Mp3Tag

  • Posted by Shaun on February 26th, 2008 filed in Technology
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For those that have or maintain an MP3 collection Mp3Tag should be your best friend. It’s an incredibly handy tool for manipulating meta-data in audio files. Drag and drop a bunch of files or directories into the interface and go nuts. I didn’t really see that it was a useful tool until I found out about the actions. You can define a variety of actions to perform again specific fields in an ID3 tag or the file name. Cleaning up newly ripped files is a breeze.

I’ve been using it heavily for a couple days to clean up some old audioooks ripped to MP3 that I have. None of them had the same tags or followed any consistent naming scheme. A few minutes with Mp3Tag and things are much nicer. Everything is in order and the file names match the data in the ID3 tag.

I sound like a spokes person for this thing, but now that I’ve discovered how to use it I’m very impressed. It’s definitely the geeks or developers Mp3 manipulation tool. It has its own scripting language and supports reg-ex. Not bad for freeware. The only complaint is that the documentation isn’t that great for a newbie. There is a forum out there, but I just didn’t find what I was looking for. Maybe I just think differently.