Free MP3 / WMA mass tag editor

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 8:47 pm

I could use a free program that can simplify MP3 and WMA tag editing both on large and small scale jobs. (flac, ape and wavpack support wouldn't hurt but isn't a requirement either) It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be much faster and much easier then winamp or advanced wma workshop but still free. Does anyone have any suggestions before I start sifting through the billion hits on google for one that doesn't suck?

Testiculese · Post by **Testiculese** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:44 pm

I ripped all my cd's to wav's, encoded them with lame, then ran them through Tagscanner in one shot to set their mp3 tags. It works well, been using it for a few years. I originally found it in '03 when trying to reverse my mistake of encoding my mp3's through RealJukebox. It did a fine job of removing all Real's embedded crap from 6000 songs.

Features

# Rename files based on the tag information
# Advanced multiple files TAG editor
# Supports MP3, OGG, Musepack, Monkey’s Audio, FLAC, AAC, OptimFROG, SPEEX, WavePack files
# Supports ID3 1.0 / 1.1 / 2.2 / 2.3 / 2.4 tags, APE v1 and v2 tags, Vorbis Comments
# Supports for ID3v2 Lyrics and Attached pictures
# TAGs generation from folder/filename
# TAGs versions conversions
# TAGs case conversions
# Import tag information from an online database (freedb)
# Manual text-search for information in freedb
# Worksheets technology
# Recursive subfolders support
# Powerful Playlists editor
# Write extended playlists like Winamp or Sonique
# Playlists export to HTML, Excel and CSV(e.g. for MySQL)

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:59 pm

Halfway there, but it doesn't support WMA...

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 11:27 pm

foobar2000

it supports limited scripting for its mass-tagger, filling tags based on the filepath, and moving/copying based on the above.

Admiral LSD · Post by **Admiral LSD** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:13 am

When I finally got around to giving my MP3 collection sane tags (about when I realised how useful the library features in Windows Media Play were) I used MusicBrainz but it still required a bit of manual selection, doesn't support WMA afaik and since it's a community maintained effort, is likely to be full on innaccuracies.