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mp3 info

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 5:19 pm
by shiznatix
OK so I get my laptop back and somehow it is working (the guy didnt touch it for months). Now I have recently got a iPod and I wanna put my music on it. The only problem is that I have always used the file name itself to sort my music on winamp but on your iPod it changes the filename completly and just uses the ID3 tag.

Is there a program that will auto update your ID3 tag with the proper band name and song title from the file name so I dont have to go through about 1000 songs manually?

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 5:22 pm
by Burrito
you could use getID3 and check if the song has id3 tags already...if not, you could explode the filename by '-' (assuming your songs are all 'coded' that way), then dump the artist and track name into the id3 tags automatically...

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 5:52 pm
by Weirdan
TagScanner is what I use.

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 6:22 pm
by josh
Zortam Mp3 Media Studio lets me specify the format of the filenames I want using different templates

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%1 = track number
%2 = track name
%3 = album
%4 = artist

artist name/album name/01 - name.mp3
%4/%3/%1 - %2.mp3

Something like that for example


Also check out http://musicbrainz.org/ for fixing id3 tags

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 5:42 am
by Chris Corbyn
There's loads of tools to tag and rename tiles. One of which being Tag&Rename :P

EDIT | I meant files... OK? :P

Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 3:45 am
by shiznatix
Ok worked well with the tags but almost none of my songs has a album specified and iTunes consideres it a seperate song if the album is set for 1 of them and not the other. Is there somthing that will search some website and automatically get the album the song is from and put that in? That may be asking a lot but it would be fantastic.

Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 4:07 am
by Weirdan
TagScanner does that (via CDDB)

Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:17 am
by shiznatix
yes so the tagscanner website says it can but, seriously, how? there is no option for it anywhere.

Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:10 am
by Burrito
check out http://www.freedb.org too if you wanna go with my solution :P

Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:33 am
by Weirdan
shiznatix wrote:yes so the tagscanner website says it can but, seriously, how? there is no option for it anywhere.
'Tag processor' tab, choose the 'Get album info from freedb' option from the Task select-box.

Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 8:14 am
by shiznatix
Wow sorry for that. I looked and looked on the program and thought i left no stone unturned but obviously i overlooked a large select box. Thanks I will give this a try as soon as I get to a internet connection that my laptop can connect to.

Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 1:36 pm
by shiznatix
tried everything, the mp3tag program AND tagscanner. both return incredibly stupid results

Bad Religion - I want to conquer the world
(found album): Louden Wainwright III / Suddenly It's Christmas (UK Promo Single) 01 .Suddenly It's Christmas

I mean seriously, that could not be more wrong. any help?

Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 1:49 pm
by josh
jshpro2 wrote:

Also check out http://musicbrainz.org/ for fixing id3 tags
Did you try my suggestion yet?