Solo tagging with Mp3tag
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Limitations
- Solo tagging works only for single-CD albums - for multi-CD albums, instead use mass tagging.
Requirements
- 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
Step 1 - Retrieve tag data
- If you have the album's barcode number:
- Go to http://tools.tango.info/tagging.php.
- Enter the barcode number into the (unlabelled) text input box and click Submit.
- Else (you do not have the barcode number):
- 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).
- Identify your album, checking title and artist name, and click on it (you'll get the tango.info album page).
- Check that album page's track quantity agrees with your album's files. If it doesn't, you probably mis-identified the album.
- 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 3 - Save the tag data
- 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)
- Select all lines in the tag list, then right click and Copy to the clipboard.
- Launch Notepad and into it Paste the clipboard.
- Save under the filename c:\temp.txt.
You've saved the tag lines for your tracks.
Step 4 - Put the tag data into your track files
- Launch mp3tag.
- Click File | Change directory... and select your album folder.
- In the tracklist heading, click on Title then Filename (you'll get the track list ordered by ascending track number).
- Click Edit | Select all files.
- Click Convert | Text file - Tag (you'll get the Text file - Tag dialog box).
- In Filename: enter c:\temp.txt.
- In Format string enter
%dummy%;%album%;%track%;%title%;%artist%;%genre%;%year%;%dummy%
- Click OK.
You've put the tag data into your track files. Mp3tag shows you the result.