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- pentium42006, on 11/21/2008, -0/+17A personal favorite of mine is Mp3tag found at http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
It work under both Windows and Linux (with wine).- chokeaduck, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3Yeah, to be fair to get tags right, you need to do them yourself. This is a great utility, followed by Media Monkey.
- Junior612, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2Second on MM. Love the program and chocked full of utilities.
- elvenseven, on 11/21/2008, -1/+2Nothing beats it.
- LiquidLeopard, on 11/21/2008, -1/+2I prefer a program called Zortam, even though you have to pay...it's my favorite just because of how accurate it is.
http://www.zortam.com/ - nmnnotmyname, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3FLACs can be tagged?
I didn't know that a few months ago, now i have something to do in my spare time. - StyngerSmash, on 11/21/2008, -5/+2Actually, mp3tag has a native Windows version. I'm using it now.
- antzology, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3That's what he said.
- mem2, on 11/21/2008, -0/+4A personal Favorite of mine is namefix.pl :P
Sure I happen to be the author but it one of the original Batch File renamers with mp3 tag support.
Feature requests are always welcome.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/namefix/ - 1n4007, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2Musicbrainz Picard, Windows and Linux. Can detect and tag titles without even knowing their names!
- chokeaduck, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3Yeah, to be fair to get tags right, you need to do them yourself. This is a great utility, followed by Media Monkey.
- raisedinhell, on 11/21/2008, -1/+5I manually went thru and tagged all of my music (925 albums) using WMPs sweet ass auto tagging... makes it really easy, but it still took me weeks. Prior to that all of my music was untagged and instead sorted by filenames (Artist - album - track - title)
Lamest thing I've ever done, but so so worth it. Winamp 5 media library ftw.- lava, on 11/21/2008, -0/+4One day I just said "***** it" and let iTunes organize it. It did a really good job. But now that I ***** hate iTunes, I'm regretting that decision.
- mynameistux, on 11/21/2008, -0/+7don't you love being locked into that. Also, god forbid one day you want to get a non ipod mp3 player.
itunes would kill your family before it gave your music back. - ShyGuy91284, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2If it's due to AAC-protected stuff, sue. And I'm not kidding. DRM should not limit platform usage.
- mynameistux, on 11/21/2008, -0/+7don't you love being locked into that. Also, god forbid one day you want to get a non ipod mp3 player.
- bat-21, on 11/21/2008, -0/+4Foobar:
Select files > right click > Masstagger > edit tags > Add > Guess values from filename > %Artist% %album% %track% %title%- JGent, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3You can also use the Get Tags From Free-DB option, where it attempts to match track lengths etc etc to determine the album. Then when it finds some matches it shows you the albums it believes match your selection. You can preview them etc and then choose to apply the tags if they seem correct tags. (CAN PEOPLE STOP ADDING ALBUMS all in caps or lowercase, it looks really crappy......!!!). Its rare I have to do this anyway as I am usually online when I create my mp3 backups.
I then use foobars Move by file names thing, and organize them something like Artist/album/artist - album - track-number - title
This then ensures all my music is sorted alphabetically on my disk as well
- JGent, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3You can also use the Get Tags From Free-DB option, where it attempts to match track lengths etc etc to determine the album. Then when it finds some matches it shows you the albums it believes match your selection. You can preview them etc and then choose to apply the tags if they seem correct tags. (CAN PEOPLE STOP ADDING ALBUMS all in caps or lowercase, it looks really crappy......!!!). Its rare I have to do this anyway as I am usually online when I create my mp3 backups.
- lava, on 11/21/2008, -0/+4One day I just said "***** it" and let iTunes organize it. It did a really good job. But now that I ***** hate iTunes, I'm regretting that decision.
- kentifer, on 11/21/2008, -1/+6One time I was playing with Amarok, and i went to go edit a file, but suddenly my entire play list of 200 songs were all being changed to one song!
Luckily I fixed it with another mp3 tag editor that used the file names.- Aurabolt, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3Your "entire playlist" is only 200 songs?
- PhailQuail, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3Perhaps you shouldn't CTRL-A the playlist before editing.
- Chickenlip, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3pebkac
- mattailes, on 11/21/2008, -1/+13Just get MusicBrainz. They have versions for all OSs and it does it all automatically. 95% of your music will find a match in their DB right away.
- samtihen, on 11/21/2008, -1/+4Agreed. MusicBrainz Picard is an application that allows you to tag your music based on a concept commonly known as audio fingerprinting. Using this method, it can take a random mp3 file with a random file name and no tags and determine the correct tags based on its acoustic characteristics. Unlike CDDB methods, it does not require the song to be part of an album - each song can be tagged individually. It is oddly accurate when using this method, so you rarely have to mess with it. One of the posters above notes that it took him "weeks" to tag 925 albums. Using MusizBrainz this process would likely take hours or possibly days.
- nmnnotmyname, on 11/21/2008, -1/+2Probably doesn't help if you have obscure *****, but I'd guess you ought to just tag yourself at that point.
- muszek, on 11/21/2008, -1/+2Ditto. Picard is great. It takes less than a minute to load, identify, tag and rename files.
@nmnnotmyname: I have 724 tagged albums according to Rhythmbox. I don't think I've had problems with more than 10 albums (which were either classical music or some garage bands nobody heard of).
I used EasyTag before and it was a pain - took much more time to do anything (haven't touched it in ~2 years, maybe something has changed). - JGent, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2Ill have a look at this program when I get home :)
- muszek, on 11/21/2008, -1/+2Ditto. Picard is great. It takes less than a minute to load, identify, tag and rename files.
- Chickenlip, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2useless for classical music
- Sokkratez, on 11/21/2008, -0/+6Very happy with MediaMonkey.
- thegreat59, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3MediaMonkey is the best music program for serious music collectors. It makes tagging and organizing your music so easy and fast.
- IVIrMP3, on 11/21/2008, -0/+4I've always used TagScan. Does iTunes m4a
http://xdev.narod.ru/en/tagscan.htm- TCKC2C, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3It's also not for Linux, unless there's a Linux version I overlooked.
In which case show me now, TagScanner was my Windows tagger of choice.- DanQuist, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2Tag Scan is seriously the best ID3 tag editor out there, it does EVERYTHING. really nice UI, and easy to use. I'm a mobile DJ with over 80,000 songs and I use it all the freaking time
- TCKC2C, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3It's also not for Linux, unless there's a Linux version I overlooked.
- L0NER, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2Does id3 have a 'disk number'?
I listen to a lot of audiobooks that have up to ten disks, but i cant find any editor that will let me tag a disk number.
This is one thing that iTunes actually excels in. (and I hate Itunes)- PhailQuail, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3I have yet to see a tag editor that doesn't support the disk number tag, but I have seen a few that don't have the "maximum disks in this set" tag though, but I don't see many players that use that.
Steer clear of Microsoft and Apple and you will be fine.- bcm79, on 11/24/2008, -0/+1iTunes has "Disc x of y" to label maximum discs in this set.
- 2uantuM, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2Mediamonkey.
- flinkebernt, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2Easytag
- PhailQuail, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3I have yet to see a tag editor that doesn't support the disk number tag, but I have seen a few that don't have the "maximum disks in this set" tag though, but I don't see many players that use that.
- mockupscaledown, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2Anyone know of a decent command-line tag editor/reader?
- djek, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1eyeD3
http://eyed3.nicfit.net/ - mem2, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2http://sourceforge.net/projects/namefix/
- KibibyteBrain, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2I'm not sure the command line is an ideal environment for tagging. Especially because tags can include the album art itself. Its great for reading back tags and batch processing the info though.
- PhailQuail, on 11/21/2008, -1/+3Just use a jpg2ascii converter.
Seriously, people like having a command-line version so that they can do powerful batch operations, such as only removing a tag from files that contain a specific word in their filename.
- PhailQuail, on 11/21/2008, -1/+3Just use a jpg2ascii converter.
- boobsbr, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3id3v2
available on Ubuntu's repositories
- djek, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1eyeD3
- AshsToAshs, on 11/21/2008, -8/+3Editing my ID3 tags? No way! What a crazy new idea!
What is this? 1999?- nmnnotmyname, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3Actually it's an article for specific softwares that make the process easier under Linux. There are plenty of ways to do this on any OS, but seeing as it's Linux.com, you should probably be able to guess that this article is about the ways to do it under Linux.
Plus despite the fact that ID3v1 has been around since 1996 a lot of people still don't have proper or complete tags.
...Douchebag. - mem2, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2namefix.pl has supported id3 tag renaming on linux cmd line since 2000........
- nmnnotmyname, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3Actually it's an article for specific softwares that make the process easier under Linux. There are plenty of ways to do this on any OS, but seeing as it's Linux.com, you should probably be able to guess that this article is about the ways to do it under Linux.
- Focher, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2Jaikoz. Ugly, Java-based, and does absolutely everything. Musicbrainz / MusicIP integration for acoustic fingerprinting and tagging of MP3 and M4A files. So powerful, you even will accept the interface. Throw thousands of tracks at it and prepare to be amazed. Has missing track reports for albums, duplicate checking reports, etc. http://www.jaikoz.com/
- djabad87, on 11/21/2008, -1/+1
- ArthurSucks, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3Using iTunes on Linux is horrible.
- PhailQuail, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3Well, mainly because it sucks and gives an opportunity for Apple to sell you stuff. Also, Safari anyone?
- TimOgg, on 11/21/2008, -0/+5FooBar2000 FTW
- fuzzy889, on 11/21/2008, -1/+4Editing the ID3 tags would ***** up the scene release, so ***** that.
- jannefoo, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2sc3n3 kiddos can ***** themselves
- fuzzy889, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2I agree completely. Sadly I need to keep my crap scene or I won't be allowed in the good hubs/trackers. Or it's back to ***** piratebay.
- jannefoo, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2sc3n3 kiddos can ***** themselves
- theonewho, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2My favorite is kid3. They have versions for linux, windows, and mac os x (via fink). It takes a little getting used to but once you do it's very useful.
- ace214, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2In my opinion, they highly underrated Ex Falso. I love it. Easy tag adds ID3s to my vorbis files...
- emptymind, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2I have found Tag Tool to be the most intuitive to use.
http://pwp.netcabo.pt/paol/tagtool/ - psionides, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1Does anyone know such (free, as in beer) software for Mac?
- Chickenlip, on 11/21/2008, -1/+2I pity you ... I really am so very sorry ...
- YourNameHere1, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1Thunar in xfce4 has this as one of its default options using the "media-tags" plugin.
But seriously, it's a bitch to have to change every single song by hand, just to get them to be listed in the proper order.
I've found that most every Linux music player library will screw certain albums up..... exaile and banshee seem to do it the worst.
I found that VLC does not do this at all.
Every album is listed in perfect order, the search feature works good, and VLC does not split into an album into two or three separate albums if it has another artist's name in the media tag. (like: artist featuring guest artist)
So, I use both the new banshee and VLC.- YourNameHere1, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1..... and VLC does not split an album into two or three separate albums.....
/typo
- YourNameHere1, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1..... and VLC does not split an album into two or three separate albums.....
- Killerah, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2Foobar2000 is my favorite, it's extremely powerful. The closest thing to fb2k I've found on linux is EasyTAG which is kind of confusing at first but you get used to it.
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