ID3 Tags

[black roadster]

Anyone have a suggestion for software (ideally freeware) that will update my ID3 tags on MP3s? Some of my songs are incomplete. iTunes will not do it unless you download the song from them.

[black roadster]

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

Let my clarify.

I use iTunes for my music DB. I have several songs that did not get ripped from CD into iTunes. I want to get the ID3 info and album art for these automatically rather than edit each one individually.

iTunes has a function to Get CD Track Names. It gives me an error when I try it.

"iTunes cannot get CD track names for songs that were not imported using iTunes. To allow iTunes to get CD track names for this song, import the song again using iTunes."

I found a program called MusicBrainz but it doesn't seem to user friendly when I tried to use it and it also messed up iTunes by reneming the directories the music was stored in.

[redmenace]

I haven't figured a way to get album art besides iTunes, but never needed it anyway.

As for the ID3 stuff, I would be surprised if there were anything effective for individual tracks. Normally, when an audio CD is inserted, iTunes queries CDDB / GraceNote using parameters unique (sorta) to that CD. (I suspect it is the number of tracks concatenated with the total runtime, which is not always unique.) The point of that jabber is: if you have a whole album worth of these tracks, you might be able to create an audio CD that is treated this way when re-read by your computer -- but then you will take a hit on sound quality with the re-rip. And depending on what maniac ripped these MP3s in the first place, the runtimes may not be correct (i.e. if their software pads the ends with silence, either by design or through a lousy codec).

IMO, suck it up and get typing. If you got those tracks for free, consider the incomplete ID3 info part of the price. Otherwise, consider the energy you will expend hunting a potentially unreliable automated approach.

If you spend some time in iTunes you might discover features that streamline your approach, such as selecting multiple tracks from the same artist/album and entering that data once.

(Clearly, I am at work and bored.)

[Magma]

I haven't figured a way to get album art besides iTunes, but never needed it anyway.

If you have a mac try a program called Fetch Art, it surches Amazon for CD album artwork

Link

[Nexus Flux]

For mass tag edditing you gan get The Godfather. let me know and I can email it to you cuz it's only 3 MB. (Tha reminds me, you still need the other software, Ill get it to you next Wed)

[black roadster]

For mass tag edditing you gan get The Godfather. let me know and I can email it to you cuz it's only 3 MB. (Tha reminds me, you still need the other software, Ill get it to you next Wed)

Bravo! I'll check out The Godfather. Capiche?