Most of us who own an MP3 player or play digital music on a computer will
admit that it's possible to get a little precious over your audio
collection. There's something very satisfying about having a hoard of music
with the correct track and album names for each song. Not only does it look a
lot cleaner in your player, but it makes it a darn sight easier to organize
your collection and manage playlists. Ensuring that all the tags in your
audio files are correct can be a thankless task, but there's plenty of
software around that will make a much quicker job of it. mp3Tag is one of the
better tag editors around, allowing you to edit the metadata (the information
about a track's name, size, album name, artwork, etc.) with a good degree
of autonomy. The app lets you rename files based on this tag information,
replace characters or words from tags and filenames, import/export tag
information, and create playlists. It carries out its dutiesdoes the job very
well too. For instance, the program has a much cleaner interface than many of
its rivals and is smaller to boot, making it very quick and responsive. If
you find that you have a lot of different audio formats on your machine that
you want to keep in check then mp3Tag is perfect. It supports virtually every
major audio file type, so you can edit tags for Ogg, Musepack, and AAC/MP4,
besides just MP3s. tThe program isn't just a tagger, as it also includes
cutting and joining functions that perform pretty well. Perhaps the biggest
boon though is the inclusion of a link-up with the online FreeDB database to
import tags from the appropriate album, spelling a swift end to those MP3
albums you get with track names like 'track01', 'track02',
'track03', etc.) While the data returned from the FreeDB is sometimes
erroneous, it's generally pretty good (though probably not quite as quick
as the import tool in Tag&Rename). It's fair to say that mp3Tag is one of
the clear leaders in its field, and considering it's a freeware app, it's
well worth downloading if you want to clean- up your music collection. Tag
editing is very quick and once you've given your audio the mp3Tag
treatment, you should find it so much easier to organize your tracks.Download
*mp3Tag 2.49b* in Softonic
