a FREE batch ID3 tagger?

**hushypushy** · August 11th, 2004

i googled but couldn't find one for free. any recommendations? sometimes i "get" CDs

(no seriously, i get them. legal FLACs of recorded concerts, i.e. Primus ones) and the file names are alright (and maybe not...). all i want is a thing like Irfanview for example---i put the files in order, put in the artist, trackname, and album and it fills that all in plus track number (or yay, a bonus..autodetects it!). i dont know if such a program exists...but if you can point me to some freeware (or perhaps shareware...so i can try it out) i'd appreciate it

edit: an Ogg tagger would be nice too. sometimes i have to convert these fan-recorded concerts (3 CDs of FLAC) into ogg and manually.....rename....every......song.......

**Kane** · August 11th, 2004

I use MP3 Tag Studio

**hushypushy** · August 11th, 2004

thanks, i'll try it

**Kirby** · August 11th, 2004

I use TagScanner

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/981935153/1

**FLaRe85** · August 11th, 2004

I use WMP9. It looks it up automatically as soon as it sees it in my My Music folder.

Blebekblebek · August 12th, 2004

yeah.. mp3tag
www.mp3tag.de
it's totally free

**Kirby** · August 12th, 2004

The Godfather is another free proggy you should check out. It's mostly a music database creator, but it has a good tag editor too

**hushypushy** · August 12th, 2004

wow, i like MP3 tag studio. that thing even has built in shell commands, so after i tag the CD based on the (for example) <artist> - <album> - <tracknr> - <title> i can just do a right click to rename it to <artist> - <title> .....awesome

btw flare: i HATE wm9's tagging. in fact, back on my old hard drive (before it died) with all my old music, it really really ****ed up my music tags badly. it set all my untagged files so that artist was blank and the title was just the filename....man that was hell fixing those

**FLaRe85** · August 12th, 2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by hushypushy

btw flare: i HATE wm9's tagging. in fact, back on my old hard drive (before it died) with all my old music, it really really ****ed up my music tags badly. it set all my untagged files so that artist was blank and the title was just the filename....man that was hell fixing those

LOL, you can change that in the settings :P

**hushypushy** · August 12th, 2004

well i didnt know that at the time, and it really ****ed with my files :|

Ipswitch · August 13th, 2004

mmm foobar

Noxious Ninja · August 13th, 2004

Yep, Foobar 2000 has a nice masstagger. It can be a bit confusing at first, but it works really well. Plus, it works on almost any file format.

**hushypushy** · August 13th, 2004

...even OGG? i must try this out...

RZetlin · August 27th, 2004

I found this one, Tag&Rename and it works pretty well.

It has cut my time in half from opening up the songs Winamp and renaming them in that way.

Gamer1 · August 27th, 2004

i use MP3 Book Helper. it's an open source utility that's really really useful, even grabs info from freedb to name the id3 tags and the same info can be used to batch rename the mp3 files.

it even generates winamp playlists

August 11th, 2004	#1 (permalink)
hushypushy the only one you've ever SEEN Join Date: May 2003 Location: San Francisco Posts: 21,837	a FREE batch ID3 tagger? i googled but couldn't find one for free. any recommendations? sometimes i "get" CDs (no seriously, i get them. legal FLACs of recorded concerts, i.e. Primus ones) and the file names are alright (and maybe not...). all i want is a thing like Irfanview for example---i put the files in order, put in the artist, trackname, and album and it fills that all in plus track number (or yay, a bonus..autodetects it!). i dont know if such a program exists...but if you can point me to some freeware (or perhaps shareware...so i can try it out) i'd appreciate it edit: an Ogg tagger would be nice too. sometimes i have to convert these fan-recorded concerts (3 CDs of FLAC) into ogg and manually.....rename....every......song....... __________________ Dedicated to mediocrity and repetition since 1994. 2008 "How Not to Post" guide

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Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	I use MP3 Tag Studio __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

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hushypushy the only one you've ever SEEN Join Date: May 2003 Location: San Francisco Posts: 21,837	thanks, i'll try it __________________ Dedicated to mediocrity and repetition since 1994. 2008 "How Not to Post" guide

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Kirby Politically incorrect FTW Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Massachusetts, USA Posts: 8,445	I use TagScanner http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/981935153/1 __________________ AMD Athlon64 X2 4400+ Toledo, Nvidia GeForce 7950GT SLi, 2GB PC3200 2-3-2-5, ABit AN8-SLi, Sound Blaster X-FI XtremeMusic

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FLaRe85 I Need a Weapon Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Omaha, NE Posts: 4,321	I use WMP9. It looks it up automatically as soon as it sees it in my My Music folder. __________________ .: Flaretech.Net :: Flaretech.Biz Web Hosting :: H3 Stats :: My Blog :. .: Mac Pro :: Dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5400s :: 6 GB 800MHz DDR2 ECC FB-DIMMs :: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB GDDR3 :. .: Macbook Pro 17" :: 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo :: 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 :: ATI Radeon X1600 :. .: Home Server :: 2.41 GHz AMD Opteron 180 :: 4 GB DDR400 :: Windows Server 2003 Enterprise R2 :.

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Blebekblebek Kelelep di Laut Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Banjarmasin [Indonesia] Posts: 149	yeah.. mp3tag www.mp3tag.de it's totally free __________________ ~ Blebekblebek ~ 500x130, 25k max

August 12th, 2004	#7 (permalink)
Kirby Politically incorrect FTW Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Massachusetts, USA Posts: 8,445	The Godfather is another free proggy you should check out. It's mostly a music database creator, but it has a good tag editor too __________________ AMD Athlon64 X2 4400+ Toledo, Nvidia GeForce 7950GT SLi, 2GB PC3200 2-3-2-5, ABit AN8-SLi, Sound Blaster X-FI XtremeMusic

August 12th, 2004	#8 (permalink)
hushypushy the only one you've ever SEEN Join Date: May 2003 Location: San Francisco Posts: 21,837	wow, i like MP3 tag studio. that thing even has built in shell commands, so after i tag the CD based on the (for example) <artist> - <album> - <tracknr> - <title> i can just do a right click to rename it to <artist> - <title> .....awesome btw flare: i HATE wm9's tagging. in fact, back on my old hard drive (before it died) with all my old music, it really really ****ed up my music tags badly. it set all my untagged files so that artist was blank and the title was just the filename....man that was hell fixing those __________________ Dedicated to mediocrity and repetition since 1994. 2008 "How Not to Post" guide

August 12th, 2004	#10 (permalink)
hushypushy the only one you've ever SEEN Join Date: May 2003 Location: San Francisco Posts: 21,837	well i didnt know that at the time, and it really ****ed with my files :\| __________________ Dedicated to mediocrity and repetition since 1994. 2008 "How Not to Post" guide

August 13th, 2004	#11 (permalink)
Ipswitch /dev/user Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Internet Posts: 407	mmm foobar

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Noxious Ninja Registered User Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: teh intarweb Posts: 1,718	Yep, Foobar 2000 has a nice masstagger. It can be a bit confusing at first, but it works really well. Plus, it works on almost any file format. __________________ 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0

August 13th, 2004	#13 (permalink)
hushypushy the only one you've ever SEEN Join Date: May 2003 Location: San Francisco Posts: 21,837	...even OGG? i must try this out... __________________ Dedicated to mediocrity and repetition since 1994. 2008 "How Not to Post" guide

August 27th, 2004	#14 (permalink)
RZetlin General of Tangerines Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Defending the Sea Posts: 3,885	I found this one, Tag&Rename and it works pretty well. It has cut my time in half from opening up the songs Winamp and renaming them in that way. __________________ AMD Athlon 64 3700+ \| 2 GB RAM \| XFX Nvidia 6800 GS 256 MB XXX Edition \| Win XP Pro SP2

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Gamer1 Anti-Brand Loyalist Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Its too dark to tell... Posts: 3,237	i use MP3 Book Helper. it's an open source utility that's really really useful, even grabs info from freedb to name the id3 tags and the same info can be used to batch rename the mp3 files. it even generates winamp playlists __________________ Iris: (Proc:Intel Pentium4 2.8Ghz w/ HT UNLOCKED @ 15x200) (Mobo: Asus P4C800-E) (RAM: Corsair XMS 2x512MB DDR400) (HDD 1: Seagate 80GB, 8MB Buffer, 7200 RPM) (Disk Drive 1: Lite-On 16x DVD Burner 1673S) (GFX Card: Radeon 9800 All-In-Wonder Pro 128MB) (Sound Card: Sound Blaster Audigy) Morrigan: (Proc:AMD Athlon 2500+ @ 11x200) (Mobo: Asrock K7V88) (RAM: Corsair XMS 512MB DDR400) (HDD 1: Seagate 80GB, 8MB Buffer, 7200 RPM) (Disk Drive 1: NEC 16x DVD Burner 3200AG) (GFX Card: Radeon 920064MB) (Sound Card: Sound Blaster Live! 5.1)

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