aac to mp3. Need help to tag mp3's?

[rberger3]

 ???My freind is building a jukebox and converted all his files from aac itunes to mp3 and now needs a program that will look up the mp3 tags and find the album info.  I believe that's the terminolgy used.

[richms]

http://www.musicip.com/ - grab the mixer, let it work on the tracks and then highlight them and choose the fix tags option.

[rovingmind]

thanks for the app link, i'm going to try that out

[Barry Barcrest]

This app is working great on a load of untagged MP3's i had. Even though i was partially aware of music IP i didn't know it could do this. It's not quick but it does a great job and is automated so you can just let it do it's thing

[richms]

Yeah, when I got a boatload of 80s stuff off a mate, it revealed that most of what was tagged air supply was actually not. Quite a neat app IMO.

[rovingmind]

before i run it, how does it handle compilations?  Does it keep them as compilations or do they become individual albums under the artist?

[Barry Barcrest]

From what i can tell it only populates the artist and track title fields. It's easy to put the album name from their using your normal tagging software like tag & rename. Mine had about 900 songs left to do this morning. Once it's complete i will go and check and fill in the missing tags. The hardest part is the artists and track titles IMHO

[rovingmind]

From what i can tell it only populates the artist and track title fields. It's easy to put the album name from their using your normal tagging software like tag & rename. Mine had about 900 songs left to do this morning. Once it's complete i will go and check and fill in the missing tags. The hardest part is the artists and track titles IMHO

Thanks, I think i'll wait to run it after i get a new external drive.  I dont feel like going back through 8000 songs by hand again.  Still looks like a neat program.

[Barry Barcrest]

It tagged about 75% of my un-tagged MP3's but these were mp3's with no prior tag info so that's not to bad i suppose. I am going through now adding all the album details and other missing info manually. To be honest it's probably best running compilation albums through it that you can't match up on amazon.

[Ian]

http://www.magic-tagger.com/eng/index.php


try this

[Space Fractal]

Itunes normally use this file mask screme. if I remember correct:

Artist/Album/Track - Title.M4a.

For the compilations, it use a sub folder for that.

If it does, you can use software to tag your files based on the filenames, example like ID3-TagIt (dont do that on compilations, because it use a extra subfolder(s).

And for the other thing about convertning: Quality is worser when you convert a lossy format to a other lossy format, so it no point really to do that. It simply because it have compressed twice.... Beaware about that. I do not have seen software that play drm (M4p if I remember correct here) effected files.

[tikbalang]

http://www.mp3tag.de/en/