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On May 8, 2005, at 10:21 AM, Irene McC wrote:

quoted 1 line What is a good (free) MP3 tagging app?

> What is a good (free) MP3 tagging app?

I use iTunes. ...sorry, somebody had to, I figured it may as well be me this time. ;-) -Adam --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

Adam Piontek wrote:

quoted 16 lines On May 8, 2005, at 10:21 AM, Irene McC wrote:

> On May 8, 2005, at 10:21 AM, Irene McC wrote: > >> What is a good (free) MP3 tagging app? > > > I use iTunes. > > > > ...sorry, somebody had to, I figured it may as well be me this time. > > ;-) > > -Adam > >

I use MusicBrainz, which is a GPL tagging package. It makes a fingerprint of your mp3s and will access a community run database to determine the track name. It will then sort it for you by Artist->Album->Track # - Track Name , or however you want it to sort. It will fill out all the ID3 tag information w/ appropriate information, even w/ the genre. This is great if all your mp3s are 128kbps or higher, as lower bitrates tend to give false positives and can lead to misidentified tracks. It will provide a percentage of accuracy in the match, so when the percentage match is less than 75% (or any amount you pick) it will request that you identify the track manually. There is a beta Linux client available too, but I can't remember the name of it at this moment. The linux iTunes clone amaroK has built in support for MusicBrainz tagged tracks and will show the MusicBrainz icon to show the track was tagged by MusicBrainz. This is the piece of software I had waited years to be released, since it is especially good at identifying tracks that have corrupted track names and information. http://www.musicbrainz.org/ --Nick/afxgrin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

I used to use Tag & Rename, as it used CDDB and All Music Guide to get it's results. The AMG method seems to have broken down over time (used a screen scrape to get the info after you browsed for the album on their site thru the program), but the CDDB integration is pretty damn good. It also sports the ability to rename files from ID3 tags or vice versa, and supports created folders, etc. Tag&Rename: http://www.softpointer.com/ Of course now I just use iTunes. - xnlb On 5/8/05, Nicholas Bolibruch <nboli@cogeco.ca> wrote:

quoted 47 lines Adam Piontek wrote:

> > Adam Piontek wrote: > > > On May 8, 2005, at 10:21 AM, Irene McC wrote: > > > >> What is a good (free) MP3 tagging app? > > > > > > I use iTunes. > > > > > > > > ...sorry, somebody had to, I figured it may as well be me this time. > > > > ;-) > > > > -Adam > > > > > I use MusicBrainz, which is a GPL tagging package. It makes a > fingerprint of your mp3s and will access a community run database to > determine the track name. It will then sort it for you by > Artist->Album->Track # - Track Name , or however you want it to sort. > It will fill out all the ID3 tag information w/ appropriate information, > even w/ the genre. This is great if all your mp3s are 128kbps or > higher, as lower bitrates tend to give false positives and can lead to > misidentified tracks. It will provide a percentage of accuracy in the > match, so when the percentage match is less than 75% (or any amount you > pick) it will request that you identify the track manually. > > There is a beta Linux client available too, but I can't remember the > name of it at this moment. The linux iTunes clone amaroK has built in > support for MusicBrainz tagged tracks and will show the MusicBrainz icon > to show the track was tagged by MusicBrainz. This is the piece of > software I had waited years to be released, since it is especially good > at identifying tracks that have corrupted track names and information. > > http://www.musicbrainz.org/ > > --Nick/afxgrin > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org > For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org > >

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Irene McC wrote:

quoted 1 line What is a good (free) MP3 tagging app?

> What is a good (free) MP3 tagging app?

MP3Tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/

quoted 4 lines I've been using MP3 Tagger - but today I encoded bought CD's using EAC

> I've been using MP3 Tagger - but today I encoded bought CD's using EAC > & LAME and then tried to tag them using MP3 tagger, and I'm getting an > error code that says "Type Mismatch". What does this mean and how do > I get around it?

I have no idea - it's probably an application specific error message, and I've never used that program.

quoted 2 lines I can manually enter the info on each individual track in WinAmp, but

> I can manually enter the info on each individual track in WinAmp, but > obviously that's laborious.

Eeek! :)

quoted 1 line Thanks for any help

> Thanks for any help

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I use musicbrainz. It checks the correctness of tags against a database, which I've had to add a good amount to (anyone can add info to the database, and then its voted on). Once the tags are verified you can have the program sort the files into folders set up to your liking and rename the files so everything's uniform. I have mine sorted into \artist name\album title [year]\track. title \va\album title [year]\artist name - track - title There's a separate setting for various artist albums. It's a huge help, but you have to be careful about doing a huge batch at once since it can make mistakes. I read on their site that their database entries are going to be more thorough. musicbrainz.org ak

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):

quoted 1 line http://www.mp3tag.

> 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:

quoted 1 line www.id3-tagit.de/

> 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 * --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

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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