Just retagged 5700 mp3s

How long did that take?

You do know that in iTunes you can select all your music, go to ADVANCED > CONVERT ID3 TAGS and select whatever tag version you want. iTunes will then update all the tags to the selected version for you automatically. I do this about once a month with my whole library to make sure everything matches.
You can't edit the flies in that manner, but if you have ID3 V1 tags, iTunes will convert them all to ID3 V2.4 for you.

I spent nigh on 4 days solid retagging my lame 3000 mp3 collection because most of the tages were useless,,, its amazing the number of different ways you can spell 2pac hahaha

Man, I hope you guys used some sort of tagging program.
I use ID3-TagIT 3 and I tagged 2000+ mp3s in around 5 minutes.

i believe in winamp you can just copy from id tag V1 to V2 and vice versa automatically

Originally posted by someone_162
Though I do generally prefer iTunes over Musicmatch, musicmatch did have one good feature. supertagging.
It could automatically tag heaps of mp3's from the internet (like CDDB i think) and could also guess tags from the filename. It was generally pretty accurate.
This may be worth a look before any of you manually tag heaps of mp3s again. (don't know if it comes for mac, but you could always use virtual PC.)

Agreed. I recently retagged 10G of stuff that, umm, somehow appeared on my hard drive. Musicmatch made it tolerable. Currently, when I get a new CD, I wash thru LAME, then Musicmatch to tag, then iTunes to manage/listen.

I have spent a good amount of time retagging my mp3s using mmjukebox. everything looks fine in my library AND in my mp3 tags when I open the files. but as listed in my portable device, the tags are all still screwy. my ipod hasn't recognized any of the changes made to the files. how can i refresh it to do that, if it's even possibe? when I saved a file locally, deleted it from the ipod, then reloaded it onto the ipod, it finally accepted the new info. I REALLY DON'T WANT TO DO THAT FOR 9 GIGS OF MUSIC!! HELP!

k

p.s. I spent all of last weekend reloading my music with volume leveling and enhancement, which took forever. That's why I don't want to have to reload it all again. If I do though, are the files already altered and leveled so I can uncheck those options for a faster upload?

Originally posted by ashawley
Just a point of clarification, in reality the iPod itself doesn't use tags at all. The uploading program you use uses tags. So, for example, iTunes uses tags to get the inforomation on the files to populate its database...then it uses those values to populate the iPod's database..

Minor point, but important.

Personally, I delete all V1 tags from my tunes. No real need to have them since they are so old and not used by many apps any more.

Adam

I tried changing them directly on my IPOD initially. The change took place in the file, but wasn't reflected in the IPOD. What I finally ended up doing was deleting on the files on my IPOD, then synching with my "library" made from the backup files on my local drive. That made the changes show up in the IPOD finally.

I like MM Jukebox, but it has limitations with the IPOD. This was one of them. Also, when I tried to delete a couple of mp3s using MMJ, it left remnants of the files in the IPOD that I ended up having to restore to finally remove. Live and learn I guess...

i think you missed the point in the original post dude... we know we can tag the files easily. it's about getting IPOD to recognize the new tags, which you have to do by deleting the file on IPOD then reloading it again. can't do it in IPOD using MMJ and have it recognize automatically.

on iTunes what are the difference between the versions of tagging?

oh ok , thanks

Well, there is this ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0321223713/qid=1082994399/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-8785803-5363944?v=glance&s=books) book. Not sure how good it is though...