Mass ID3v2 Tagger Software

jPokalypse · Local time: Jun 26, 2006, 03:39 PM

Does anyone know of a good mp3 tag editor for those who have lots and lots of mp3s to tag? I know Abander TagControl is a very good piece of software except you have to pay for it. Are there freeware that are just as good? (in particular, one that can handle unicode filenames/tags?)

eriol33 · Local time: Jun 26, 2006, 10:49 PM

I use ultra mp3 tagger, but the UI is just too confusing, like you must name the track number one by one. I dont recommend you to use this one (plus it's shareware)

I usually use winamp media database to tag the id, quite useful, though I would like to know if there is alternative of freeware tagger.

Roph · Local time: Jun 26, 2006, 03:55 PM

http://massid3lib.sourceforge.net/

^_~ I love this program. The only thing I've noticed is this stange thing. While it's tagging the files, if you press the Ctrl key it'll crash. Weird and also harmless, so =D

Grawl · Local time: Jun 26, 2006, 06:43 PM

MP3/Tag Studio

http://www.magnusbrading.com/mp3ts/

Clean UI too.

Kaleb.G · Local time: Jun 26, 2006, 11:25 AM

I haven't used any of the others recommended by these guys, but I've been using The GodFather for a long while and I'm still satisfied with it. It has the most options I've seen in an MP3 tagger.

http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/

Duminas · Local time: Jun 26, 2006, 11:48 AM

Originally Posted by jPokalypse

Does anyone know of a good mp3 tag editor for those who have lots and lots of mp3s to tag? I know Abander TagControl is a very good piece of software except you have to pay for it. Are there freeware that are just as good? (in particular, one that can handle unicode filenames/tags?)

I personally use a masstagging script I wrote myself, but you probably aren't using Linux. :P

Anyways, for a Windows masstagger, I just used foobar2000's mass-tagging utility. A bit confusing if you've not played around with the program before, but it's very powerful once you get used to it. Any particular reason you want to use ID3, though? I've converted to APE tags recently, and found the whole "no region encoding" thing quite handy, since they seem to be just Unicode~

Only thing I can think of ID3 having over APE tags is player compatibility. Is there anything else, if anyone has any idea? Curious here.

WooshaQ · Local time: Jun 26, 2006, 11:47 PM

It seems that this MP3/Tag Studio has a neat file renaming function, do you happen' to have a serial for it Grawl?

Grawl · Local time: Jun 27, 2006, 01:42 AM

Doesn't need a serial.

BlueMikey · Local time: Jun 26, 2006, 07:08 PM

I like MP3/Tag Studio quite a bit. I am a stickler for having my files all named properly, so after I did that (with a mass renamer) I tagged all my files from the filenames and folders. You can also rename off tags, which was handy a few times. I was able to tagfix pretty much every single MP3 I have in a very short amount of time (periodically throughout one evening).

TheReverend · Local time: Jun 26, 2006, 11:17 PM

I use ID3-TagIt. Free-ware, can dial up freedb and you can choose tag sets to fit the files you have, can automatically organize MP3's to artist-album-etc folders. Just a great easy to use program...

Free.User · Local time: Jun 26, 2006, 09:32 PM

I've looked at all the other programs mentioned, but I must say Tag&Rename blows all competition out of the water (In the way of features, ease-of-use, GUI, etc). I have a cracked version if anyone wants it.

killmoms · Local time: Jun 27, 2006, 01:13 AM

And, for the few Mac users on the board who might want a mass-tagger, I find MediaRage is an excellent tag management tool for OS X—great for mass-tagging and other media-file duties. It's sort of an all-purpose toolbox, and it's great at what it does. Plus, it works on a bunch of file formats and supports Unicode. Shareware, though, and I have yet to find a serial for it. I'm sure one exists though.

Kaleb.G · 08:50 PM

If you're looking for something simple, I thought I'd come back in here to mention TagScanner. It has the cleanest UI of any MP3 tagger I've seen.

http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm

P.S. The site loads slowly, so you will need to be patient.

EDIT: I've mirrored the version I have HERE. But I'm not sure if it's the newest version out.

brndtsnFN · Local time: Jun 27, 2006, 07:52 PM

i'd say tag&rename is the best ive used

also though, if you are familiar with foobar2000, it has a nice built in masstagger

eprox1 · Local time: Jun 28, 2006, 11:27 AM

I also say Tag&Rename. Easy to use, most tagging options available out of every program I've seen. You need to get a serial, though

. Not that those are hard to obtain....

Cyrus XIII · Local time: Jun 28, 2006, 06:55 PM

A decent program on Linux (which I believe also has a Mac and a Win version by now) is EasyTAG. It tags, renames, looks up (freedb) and once full ID3 2.4 compliance is done (for solid UTF8 tags), it'll be the tag prog from heaven.

Duminas · Local time: Jun 28, 2006, 11:04 AM

Just as a note, be careful with EasyTAG if you're using non-ASCII characters in tracknames. In my case, I tag practically everything in Japanese, and EasyTAG got it wrong and screwed up encodings on me; hence the need to code my own little script to do it. As Cyrus mentioned, it doesn't support Unicode yet (it uses latin-1 on everything), and this latin-1 thing can be a real problem.

evilboris · Local time: Jul 8, 2006, 01:08 PM

I vouch for the Masstagger in Foobar. It can do pretty much anything, and saves me the trouble of installing another app for such a simple feature.

kenkwan86 · Jul 15, 2006, 10:59 AM

I use Mp3tag. mp3tag.de/en/ (u have to make it an internet address yourself coz they wun allow me to add internet addresses now)

Its free, small and good. im not sure if it can support non-ASCII characters. I dun usually use non-ASCII characters as they are not supported in winamp (at least i dun noe how to get it to work).