I'm late to the party but after finding my old hard drive from college (pre streaming days) this is exactly what I needed to clean up the 500gbs of music that has its metadata all messed up. Thank you very much. I appreciate how clear and concise you are in your videos
Very good tutorial, and very helpful for my library. This will help and your way of sorting makes so much sense. I need to add copyright information, and label. Thank you so much. iTunes is at its end of life on windows. I won’t miss the issues with its database problems.
Extremely useful. I'm surprised Windows (7) doesn't have something this basic already written in to their OS. I'm loading CDs into iTunes and I'm not able to go online, so no autofill. I've been doing all the metadata manually if you can believe that. Ran out of patience, here I am. This is awesome, thank you!
I used to try organizing like this in Windows and when I did to my mp3 portable player. Now I use Apple devices and there is no longer sense changing filenames. But I liked your tutorial. Very informative for download beginners even in streaming era.
I'm new to Mac too I did do all this on my windows lab, but needed that Mac link and some helpful tips u gave will come in handy, thanks you keep up the good work with music so anything around it would help, coming from you ,......
This video is really useful, i had been using mp3 tag for a while but only to a very basic level. Now i have a better idea of how to get the best out of the software. Thanks Ed!
Amazing. Thank you so much. Been aggrevated with MusicBrainzPicard trying to figure out why my filenames are still being named with track number in the title. This will do extremely well until I figure it out. AND, it does it sooo quickly. Sweet! I understand that this tutorial is for MP3tag but this is my file naming convention for MBP - %albumartist% - %album% $if(%date%,$left(%date%,4))/%artist% - %title% $if(%date%,$left(%date%,4)) . This returns a folder for albumartist - album year then the actual file - artist - title year . MBP will not consistently remove the track number from the song title and I believe the mistake happens based on the method used to look up tag data. Thanks again for this vid and if anyone has a way to help with my issue above....thanks ahead.
I wanted to add ISRC and ISWC codes, I didn't see that here. Without ISRC codes, musicians are unable to collect royalties...the most important thing for any artist.
Would you know a system that stops Gracenote from re-arranging my playlists in my car, playing from a USB stick? The mixed trax are tagged and numbered but the dreadful Gracenote over-rides the metadata. Not on bona fide albums, just mixed track playlistfolders with cue files.
Hi!! I'm using a Sony Walkman A55 and I used Mp3tag to change the metadata for my WAV files. I have a few problems: 1) the album artist shows up as the artist of the song (which isn't always the same person) 2) composer is not shown 3) when I change all this information, it is shown on mp3tag as well as on my computer file but when I transfer it to my Walkman, that information becomes UNKNOWN. How can I fix this problem? I really want to keep using WAV files as they sound much much better. (I don't like FLAC). How can I make the Walkman show the composer and album artist information? Thank you!!
I have a Sony Walkman A55 too and I use MediaMonkey 4 to manage the music on my player. Unfortunately, one of the limitations of the WAV format is that there is no standard for storing metadata within the file. Even if the information appears in your music management program it is not stored in the WAV file itself, and only what is embedded in the song itself will be displayed on your player. When it comes to metadata, how it is stored will depend on both the file format and the music management program itself. As an example, MP3 files have an ID3 tag where the metadata (including album art) is stored within the file itself. On the other hand, I used to use MediaGo and that program would store some metadata within the program rather than the within the files themselves. For WAV files the only place you can directly store metadata in a song is in its filename. However, you can store some of the metadata via the folder structure. As an example, you could organize and name a song as follows: /Carpenters/Horizon/02 - Only Yesterday (album artist/album/track number - song title) This would at least give you the album artist, album's name, track number and song's name. BTW, MediaMonkey has the ability to automatically organize and name songs this way. Unfortunately, as far as I know there is no way to store WAV file metadata (such as composer and album artist) so it will appear on your player. Even if the metadata appears in your music management program it won't be sent to your player when you load your music. That is the reason I save my lossless music as FLAC files. With the FLAC format you can store all of the metadata in the file so it will appear on your player. I hope this helps.
@@Solitaire001 You seem to be really knowledgeable in this kinda thing. Was wondering if you know what are the formats that store the metadata in the file. You mentioned mp3 and flac already. Are there any others? I download music from video sites with 4k video downloader. It by default downloads as M4A, and also can do MP3 or OGG. These files are usually a complete mess when it comes to having proper metadata. Thanks a ton!
Does ID3Tag or MP3TAG let me embed all TAGS including ISRC code and UPC code? Do all platforms recognize all TAGS? For example, if someone uses your music on UA-cam, will it recognize the TAGS and report it to your PRO? I read somewhere that Microsoft does not recognize all TAGS entered in Metadata, rather it more often recognizes Metadata entered as INFO. Also, are WAV files recognized?
I been using MP3 Tag with Mixed In Key 10. Mixed in Key analyzes the tracks including the BPM but when I move the music to MP3 Tag, it does show the BPM. It use to before the updates and on Windows 10 (Not WIndows 11) What can I do to fix that
Using bluOS and have had the problem that the "artist" was not shown in wav files. This nice tutorial helped me in that regard. No I am left with the problem that the artwork is not showing. Is there also a solution to that in mp3Tag or is there another workaround. Thanx
Can you please make a tutorial how to do it on an android phone? I'm satisfied with the metadata I have on my mp3 songs including the Artist, Album cover (Artwork), Album name, Genre and Year although without the rest of the details. but my concern is the filename itself, because I want my mp3 songs' filenames to look neat and formal as their tags and I couldn't change it without making the file unusable. My song filenames is currently named as e.g., *"Stuck with U (1080p)"* and I want it to look neat and formal as *"Justin Bieber & Ariana Grande - Stuck with U"*
This is debatable but it's good practice to put the song title followed by the artist name. You may be able to rename files if you're on android, you just have to enable developer settings OR upload to Google drive and rename it before re-downloading although it will update the "date created" field.
I encountered a problem where after adding some tags, I can no longer play the music. something to do with the codec. I tried again, and it's still the same. I dunno why
You need to download audacity your metadata is not corrupt is just the one whom you down loaded puts their own metadata and needs to clean up. I had the same problem via iTunes in my phone it wouldn't let me play the songs and I would try to play them and they I'll say can't play in your country or region something.
Can't you do all this natively under properties? Also I've notice inconsistent and missing fields when comparing mp3 files to flac or other audio files such as media created date, tags, producers, and parental ratings. I don't know why this exists and how to be consistent with varying file types. It's impossible to add a creation date (date song was published) to an mp3 file.
I think a factor in this is that some of the same metadata is stored in different tags for different formats. I discovered this when I was updating the ratings for my songs in MediaMonkey (MM). In MM there was one place to update the ratings. However, when I checked the songs in MP3Tag discovered that the ratings were scatted into different tags. MP3 stored them in one tag, FLAC stored them a different tag, and in some cases the ratings were stored in a different manner (some used stars, others used a percentage of 100%).
Wow - I feel your pain. If they are in folders or some form of grouping on your device at least you can batch changing some metadata that you can do in groups such as the album name, or the artist, or the genre, then work down manually doing the ones that have to be done one at a time. Sorry if you already know, but when you rip from CD normally the tool searches its database to match the number of tracks on the CD and length of each track to identify the probable album, but once it is on your device it is not able to do that as far as I know. I might be out of touch though!
Great video, I'm an upcoming artist and I want to know how to use this method for my own songs, my own original recordings, pictures, etc.??? anyone???
Please help me! I've used mp3tag in the past and I was able to save all my Actions and easily apply them to all my music easily using the Actions tab, but I can't for the life of me work out how to do it now. Basically, I had everything as 'Blank' down the left hand side and saved that as an Action for all my music albums.
If you select "Blank" for an item on the side panel and then save it then it will delete that item for all of the songs you've selected. If you immediately undo it you might be able to recover the information since it will undo your last action.
Hi. Thanks for mentioning this. Yes, because I run choirs, and musicals, I have so many backing tracks I have made them an artist in my library and then sort them into albums by genre, style, musical, etc. Sorry that wasn't clearer. Its a great point!
My god you might as well teach people how to turn on their computer or what the internet is at the introduction because it starts so dreadfully slow I wanted to scream
Its a good point Nigel! I've learnt to include timestamps and a list at the start since this one. Always learning! :-) I think its time well spent as lots of people don't know about metadata and enabling detailed views. But I do take your point - sorry if you had a wasted time waiting for the bit you wanted to drop in :-)
I'm late to the party but after finding my old hard drive from college (pre streaming days) this is exactly what I needed to clean up the 500gbs of music that has its metadata all messed up.
Thank you very much. I appreciate how clear and concise you are in your videos
Glad this has been useful to you :-) Thanks for the comment!
Thank you! I used a converter to download like 5000 songs from my spotify playlist because I was tired of paying for premium and this was awesome
Hi KUPOkinz, what program/app did you use to download your music from Spotify?
which converter? thanks
Very good tutorial, and very helpful for my library. This will help and your way of sorting makes so much sense. I need to add copyright information, and label. Thank you so much. iTunes is at its end of life on windows. I won’t miss the issues with its database problems.
Extremely useful. I'm surprised Windows (7) doesn't have something this basic already written in to their OS. I'm loading CDs into iTunes and I'm not able to go online, so no autofill. I've been doing all the metadata manually if you can believe that. Ran out of patience, here I am. This is awesome, thank you!
Either that or Foobar2000 smoke any Windows defaults.
Thank you for that powerfull tool, I've been looking for an automatic file-editing tool for a while
Thank you so much! This is exactly the information I needed :)
Glad it was helpful!
I used to try organizing like this in Windows and when I did to my mp3 portable player. Now I use Apple devices and there is no longer sense changing filenames. But I liked your tutorial. Very informative for download beginners even in streaming era.
no longer sense changing file names? Elaborate? im here because Apple devices wont let me lol.
I'm new to Mac too I did do all this on my windows lab, but needed that Mac link and some helpful tips u gave will come in handy, thanks you keep up the good work with music so anything around it would help, coming from you ,......
Glad I could help!
This video is really useful, i had been using mp3 tag for a while but only to a very basic level. Now i have a better idea of how to get the best out of the software. Thanks Ed!
Great - glad it helped. Thanks for the comment.
Thank you for making MP3Tag make more sense to me!
Thank you for your help, its very helpful
Thanks much! This is very helpful!!
A very useful and well explained tutorial. It's obvious that you're doing your job well. Your students are very lucky (=
Great demo video. Thank you,!!
Amazing. Thank you so much. Been aggrevated with MusicBrainzPicard trying to figure out why my filenames are still being named with track number in the title. This will do extremely well until I figure it out. AND, it does it sooo quickly. Sweet! I understand that this tutorial is for MP3tag but this is my file naming convention for MBP - %albumartist% - %album% $if(%date%,$left(%date%,4))/%artist% - %title% $if(%date%,$left(%date%,4)) . This returns a folder for albumartist - album year then the actual file - artist - title year . MBP will not consistently remove the track number from the song title and I believe the mistake happens based on the method used to look up tag data.
Thanks again for this vid and if anyone has a way to help with my issue above....thanks ahead.
Informative video nice job !
I wanted to add ISRC and ISWC codes, I didn't see that here. Without ISRC codes, musicians are unable to collect royalties...the most important thing for any artist.
Thanks.
Very Useful.
worked great, how do you return the songs once edited to their folder.
thank you so much for this!
Great review 👍
how can I get the BPM data of the mp3 file within the metadata of that mp3 file?
Would you know a system that stops Gracenote from re-arranging my playlists in my car, playing from a USB stick? The mixed trax are tagged and numbered but the dreadful Gracenote over-rides the metadata. Not on bona fide albums, just mixed track playlistfolders with cue files.
can you use your own photos for artwork?sometimes you cant find artwork for rare psychedelic music?what format ?jpeg? and will it resize it?
Hi - Not done that myself for a long time, but I'm pretty sure you can yes. I'll have a go when I get a chance 🙂
yes you can Jpeg will work. keep artwork size 150pixels/640pixels. give it a try have fun.
Hi!!
I'm using a Sony Walkman A55 and I used Mp3tag to change the metadata for my WAV files. I have a few problems:
1) the album artist shows up as the artist of the song (which isn't always the same person)
2) composer is not shown
3) when I change all this information, it is shown on mp3tag as well as on my computer file but when I transfer it to my Walkman, that information becomes UNKNOWN.
How can I fix this problem? I really want to keep using WAV files as they sound much much better. (I don't like FLAC).
How can I make the Walkman show the composer and album artist information?
Thank you!!
I have a Sony Walkman A55 too and I use MediaMonkey 4 to manage the music on my player. Unfortunately, one of the limitations of the WAV format is that there is no standard for storing metadata within the file. Even if the information appears in your music management program it is not stored in the WAV file itself, and only what is embedded in the song itself will be displayed on your player.
When it comes to metadata, how it is stored will depend on both the file format and the music management program itself. As an example, MP3 files have an ID3 tag where the metadata (including album art) is stored within the file itself. On the other hand, I used to use MediaGo and that program would store some metadata within the program rather than the within the files themselves.
For WAV files the only place you can directly store metadata in a song is in its filename. However, you can store some of the metadata via the folder structure. As an example, you could organize and name a song as follows:
/Carpenters/Horizon/02 - Only Yesterday (album artist/album/track number - song title)
This would at least give you the album artist, album's name, track number and song's name. BTW, MediaMonkey has the ability to automatically organize and name songs this way.
Unfortunately, as far as I know there is no way to store WAV file metadata (such as composer and album artist) so it will appear on your player. Even if the metadata appears in your music management program it won't be sent to your player when you load your music.
That is the reason I save my lossless music as FLAC files. With the FLAC format you can store all of the metadata in the file so it will appear on your player.
I hope this helps.
@@Solitaire001 You seem to be really knowledgeable in this kinda thing. Was wondering if you know what are the formats that store the metadata in the file. You mentioned mp3 and flac already. Are there any others? I download music from video sites with 4k video downloader. It by default downloads as M4A, and also can do MP3 or OGG. These files are usually a complete mess when it comes to having proper metadata. Thanks a ton!
Does ID3Tag or MP3TAG let me embed all TAGS including ISRC code and UPC code? Do all platforms recognize all TAGS? For example, if someone uses your music on UA-cam, will it recognize the TAGS and report it to your PRO? I read somewhere that Microsoft does not recognize all TAGS entered in Metadata, rather it more often recognizes Metadata entered as INFO. Also, are WAV files recognized?
My problem is that my windows doesn’t find all the titels or singer/groups albums some time. How can I fix this?
Can this thing fix all this automatically? I am looking for something with minimal user input
It does not give the original date of each album because it is practically that reissues, tu en connais ?
I been using MP3 Tag with Mixed In Key 10. Mixed in Key analyzes the tracks including the BPM but when I move the music to MP3 Tag, it does show the BPM. It use to before the updates and on Windows 10 (Not WIndows 11) What can I do to fix that
For some reason it's tagged but in now in the wrong order and some tracks playing are labelled with a different track?
Using bluOS and have had the problem that the "artist" was not shown in wav files. This nice tutorial helped me in that regard. No I am left with the problem that the artwork is not showing. Is there also a solution to that in mp3Tag or is there another workaround. Thanx
Not that I know of yet - but I'll keep looking too! :-)
Great video
i just want to know how add column to mp3tag call (remix)
Hi how do remove all album covers thankyou
Hi, great video! Do you know how to enable in the column that the app could show the bit depth?
You can chose which columns appear from the view menu. Or by right clicking in the headings row.
this was a blast! thanks
Glad you enjoyed it!
Can you please make a tutorial how to do it on an android phone? I'm satisfied with the metadata I have on my mp3 songs including the Artist, Album cover (Artwork), Album name, Genre and Year although without the rest of the details. but my concern is the filename itself, because I want my mp3 songs' filenames to look neat and formal as their tags and I couldn't change it without making the file unusable. My song filenames is currently named as e.g., *"Stuck with U (1080p)"* and I want it to look neat and formal as *"Justin Bieber & Ariana Grande - Stuck with U"*
you can't do it on Android either way
This is debatable but it's good practice to put the song title followed by the artist name. You may be able to rename files if you're on android, you just have to enable developer settings OR upload to Google drive and rename it before re-downloading although it will update the "date created" field.
I wanted to do a search for something that keeps reappearing and then delete that as a group, no search talk sucks
After i rename anything it isn't able to play in groove music?
Perhaps you changed the file names as well as the file details? If so you would need to show Groove music where the file is again. Try that.
I encountered a problem where after adding some tags, I can no longer play the music. something to do with the codec. I tried again, and it's still the same. I dunno why
now it corrupts the file
You need to download audacity your metadata is not corrupt is just the one whom you down loaded puts their own metadata and needs to clean up. I had the same problem via iTunes in my phone it wouldn't let me play the songs and I would try to play them and they I'll say can't play in your country or region something.
Can't you do all this natively under properties? Also I've notice inconsistent and missing fields when comparing mp3 files to flac or other audio files such as media created date, tags, producers, and parental ratings. I don't know why this exists and how to be consistent with varying file types. It's impossible to add a creation date (date song was published) to an mp3 file.
I think a factor in this is that some of the same metadata is stored in different tags for different formats. I discovered this when I was updating the ratings for my songs in MediaMonkey (MM). In MM there was one place to update the ratings. However, when I checked the songs in MP3Tag discovered that the ratings were scatted into different tags. MP3 stored them in one tag, FLAC stored them a different tag, and in some cases the ratings were stored in a different manner (some used stars, others used a percentage of 100%).
I'm not able to remove the thumbnail now after I've changed it. Has anyone else come across this? Any help would be awesome.
What i lf have a bunch of individual songs all from different artists? I still have to manually change all the info for over a thousand songs…
Wow - I feel your pain. If they are in folders or some form of grouping on your device at least you can batch changing some metadata that you can do in groups such as the album name, or the artist, or the genre, then work down manually doing the ones that have to be done one at a time. Sorry if you already know, but when you rip from CD normally the tool searches its database to match the number of tracks on the CD and length of each track to identify the probable album, but once it is on your device it is not able to do that as far as I know. I might be out of touch though!
@@EdTechMusic Thanks for the advice. I went with MusicBrainz Picard. I put in 30 songs at a time and check each one if it got it correctly.
@@wss33 Great solution! Glad its worked for you 🙂
What was your process? I'm starting with 1200 songs but have no idea where to start.
Great video, I'm an upcoming artist and I want to know how to use this method for my own songs, my own original recordings, pictures, etc.??? anyone???
Please help me! I've used mp3tag in the past and I was able to save all my Actions and easily apply them to all my music easily using the Actions tab, but I can't for the life of me work out how to do it now. Basically, I had everything as 'Blank' down the left hand side and saved that as an Action for all my music albums.
If you select "Blank" for an item on the side panel and then save it then it will delete that item for all of the songs you've selected. If you immediately undo it you might be able to recover the information since it will undo your last action.
Is the name of the artist Backing Track? If not your video is confusing. For use music listeners, ed don’t se files like you do.
Hi. Thanks for mentioning this. Yes, because I run choirs, and musicals, I have so many backing tracks I have made them an artist in my library and then sort them into albums by genre, style, musical, etc. Sorry that wasn't clearer. Its a great point!
My god you might as well teach people how to turn on their computer or what the internet is at the introduction because it starts so dreadfully slow I wanted to scream
11:10 i need this for videos pls help
I have 2467 hours 57 mins of play back. 180gb. Im jist going to wait for some Ai software to do it for me.
Big Nicole Kidman fan are you?
Over five minutes into this before we start using Mp3tag.
Its a good point Nigel! I've learnt to include timestamps and a list at the start since this one. Always learning! :-) I think its time well spent as lots of people don't know about metadata and enabling detailed views. But I do take your point - sorry if you had a wasted time waiting for the bit you wanted to drop in :-)
Are you allergic to z's?
Ha! That did make me laugh. I assume you are in the US? in the UK we spell 'organise' with an 's' ;-)
When Americans forget English comes from England.
@@edstar83 and yet we're the most known for it...
hilarious