# Help!  My ID3 tags got hosed!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-id3-tags-got-hosed/148111>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 12, 2003, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-id3-tags-got-hosed/148111 "2003-01-12T07:27:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2003, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-id3-tags-got-hosed/148111/1 "2003-01-12T07:27:55Z")

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Anyone know of some good, free (naturally) software that will automatically populate my MP3’s ID3 tags? I’m tired of seeing “Unknown - Unknown” when I play them. I’m not really particular. Even if it just copied the file name in, that’d work.

I think there was a thread on this very subject not long ago, but, of course, you can’t search for “id3”.

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**Author:** ![scablet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@scablet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scablet)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2003, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-id3-tags-got-hosed/148111/2 "2003-01-12T07:53:21Z")

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[mp3 tag studio](http://www.magnusbrading.com/mp3ts/) is Good Stuff.

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**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2003, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-id3-tags-got-hosed/148111/3 "2003-01-12T13:31:34Z")

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It better be. The guy has only fixed a couple hundred bugs in his program. How many more are left in it?

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**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2003, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-id3-tags-got-hosed/148111/4 "2003-01-13T13:57:02Z")

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I have a program called “Auto Tagga” which will redo tags based on the filename. Since I name my mp3s with Artist - Title, it will search them and redo them. It’s very nifty.