Sorry for the late reply on this. I actually use a combination of a few
different programs for MP3 tagging:
MP3 Tag Studio 3.5
http://www.magnusbrading.com/mp3ts/
MP3tag (already mentioned)
http://www.mp3tag.de/
File Renamer Basic
http://sherrodcomputers.com/products_filerenamer_download.cfm
MP3 Tag Studio is great if your file names are already mostly complete and
correct. It will extract the data (artist, track name, track number, album
name) from the file name and put it into the ID3 tags. And it doesn't
matter what format the file names are in as long as they're consistent
across an entire album. It can also do lots of other advanced data
manipulation of ID3 tags and file names.
If the file names are just slightly off, then I'll use File Renamer Basic to
fix the file names and then run MP3 Tag Studio. And meanwhile, I use MP3tag
to view my progress and see which ID3 tags are finished and which still need
fixing. It's much easier to get an overview of your progress with this
program than with MP3 Tag Studio.
I also tried MusicBrainz, but had some issues with it. Maybe I need to mess
with it again.
Good luck,
Todd
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Irene McC [mailto:substar@iafrica.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 12:32 PM
> To: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: Re: [idm] MP3 tagging
>
>
> Thanks all for your help : once again the IDM-list has come
> through for me in a big way; I do appreciate this!
>
> I've gone with this one (Joao's):
>
> > http://www.mp3tag.de/
>
> It was one of the first recommendations to respond, and I downloaded
> and installed it and it's working perfectly, so that's
> sorted. I will keep the recommendations from the other mails
> for 'just in case' backups if this one goes schizo!
>
> Kurt : I also downloaded this one:
>
> > www.id3-tagit.de/
>
> But it wants to have some other Microsoft product installed
> before it runs and one has to go fetch that from some other
> site... it all seemed to get rather complicated ;-)
>
> As for all the iTunes recommends : thanks, but I'm unable to
> spend much time logged on (our greedy telephone company charge
> by the second and with a 56k modem that mounts up and up!) so
> anything requiring web interaction and downloading is pretty
> much out of the picture.
>
> Again : thank you all
>
> I
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>
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