Tango.info music album tagging with foobar2000

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This page describes tango.info album tagging with foobar2000.

Album tagging

  • Select the album you want to tag
  • Find the same album on tango.info
  • Follow the link to tagger1.3 testing
  • Select the columns you wan to tag, for instance %album_name%;%album_artist%;%discnumber%;%track%;%title%;%artist%;%genre%;%date%;%dummy%
    • if you only want dates, put only %date%
    • press submit
  • Put the tag data into foobar2000
    • Copy the results and return to foobar2000
    • Right click | Properties | Tools | Automatically Fill Valuess
    • Clipboard: line per track
    • enter the pattern into the foobar2000 field "Pattern"
    • if you only want dates, put only %date%
    • or you use something like %%;%barcode%;%album%;%album artist%;%discnumber%;%track%;%title%;%track artist%;%genre%;%date%;%%;%totaltracks%;

Note: This scheme should match the output of the tango.info tagger, "%%" discards data.


  • You get a preview
  • click ok to write the tags