How to Tag Music Quickly

[Funkstar]

I believe mp3tag (all in lower case, and is free, not to be confused with MP3Tag, which has capitals and is not free) has some pretty powerfull scripting functions that might let you built tag portions of your music based on file names.

You will need to do some manual interventions, but you can get the builk of it done for you. For example, you might need to seperate all the tracks names <artist> - <track>.mp3 and run a batch on them, then do the same for <artist> - <album> - <track_no> - <track>.mp3, etc.

Once you have things a bit more consistant, some of the other apps should then be able to go out and complete the missing data for those tracks.

[usxhe190]

Hey guys, calm down

Thanks for all the suggestions. Just to let you know on progress:

1. Tagscanner and mp3tag

Both are powerful but you need to do a search and then you need to know the album names so that you can order the songs according to what it states.

It's good if I have a bunch of songs from the same album from the same artist but my list of songs are everywhere from different artists and genres.

Unless I did it wrong for both software, it's actually quicker for me to manually tag each song by checking the details in Wikipedia than using their search function.

2. Metatogger

I tried using their function (fingerprint tagging) in version 4 but it always crashes. I tried installing a previous version (e.g. 3.19 I think) and it also crashes. I am not sure why that is the case.

So the conclusion is, I am just manually tagging the songs. It takes time but if anyone can solve the above that would be great.

Essentially, I don't think there is software at the moment and just automatically tags "the best guess" information based on filenames "Artist - Song Name.mp3".

3. MusicBrainz Picard

I am gonna try this tonight!