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. If you want instead to tag albums en masse, use mass tagging.

To identify albums it relies on the barcode number. 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-side album (e.g. a single-CD album) - for multi-side 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. WARNING: Versions later that V2.49 have not been tested by me and so, given Mp3tag's poor history of compatibility, may fail. Chrisjjj 15:51, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Step 1 - Retrieve tag data

• If you have the album's barcode number:

1. Go to https://tango.info/tools/tagger1.3.4.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 https://tango.info, enter
   1. album's title and click search (you'll get a list of matching albums listed under CDs).
   2. or... nothing - tango.info doesn't show albums of a given artists [improvement hoped for].
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 tagger1.3.4.

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
   

For Mp3tag V2.46a and earlier:

%dummy%;%dummy%;%album%;%band%;%discnumber%;%tracknumber%;%title%;%artist%;%genre%;%date%;%dummy%

For Mp3tag V2.47 to V2.49:

%dummy%;%dummy%;%album%;%album artist%;%discnumber%;%tracknumber%;%title%;%artist%;%genre%;%date%;%dummy%

1. Click OK.

You've put the tag data into your track files. Mp3tag shows you the result. If you want to revert to your files' original tag data at this point, click Edit | Undo Text file - Tag.

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