Jeremy Posted August 27, 2007 Share Posted August 27, 2007 (edited) Today I tried two programs for finding id tags for my songs and somehow, in my attempt to label one song, labeled many other by that name. Now every tagger program I try thinks 1/4 of my music collection is by the same artist.Is there any other information in a song that can be used to correctly get the tags and rename the songs in the following format:Artist - Album - Song # - Song TitleI've tried MP3 Tagger and Tag&Rename. Edited August 27, 2007 by Jeremy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doggie Posted August 27, 2007 Share Posted August 27, 2007 Curious to know why. If the music is legit then the tags would not required to be retagged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted August 27, 2007 Author Share Posted August 27, 2007 (edited) Then again, I live in Canada and not the US. If I rip music from an original CD and load it into Winamp, it is labeled something like "Various Artist - Unknown Title". Edited August 27, 2007 by Jeremy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted August 27, 2007 Share Posted August 27, 2007 Curious to know why. If the music is legit then the tags would not required to be retagged.Not all programs put automatically tags to an MP3, older rippers that I used didn’t check on the web for a database. It doesn’t matter if you have legal issued MP3s or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcarle Posted August 27, 2007 Share Posted August 27, 2007 ID3 tags are not a obligatory component of legally purchased MP3s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigeratiPrime Posted August 27, 2007 Share Posted August 27, 2007 I have a lot of cd's that do not contain any information on them and have to add the info myself. I am not sure exactly what you are trying to do though Jeremy, Tag&Rename can get information from the tags and rename the file(s) from that. Just click on the 'Rename Files' tab and for file name mask use%1 - %3 - %6 - %2 which will give you <Artist> - <Album> - <Track #> - <Title>.mp3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted August 28, 2007 Author Share Posted August 28, 2007 That's sort of the problem. I accidentally renamed a lot of the tags so if I use that method to change the filenames, I'll be twice as screwed. I was wondering if there was another method of identifying the mp3 on an online server to fix the tags and then rename the filenames afterwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zxian Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 The problem with doing that is that encoders change, and they'd actually have to "listen" to the song to identify it. Probably something that's pretty tricky to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uid0 Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 They use the length of the tracks to identify them.I've had mp3bookhelper recommended before, although I've not tried it recently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigeratiPrime Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 are your music albums in seperate folders or are all the files in the same folder? Tag&Rename has a 'Get Album Titles from Freedb' which uses the DiscID even if there are no other tags. Another program you can try is 'Abander TagControl' it's good at doing multiple albums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tain Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 MusicIP Mixer analyzes songs for their content and then compares that data to an online database. The tags can then be adjusted accordingly. It takes some time to process, but is a great application.http://musicip.com/mixer/index.jsp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zxian Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 Hehe... I stand corrected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tain Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 No, you're right. It is a tricky thing to do. This is one of only a couple apps that can do it. I did see another one or two, but I think they were payware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tain Posted August 30, 2007 Share Posted August 30, 2007 Here's another project along the same lines: http://blog.last.fm/2007/08/29/audio-finge...-clean-metadata Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmX.Memnoch Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 I believe that MP3 Tag Tools will do what you're looking for. It can set the tag based on file name criteria. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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