I have tons of mp3s with all sorts of different formats in their information fields and I’d like to standardize them. Can anyone suggest a good free application where I can edit fields for multiple files at once? Specifically I want to be able to open all songs on an album and change all of their info at once. I’ll go crazy if I have to do each song one by one in Winamp!!
Thanks in advance!
I personally use tag and rename. It works well for editing the tags on mp3s.
Mp3tag and Mp3 Tag Tools are both free and easy to use. I used to use both of them, but most of my collection is now tagged so I rarely have to do batch jobs.
But if you’re already using Winamp to tag them, you don’t have to tag them one at a time, you can do them as a batch. Highlight the songs you want to tag in the playlist editor, right click - send to - auto tag. Of course, that’s assuming you just want to auto tag them.
If you want to replace words, etc., the other 2 programs are your better bets.
I’m at work so I can’t try these at the moment, but they look like exactly what I had in mind. I may give the auto tag option a shot in Winamp.
Thanks for the suggestions!
Look at the free products reviewed here. Any one of them will do the job.
That looks like a great resource too, thanks! I’m leaning toward something that is recommended by someone here so I avoid the pitfalls of freeware (I’m always worried about mal ware). This page seems pretty trustworthy, though.
I’ve always really liked EasyTag, in case you happen to be using a Unix-like platform such as Linux or Mac OS.
Oh, hang on, looks like there might be Windows packages as well: easytag-2.1.exe or easytag-2.1.6-beta1-setup.exe
Anyway, it’s good, free (open source) software, so give it a shot.
I have used “The Godfather” mp3 editor. Seems to work reasonably well for batch processing, though I would not be surprised to find a better tag editor existed. Overall grade: B+
(and it’s not malware.)
In Windows, you can select all the files you want to change, then select properties -> Summary, and make sure you’re in the advanced view. A lot of the data can be edited for all the files at once. Change what you want, and click OK. It’s not a substitute for a real program, but if it does what you need, it’s pretty simple.
Thanks everybody, I’ll be trying these out. I just gave auto tag in Winamp a shot and it’s pretty great…no typing!
I do think I’ll want something more versatile, so tonight’s a night for test drives!
Foobar has a good editor and is a very nice music player regardless. Very anti-bloat and customizable if you like that sort of thing.