Need help with tagging my music.

Oops, I made a boo-boo :flushed_face: While ripping all my new CDs, I set filename to just “title”. Now I’m having difficulties getting all the info from freeDB. i.e., I can get the info, but the track numbers are not set properly, rather in alphabetical order :frowning:

Actually, good old windows media player seems to have got this right. It checks the filename, and assigns track number accordingly. But then wmv doesn’t like flacs very much :frowning:

What do I do?

Have you tried Musicmatch Jukebox? It’s bloated but the tagging support is simply awesome, and it allows you to rename and retag files.

Even Foobar has decent tagging support with a plug-in, and can write to FLAC files.

Ok, got it. Tag&Rename does the job quite easily :smiley:

I think I didn’t explain my problem properly. See, for freeDB or any similar DB to work, the tracks need to be in the correct order. Since I didn’t have the track numbers, it wouldn’t work. Now, entering track # manually through foobar or mp3tag (which I Was using earlier), was a labourios and time consuming process. Windows media player is the only software I found which does this the correct way. It gets the album info from the net, then checks the filenames against the list, and assigns tags accordingly. All other tagging softwares do not consider filename at all. They assume your tracks are in the correct order to start with.

Tag&Rename makes it a whole lot easier, as it lets me drag my tracks up and down and reorder them. Much easier than entering track number for each track one by one :stuck_out_tongue:

Of course, the proper way to do it is set EAC to save filenames as “Track# - Title”.

I tag my mp3’s using iTunes or Media Monkey , they both work gr8.

Media Monkey is a bit more easier.

mp3tag has an option to sort the freedb results before you apply. I remember mailing a request to Florian and he included it in the next build.

I would surely recommend foobar2k. Its the best and does everything neatly. Plus you can make your own masstagger scripts.

The only drawback (not for me, I prefer it this way) is that you’ll not be able to embed album art in the tags.

MusicBrainz+Media Monkey=Best combo.

I’ll try this out. But I found Tag&Rename to be much better :slight_smile:

The older version of Tag&Rename used to have a irritating adbar with it , but

looks like its changed now they changed from Adware to Trial version its good.

**Mp3tag **is a powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit metadata (ID3, Vorbis Comments and APE) of common audio formats. It can rename files based on the tag information, replace characters or words from tags and filenames, import/export tag information, create playlists and more. The program supports online freedb database lookups for selected files, allowing you to automatically gather proper tag information for select files or CDs.

Link: Mp3tag - the universal Tag Editor (ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv2)