Tagging

Software

• http://www.mp3tag.com

How to use http://tools.tango.info/tagging.php

These are instructions for ripping CDs to your hard drive and tagging the resulting mp3 or flac files with tagging information from tango.info.

Step 1 - Rip CD to your hard drive

Use a program such as CDex (available from http://cdexos.sourceforge.net ). You need to rip each CD to a separate folder.

Step 2 - Retrieve the tagging information for the newly ripped audio files

Note: Currently this procedure works only for single-CD albums. Go to http://tools.tango.info/tagging.php . Examine the cover of the CD.

If you find a 14-digit bar code number (TIN-14) into the query window and click on "submit query" button. This will return the tags for the tracks on your CD.

If you don't find a bar code number, search the eng.tango.info database for the album's artist name. When you locate the title or cover of the album in the search results, click on it to see the CD details. Click on the tools.tango.info/tagging link. This link will return the tags for the tracks on your CD.

See the example: http://tools.tango.info/tagging.php?tins=00743219561220 .

Step 3 - Create a txt file with the retrieved tagging information

With your mouse, highlight the list of tags you retrieved in Step 2, then right click and Copy it. (Note: you don't copy the whole page, just the data list. Each line of this list begins with the 14-digit number and is followed by other tagging info such as album, song title, track number and year.) Paste the list of tags into a text program like Notepad. Save this as a file with name ending .TXT .

Step 4 - Tag the audio files

Here are instructions for the free tagging program called mp3tag, available from http://www.mp3tag.de/en/ (English). Configure the program:

• a. Launch the program;
• b. Choose 'File' 'Change directory' (CTRL + D); Browse to the location of your tracks; Select the folder where you saved your audio files.
• c. With your mouse, select the first track in the resulting list of audio files. Using that track as an anchor, use the 'Shift' and 'End' keys to select the entire list.
• d. Select 'Convert' and then 'text file - tag' ('Taglist-file/Tag' in older versions);
• e. For filename enter the location of the text file.

For format string enter the following string without quotation marks (you can copy and paste it from here)

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

The number of fields in the text file must equal the number of fields in the format string.

Notes

1 The 'disc_tin' field carries a TIN - see http://wiki.tango.info/mul/Tango_Information_Number .