I have a big music collection, totalling nearly 30k tracks all stored on my Windows Home Server. I’ve spent many, many hours over the years tagging and organising my collection so that it’s easy to find tracks wherever they are played e.g. on my media centers, my ipods or my phones, so I think I’m a bit of an expert when it comes to tagging mp3 music files.
Lifehacker recently produced a list of the Six Best MP3 Tagging Tools, based on a reader survey they did. I was glad to see that 3 of the applications that I use, MediaMonkey, MusicBrianz Picard and MP3Tag, made it into the list. My first port of call when I’m tagging music is always MusicBrainz Picard, as I like to have full control over the process. I then follow this up with Mp3Tag so that I can make sure the tags are formatted correctly, before importing into MediaMonkey which I use as my mp3 player as it knocks the socks off iTunes.
However, this process can take a while and requires a bit of patience. If you’re looking for a much easier method, then I’d recommend FixTunes, which for some strange reason didn’t make it onto the Lifehacker list. FixTunes can automatically correct track details, including adding missing details, and add album art.
Fixtunes Full Features:
- Edit the song title, artist, album, track, year and genre tags of your music
- Fix your songs automatically, without having to type all the information yourself
- Automatically download and add album cover art images to your music files
- Look up online information on your music like artist bios and reviews with one click
- Rename the music in your library into a standard format
- Organize your music into folders according to artist, album, year or genre
- Remove duplicate music files from your collection with ease, saving the best version
- Quickly search and edit only a portion of your music collection
To try Fixtunes for free (first 50 tracks) click here
