Digital music forum: Organizing MP3's

Try...

MP3 RENAMER

At www.google.com

No one can guess what you want exactly so you may have to try a few.

Bob

That must have taken a long time to rip 6 thousand tracks.

I use CDEX and it does this "proper" for me. How could the names be wrong?

Bob

Hi Sean....wow...I have over 19,000 songs and I've tagged each and every one of them through winamp...it's free, easy to use, and it does exactly what I want it to...I'm also really skittish about programs that hhmm DO things for me...I'm an Australian girl and I like to add year of release and album if I or others know it...I surely don't trust so called expert programs to do it for me...and the advantage of tagging stuff yourself is that YOU know what you have, not what a program TELLS you that you have, or worse, what you DID have once safe Chrissy to you all...take care..Jacqui from Aus

I like TagScanner. It is free for personal use.

http://www.download.com/TagScanner/3000-2141_4-10332317.html?tag=lst-0-1

It can generate ID3 Tags from file names, or rename file names based on ID3 tags. You can also edit one tag at a time. Because I am careful about making sure the ID3 Tag info is correct in my ripper (Easy CD-DA Extractor) before I rip, I don't need it much for that. But after I record my old LP's or cassettes to WAV's, split them into individual files for each song, edit them (Audacity) and convert to mp3 (Easy CD-DA), I use this program to write tags.
My folder/file names look like this. Artist-Album/01-track_name.mp3. In the "Tag Processor" module I set the "delimiter" to "-", the track # to "%1", the title to "%2". Then I fill in the Artist, Year, etc... fields and generate a preview of what each tag will look like. On compilation discs my file names look like "Album/01-track_name-artist.mp3". By adding "%3" to the Artist field, each tag correctly lists the artist for that track. If the previews look OK, I generate the Tags.

I then use the "Tag Editor" module to manually check each tag and make any changes if needed. By checking the "ID3v1 + ID3v2" box, when I hit "Save", an ID3v1 tag is saved as well, even if there were no changes made to the ID3v2 Tag I previously generated, and the box advances to the next track on the list. So I can very quickly manually check/edit tags this way.