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    Music Program

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by makeitso, Nov 6, 2011.

  1. makeitso

    makeitso Notebook Enthusiast

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    I am looking for a music program that can take music files that are named "track 1", "track 2" and so on with no tag data and automatically scan a folder for and find the song name and enter the tag data.

    I hope there is such a program. I have a ton of music files I know I want to keep but don't want to have to do this manually one song at a time. All of these songs were ripped from CD's and no other information is available, just "Track 1" and so on. I don't care if it can find album art or other stuff just mainly the song title and artist. I know there are programs that can find the song name by listening to some of it so this should be possible.

    I know it would have been easier to have that information when the music was ripped but since I didn't do it and wasn't around I had no control. It is what it is.

    Thanks in advance
     
    makeitso, Nov 6, 2011
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  2. olyteddy

    olyteddy Notebook Deity

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    WinAmp has a feature called 'Auto-Tag' that works pretty good. It 'listens' to the song then compares it to a huge data-base. Pretty quick, too. About 10 or 15 seconds per song.
     
    olyteddy, Nov 6, 2011
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    newsposter Notebook Virtuoso

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    tagscan, mp3tag, etc, etc, etc
     
    newsposter, Nov 7, 2011
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    ExMM Notebook Evangelist

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    I have been using Mp3Tag for ages. It does a wonderful job.
     
    ExMM, Nov 7, 2011
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    Hirohata GBF Danchou

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    freedb plugins and MusicBrainz comes to mind. They do require an internet connection as the databases are online.

    For future archiving, take a look at EAC and Audiograbber.
     
    Hirohata, Nov 8, 2011
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