Solo tagging with Mp3tag

This solo tagging procedure labels the files of your computer-based music library with track info from tango.info, operating on one album at a time. It works on files of all major audio formats.

To identify albums it relies on the barcode number - the 12, 13 or 14-digit number (excluding spaces and dashes, e.g. 8427328130431) shown under the barcode on the back cover of the album's case, or on the album's tango.info page.

The labels ("tags") it supplies are:

• Album (title) (not Album Artist, Side (a.k.a. Disc Number, Set) - improvement planned)
• (of track:) Title, Track (number), Artist, Genre, Year

Note: The Artist value is a comma-separated list of primary artist name(s) (e.g. orchestra leader) followed by secondary artist name(s) in alphabetic order of (full) name.

Requirements

• Your album is a single-CD album - for multi-CD albums, instead use mass tagging.
• Your album's track files are in one folder containing no additional audio files.
• Track filenames begin with the track number and these numbers are the all same length e.g. 01,02,...10 (not 1,2,...10).

Setup - set up Mp3tag

1. Go here to download Mp3tag V2.39f or later, and then install and launch.

Step 1 - Retrieve tag data

• If you have the album's barcode number:

1. Go to http://tools.tango.info/tagging.php.
2. Enter the barcode number into the (unlabelled) text input box and click Submit.

• Else (you do not have the barcode number):

1. Go to http://eng.tango.info, enter album's title or artist name and click search (you'll get a list of matching albums listed under CDs).
2. Identify your album, checking title and artist name, and click on it (you'll get the tango.info album page).
3. Check that album page's track quantity agrees with your album's files. If it doesn't, you probably mis-identified the album.
4. Click on the link in the top left of that page labelled tools.tango.info/tagging.

You've retrieved the tag lines for your tracks.

Step 2 - Save the tag data

1. Identify the tag list - from the previous step it is all lines between (not including) the last two horizontal rules, but excluding any final line(s) starting with not found:Array ( ) (these can be safely ignored)
2. Select all lines in the tag list, then click Edit | Copy.
3. Launch Notepad and click Edit | Paste.
4. Click File | Save, enter the filename c:\mp3tag.txt, and click OK.

You've saved the tag lines for your tracks.

Step 3 - Put the tag data into your track files

1. Launch Mp3tag.
2. Click File | Change directory... and select your album folder.
3. In the tracklist heading, click on Title then Filename (you'll get the track list ordered by ascending track number).
4. Click Edit | Select all files.
5. Click Convert | Text file - Tag (you'll get the Text file - Tag dialog box).
6. In Filename: enter c:\mp3tag.txt .
7. In Format string enter

   %dummy%;%album%;%track%;%title%;%artist%;%genre%;%year%;%dummy%

8. Click OK.

You've put the tag data into your track files. Mp3tag shows you the result.

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