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ID3 tag software recommendation

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jazzman161

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Hey all! I'm looking for an ID3 tag software that could help me retag my collection. Here's what I'm looking for.

All my music is organized by artist (main folder) - album (sub folder) - songs. Is there something that can automatically grab the artist and album from the folders and tag accordingly? I thought I read that MP3Tag could but I can't figure out how. Any help?
 
I don't know about auto-tagging, but I use Tag&Rename. It can pull album information from Amazon.com and a few other databases to correctly tag all the ID3 fields along with adding the album cover art to the mp3's and the folder.jpg

I was able to tag my entire mp3 collection, ~550 artists w/ nearly 2,000 full albums, over 20,000 mp3's. They are also all named exactly how I like, "01 - Song Title.mp3" or "01 - Artist - Song Title.mp3" for Albums with multiple artists, like soundtracks.

Tag&Rename is at least worth taking a look at.
 
i used music brainz when i did mine
http://musicbrainz.org/

it was a little learning curve but worked good, i looked at programs probably 2-3 years ago though, and haven't looked since and used music brains. the post above looks like that is pretty promising.
 
Thanks for the replies guys. I gave MP3tag one more shot and i THINK it's doing what I want. I'll find out when its done updating my tags. Hopefully I didn't mess something up =/
 
jazzman161 said:
Hopefully I didn't mess something up =/
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just to be safe, when I tagged my entire mp3 collection, I copied the 155 GB of mp3's to another location before I started to serve as a backup, and it saved me a couple times where it had tagged incorrectly because of a stupid error on my part, and then renamed the files and they were in an order that i couldn't fix lol
 
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Any suggestions for a program that can do a search and replace in ID3 tags?

Edit, nm I see mp3tag can do it.
 
This is pretty basic stuff. In Mp3tag, use the following string for Filename - Tag assuming your files use the 00 Title naming scheme:

Code: 
%artist%\%album%\%track% %title%

With ID3v2.x, you'll want to strip the leading zero from the TRACK tag by using the auto-numbering wizard and including the total number of tracks in the X/Y format (check "Save total count of tracks").
 
I use MP3Tag to preprocess tracks, then I import them into iTunes which handles any later changes (typo corrections).
 
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