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Title: Media Player to Tag files?
Post by: Flake on January 05, 2009, 10:17:14 am

I was talking with a co-worker of mine this morning and he has proposed an interesting solution for tagging music that I dont see being discussed on this forum.  His suggestion was to use media player to tag files.  I know media player will go out and get album cover art for files but I was unawere that apparently media player will also download and tag song name, artist and other album info - automatically for many of the files and if not you can manually assign the information from a list of available information - all downloaded and displayed by media player.  My co-worker asserts that this information is then permanently altered on the associated file - not just inside media player.

Has anyone ever used media player for this before?  Is so, to what degree of success?

Title: Re: Media Player to Tag files?
Post by: Space Fractal on January 05, 2009, 04:58:05 pm

Do you mean MusicIP or such service?

If you mean tagging from a media player Winamp is one of them, which you can manually tag them, includning mass taging, even a dedicated tag software is better.

Title: Re: Media Player to Tag files?
Post by: Flake on January 05, 2009, 05:03:27 pm

I'm sorry I meant Windows Media Player.  Actually though I have tinkered with this at work today and I"m not sure it does what he claimed it would do.  At least not for songs without certain info already tagged on the file.

Title: Re: Media Player to Tag files?
Post by: Barry Barcrest on January 05, 2009, 05:41:41 pm

MusicIP that Space Fractal mentioned will try and tag tracks that have no tag information in them. I used it with on a ton of tracks i could not be bothered with and it did manage to sort some but there will still a lot it couldn't do and some it tagged wrong. It is worth a shot if you really want to try an automated solution.

Title: Re: Media Player to Tag files?
Post by: mr_doles on January 06, 2009, 12:58:27 pm

I've used a program called Mp3tag http://www.mp3tag.de/en/ (http://www.mp3tag.de/en/).  Now this is not automated but it does support storing the tag in the file, including cover art.  I have used Media player for larger lists but if the info is wrong (and it has happened to me a lot) it will rename your music wrong. 

Title: Re: Media Player to Tag files?
Post by: web.geek on January 08, 2009, 01:31:44 am

I have always used Windows Media Player to manage my music library (about 3000 songs now). Most (probably 75-80% in my experience) will get the right info and tags without any intervention on my part. The rest usually require some tweaking like searching for the right album version (imports, limited editions, mult disc, etc) or finding the right album art and pasting it in WMP.