MP3 Tagging and Organization Software
Just curious what everyone uses (windows based) for MP3 tagging and organization?
I am using MP3 Tag, but am looking for alternatives.
Thank you
Nothing wrong with MP3Tag, mate.
Stick with it.
foobar2000. The only reason I’m using it over mp3tag is support of aiff.
Media Monkey.
mp3tag’s alright.
itunes is great for tagging, but if you’re on windows i wouldn’t bother with it tbh
Tag & Rename
I use itunes but yeah it is a PITA
I don’t use iTunes at all these days. Fed up of all the bugs and waiting half an hour whilst it uses all four of my cores at full power for the simplest of tasks!
dbPoweramp for ripping and conversion
Tag & Rename for tidying things up
Trainspotter 2.1 for dynamic playlists
jriver media center
I think the free version jriver media jukebox is as flexible for tagging and organising a library.
It does everything Filthy Dave mentioned in one program.
I use MP3Tag. Once you know how to use actions with it, it makes tagging a piece of piss.
I have 1 action set up that does this when it’s selected: -
Changes the case so each word starts with a capital letter and the rest of the letters are lower case
Replaces “feat”, “feat.”, “Feat”, or “Feat.” with “ft.”
Copies the artist name to the artist tag field from the folder name
Copies the album title to the title tag field from the folder name
Copies the artist tag field to the album artist field
Replaces ‘’ (2 apostrophes) with " (proper quotation mark) in tag fields
Tags the genre with “Hip-Hop”
Tags the year with “2013”
Embeds the folder.jpg file in the album folder into each music file
That basically leaves me with very little to do other than change the year and genre if necessary. I chose “Hip-Hop” and “2013” as the defaults as they’re the ones I find I use the most.
If the album is by various artists, I have another action set up to handle that which does all of the above, but it places “Various Artists” in the album artists field, and the relevent artists’ names in each track’s artist field.
MP3Tag Actions are the fuckin’ shit.
I’ve only scratched the surface with 'em, but I keep meaning to do more.
I currently have them doing THIS:
Delete all Tags that I do not use (year/album artist/composer/comments, etc…)
Convert Filename to Tag (Key - BPM - Artist - Title)
Insert “created date” into “sort name” field (This helps me with iTunes Dynamic Playlists for by Month Playlists). MASSIVE thanks to Papo for helping me out in THIS thread.
Replace “feat”, “feat.”, “Feat”, or “Feat.” with “ft.” (exactly the same as Sigma) <<<This caused me a bit of grief when it started renaming my Featurecast tracks to ft.urecast!!! 
Replace Dj with DJ and Mc with MC
Like I said - a HUGE world of posibilities that I have only just scratched the surface of!
Maybe you’ve changed it already, but if you edit that and check the box next to “only as whole word”, it won’t replace those terms when they are part of a longer word like “Featurecast”.
Definitely! Same here really, although I don’t really think I need to do anything else.
I set a rule changing ft.urecast to Featurecast - but I’ll give this method a try. Thanks for the heads up!
I have considered setting up an action to populate Genre based on Artist - but I have so many tracks by Artists that produce multiple Genres that it is just easier to manually type the Genre myself.