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