the ID3 tags..

Any ideas?

jbloggs · 7 Apr 2009 at 15:16

Try MP3Tag

MarcLister · 7 Apr 2009 at 16:28

Media Monkey is pretty good at this for me. I was trying to use it to replace Winamp but I can't.

Winamp however is shoddy with album art I've found. So I use Winamp to play stuff but Media Monkey to sort album art out for me.

nade · 7 Apr 2009 at 19:08

I'm gonna recommend another different program: Tagscan. I've been using it for ages and found it works great for adding album art.

doggo · 7 Apr 2009 at 19:46

MarcLister said:
Media Monkey is pretty good at this for me. I was trying to use it to replace Winamp but I can't. Winamp however is shoddy with album art I've found. So I use Winamp to play stuff but Media Monkey to sort album art out for me.

I'd second that, Media Monkey gets my vote. I've used it to tag all my music, FLAC and MP3, well worth it IMHO.

malef!c · 7 Apr 2009 at 19:47

Never hear dof tagscan - looks quite good.
Normally use Tag&Rename for everything but its a bit long winded!

dmx07 · 7 Apr 2009 at 20:58

cheers, will look into those. There is certainly no shortage of apps around!

archer_dan · 7 Apr 2009 at 22:30

+1 for MediaMonkey, did wonders for my messy music collection.

SourChipmunk · 8 Apr 2009 at 03:56

I couldn't get along with MediaMonkey, but perhaps I just didn't spend enough time with it. I'll give TagScan a shot. Thanks for the link.

On the same note, is there a good app for sorting files into folders? I have a few thousand song titles that I ripped from my Time/Life collection and they all appear in "Various Artists", then with the album name. I would like to have them sorted into folders for each artist, then album. What app can read the tag and do this (besides iTunes)?

hp7909 · 8 Apr 2009 at 04:41

Raist said:
I would like to have them sorted into folders for each artist, then album. What app can read the tag and do this (besides iTunes)?

jbloggs said:
Try MP3Tag

+1

Furton · 8 Apr 2009 at 10:01

Picard MusicBrainz for the win

http://musicbrainz.org/doc/PicardTagger

GWillow · 8 Apr 2009 at 13:22

Raist said:
On the same note, is there a good app for sorting files into folders? I have a few thousand song titles that I ripped from my Time/Life collection and they all appear in "Various Artists", then with the album name. I would like to have them sorted into folders for each artist, then album. What app can read the tag and do this (besides iTunes)?

I think TagScanner can handle that for you.

lofz · 8 Apr 2009 at 13:40

Media Monkey gets my vote, I have over 120gb of music now in various formats and I managed to tag most of it through MM. For the odd ones I just Googled the album name and added it in manually

dmx07 · 10 Apr 2009 at 12:37

Ive played with media monkey over the past few days and I have been pretty impressed, its excellent at tagging and finding artwork and a pretty good player to boot! I think I'll be getting rid of iTunes!

Trixter · 10 Apr 2009 at 12:46

sajtion · 10 Apr 2009 at 13:42

smart mp3 renamer is very simple but effective

leoncc · 10 Apr 2009 at 16:43

I use the basic winamp feature to rename all my mp3s properly in the id3tag, it searched online for over 12000 tracks, did this last weekend and properly updated every single one with track/disc/title/artist/album/genre/composer/publiser etc in around 30minutes was really impressed.

i then use cdartdisplay to auto update the album art for a track if it doesn't have any, works really well

Silen · 28 Apr 2009 at 09:08

If you are looking for a good and quality software I can recommend mp3Tag Pro. I use it for a few weeks and it still looks good.