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Song Tagging

BlueIce5249

BlueIce5249

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Im trying to get all my music tagged correctly and I'm having a hell of a hard time. Dont tell my apple friends, but this is where I really wish I had an iphone.

Does anyone have any tips? Ive tried a few programs and windows itself and Im about at my wits end with this. I hate having 4 or 5 different artists that are all the same. What do I change and how do I change it? It seems the Album Artists tag is what is throwing it all off. And just when I think I have it right, it magically goes back and pisses me off all over again!

Id hate to buy an ipod, but that's about where I am with all this.
 
Some players (like the n7 player) let you change the tags on your phone - but I find that it's easier to just do it on the computer before transferring. There's plenty of free mp3 taggers that you can try. Here's one:
Mp3tag - CNET Download.com
 
See the thing is that switching to an i-anything is not going to solve your problem. The tags are there and they're wrong, and the iphone- or pod is going to organize them accordingly.
Maybe what you mean is that you feel that changing tags in iTunes is easy. In that case: download iTunes, change the tags and load the songs into your S3. That should work - the only downside is that you have to use iTunes which, imho, is one of the worst things ever made - the bloatware is seriously draconian.
Just some tips (coming from someone who is somewhat obsessed with his tags):
- Put all the songs that belong together (most likely an album) in one folder. That would be "The White Stripes" + "the white stripes" (no capitals) and "White Stripes" (no 'the').
- Select all the songs (ctrl-a) and drag them into the mp3 tagger.
- Put them in the right order. www.allmusic.com has a seriously good database of tracklists of pretty much any album ever made. Make sure that the filename (NOT necessarily the title) has the right track number. For example: "07 Seven Nation Army"
- Once they're in the right order an the file names have the correct numbers in the title: still within the mp3 tagger, select all the songs again and change the album and artist name them as a bulk.

Good luck
 
Most of my old CDs were various artist CDs, a lot of which weren't on tagging services so I ended up having to type it all in manually. I spent about ten hours doing it all in one day.

Nowadays services like iTunes and Amazon allow you to download songs, however rare, with all of the information already in the files, so it's pretty easy to sort out now.

I just used Windows Media Player to tag everything and it did it perfectly.
 
Toosploos said:
See the thing is that switching to an i-anything is not going to solve your problem. The tags are there and they're wrong, and the iphone- or pod is going to organize them accordingly.
Maybe what you mean is that you feel that changing tags in iTunes is easy. In that case: download iTunes, change the tags and load the songs into your S3. That should work - the only downside is that you have to use iTunes which, imho, is one of the worst things ever made - the bloatware is seriously draconian.
Just some tips (coming from someone who is somewhat obsessed with his tags):
- Put all the songs that belong together (most likely an album) in one folder. That would be "The White Stripes" + "the white stripes" (no capitals) and "White Stripes" (no 'the').
- Select all the songs (ctrl-a) and drag them into the mp3 tagger.
- Put them in the right order. www.allmusic.com has a seriously good database of tracklists of pretty much any album ever made. Make sure that the filename (NOT necessarily the title) has the right track number. For example: "07 Seven Nation Army"
- Once they're in the right order an the file names have the correct numbers in the title: still within the mp3 tagger, select all the songs again and change the album and artist name them as a bulk.

Good luck
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Done all this, doesnt work. It worked for about an hour, then they all went back to what they were before our of NOWHERE. I about lost it. I mention the ipod thing because ALL of the tags from the same file shows up PERFECTLY in my brothers ipod I tried them on.
 
No sweat, you can solve this. I think that your music collection is DRM (Digital Rights Management) protected. Did you download it from iTunes by any chance? If so: there are a lot of restrictions on what you can do with that file (still loving Apple?). Changing tags might be one of them.
Try and use this program. It should remove the DRM and it let's you change the tags.
DVDnextcopy iTurns - CNET Download.com

Edit: I dont know what file extension they have now, but it might be good to convert them to something commonplace, like mp3 using this program.
 
Toosploos said:
No sweat, you can solve this. I think that your music collection is DRM (Digital Rights Management) protected. Did you download it from iTunes by any chance? If so: there are a lot of restrictions on what you can do with that file (still loving Apple?). Changing tags might be one of them.
Try and use this program. It should remove the DRM and it let's you change the tags.
DVDnextcopy iTurns - CNET Download.com

Edit: I dont know what file extension they have now, but it might be good to convert them to something commonplace, like mp3 using this program.
Click to expand...
No DRM.

I used MP3Tag to remove the Album Artist and now half my music isnt showing up at all. I just keep making this worse:mad::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:
 
Does anyone know of any apps that will work the the SG3 to fix the tags? Tried a few with no luck, didnt know if someones used one I havent tried.
 
I use Poweramp as my music player and, whilst it's neither free nor perfect, it does have some neat ways of untangling the kind of problem you are describing. It might be worth you trying the free Poweramp 15 day trial. For me, its biggest draw is that is handles gapless playback.
 
I use Player Pro, again a paid app but has a free trial period. I've used it to change some of my tags and it works fine
 
Use a desktop solution, on-phone tag alteration is going to be way too cumbersome unless the number of files that need fixing are very small.

+1 for mp3tag, used it for years - excellent tagging software.
 
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