[alice_f]

What tagging software do you use and what do you like about it, or do you use the whole right click in win explorer?

My preferred method until I reinstalled windows was right clicking and doing the whole properties->summary-> advanced button thing.

Sadly despite my folders being set as music folders in the customise bit.

I no longer get the full range of music appropriate options, nor does it see the tags that are already there any more.

I now get this
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z...ice_f2nd/2.jpg

and this
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z...ice_f2nd/1.jpg



Instead of what I should get which is this
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z...thegenre03.jpg



So what do you use and why?

[aom3]

Is this for songs you have downloaded from allofmp3 or from another source?

I use mediamonkey to manage my music collection and does it really well, i will check for you if they offer a 'renaming track' option

[Dave C]

Originally Posted by alice_f

What tagging software do you use and what do you like about it, or do you use the whole right click in win explorer?

My preferred method until I reinstalled windows was right clicking and doing the whole properties->summary-> advanced button thing.

Sadly despite my folders being set as music folders in the customise bit.

I no longer get the full range of music appropriate options, nor does it see the tags that are already there any more.

I now get this
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z...ice_f2nd/2.jpg

and this
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z...ice_f2nd/1.jpg



Instead of what I should get which is this
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z...thegenre03.jpg



So what do you use and why?

Sorry to be a bit stupid here, but what does tagging software do? When I download something (from allofmp3 / legalsounds / e-music / etc) I just click and drag what I get into i-tunes, usually give it a genre (allofmp3 never does this for some reason?) and then cut and past the album cover (I'm a bit of a geek like that, hate having an album on me i-pod without the accompanying picture). What would tagging software do in addition to this? This is an honest question; one should never forget there are people on this site who know bugger all about computers & the software which runs them. I am the kind of person who just accepts what the computer gives me, without realising that there could be a much better & quicker way of doing things (if only I knew). Hope this makes sense,
Cheers,
Dave C

[henry66]

hey, give mp3tag a try, and then tell me what you think. personally, i think it is amazing, and
has become invaluable for me.

greets - henry

[kswartz]

My favorite is the Windows Explorer extension called mp3ext at www.mutschler.de/mp3ext/. Because it's integrated with Explorer, it's an extremely easy and versatile UI. Has many accessible fields, even cover art. Only thing it's missing is access to the bpm tag, but that's no biggie, since the program I use to compute that just populates it automatically.

mp3tag is also a great standalone program with access to just about every ID3v2 tag defined. I've only used it a couple of times, as mp3ext does just about everything for me.

For cover art, I'm using iTunes Art Importer and iTunes combined, which gets the job done a little faster than mp3ext by itself, since iTunes AI actually fetches the artwork automatically.

[timmyp]

I've found ID3-TagIT 3 to be an invaluable tool for organizing those media files that aren't pretagged & organized from someplace like allofmp3/mp3sparks/MM. It can be a bit daunting at first, but proves to be very powerful and easy to use if you're willing to spend ~30 minutes picking up its ins & outs.

It can pull track information (artist, genre, album, etc.) from freedb.org, rename files based on ID3 information, fill in missing ID3 information based on file/folder names and so much more.

Development of this utility has, unfortunately, stopped. However, with the latest version available, I've never had a problem.

I wholeheartedly recommend it to everyone...(and no, I have no stake in its usage )

Its available here.

[Kalvin Kleenex]

Originally Posted by timmyp

I've found ID3-TagIT 3 to be an invaluable tool for organizing those media files that don't pretagged & organized from someplace like allofmp3/mp3sparks/MM. It can be a bit daunting at first, but proves to be very powerful and easy to use if you're willing to spend ~30 minutes picking up its ins & outs.

It can pull track information (artist, genre, album, etc.) from freedb.org, rename files based on ID3 information, fill in missing ID3 information based on file/folder names and so much more.

Development of this utility has, unfortunately, stopped. However, with the latest version available, I've never had a problem.

I wholeheartedly recommend it to everyone...(and no, I have no stake in its usage )

Its available here.

I totally agree with Timmyp. This is a very powerful utility. I recommend it.

Kalvin