MP3 Taggin Question

to answer your v1 or v2 question, use v2. here is some info why. (http://ipodlounge.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=298&highlight=id3+tag) do a search in the old forum database for more info.

your mp3?s will play on the ipod if you only tag the artist and song, but invest the time and tag them all. you?ll be glad that you did. there are tagging programmes like drtag, idtaggit... to make it easier. search for them in the old forum database to find links, or google them.

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I played around with Dr. Tag. Seems to be a lot more than I am after. I am waiting for my IPod to be delivered and thought I would get this all organized before it came. But I am at a road block

I am really lost with this stuff. Here is what I have on my hands.
I have 1500 or so MP3's that are all saved in one directory called "Music" They are all named the exact same way. I use Winamp to play them

Artist- Song Name

As far as tags I look at them and some are full of info and others have nothing. What will happen if I tag each song with only the Artist and Song Title and then use Ephpod to transfer all of them to the pod? What will my screen look like?. Will it know to group all of the songs by the same artist together and then open a new tree showing those songs when I scroll onto them?

Cause that is what I want..

I guess my basic understanding of tags and the role that they play in grouping music is causing me problems...

Any help would be great..

I just uninstalled MMJB off my computer cause I hate it. But might reinstall it if it helps in this regard. How much info needs to be on the tag in order for it to be displayed in an organized manner on the IPod? Artist? Tiltle? Genre? Album?

Might I recommend that you don't use MMJB to tag. It has proven to have some problems in the accuracy in its tagging abilities.

Dr. Tag or my fav, id3-tagit (www.id3-tagit.de, free) work well.

You really want these nicely to get the most out of the iPod. At a minimum you want the following tags populated:

Artist
Album
Title
Track#
Genre

The iPod will use these tags to organize your music. So, when you select Browse>Artist> and select an Artist, you'll be presented w/all their albums. You can then select an album and all the tracks on that album will be displayed based on the Track#.

You can also browse by Genre which is quite handy.

And although the iPod doesn't care about how your files are stored on your PC (what their names are or what directories they are in), the tag editors mentioned both have features to rename the files based on tags, so when you're done w/your files you can rename automatically, even creating Artist/Album sub-folders.

If you want to get that organized... ;)

Adam

Originally posted by ashawley
Might I recommend that you don't use MMJB to tag. It has proven to have some problems in the accuracy in its tagging abilities.

Dr. Tag or my fav, id3-tagit (www.id3-tagit.de, free) work well.


the only problem with id3-tagit (and yes Ive used it) is that you have to manually add all info. Correct me if Im wrong, but there is no lookup feature like in MMJB.

I only use MMJB to tag and in my experience it is great at that. The only time I ever run into a problem with a tag is with demo songs or bonus tracks that arent listed on an album. You do have to manually input info for those, but its better to do 1 or 2 songs manually than ALL your songs. And MMJB does add all your requirements on the tag in the lookup feature:

Artist
Album
Title
Track Number
Genre

Ignodium, you question is just what I answered. Unless there is a lookup feature that I cant find on id3-tagit, everything is done manually. I dont like MMJB for anything other than tagging.

Originally posted by Ignodium
If that is the case, than Ephpod is just as good (and ephpod even has hotkeys, f2 for the title, f3 for album, f4 for artist, etc.).

Right. I was thinking the same thing earlier. If you have to manually input the info, why not just do it on Ephpod??

Some have said Dr. Tag is good as you can tag from the file name if your files are named correctly. Personally, MMJB work so good at tagging that Im not even gonna try anything else.

MMJB provided a correct guess about 20% of the time. It proved more laborious in the end because I had to go through each track to check the accuracy. I already had my music arranged in folders for Artist and Album, so I used a mass tagger to get tags from filename+folders.