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Relabelling MP3s

cloudeaglecloudeagle Registered User regular
edited October 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
Hopefully this'll be a quick one, since I may be missing something obvious.

So due to a manufacturing error, a couple of songs on my disk got the wrong song/artist tags when I ripped them to MP3s. This is driving me nuts, and I want to fix it... but I'm not sure how. Obviously changing the file name does nothing. Help?

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  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    edited October 2009
    You have to actually edit the label, which you may be able to do through Right-Click > Properties... or definitely within whatever music program you use.

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  • AriviaArivia I Like A Challenge Earth-1Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    In iTunes this is Right Click>Get Info.

    If you have a LOT of music to do this to and don't want to do it by hand, download the Picard tagger from MusicBrainz. It works well, although you may have to re-add the songs to iTunes or any other music library afterwards to read the new metadata.

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  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    there are applescripts that'll bulk-edit tags based on filenames too, I think

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  • ANTVGM64ANTVGM64 Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    I'm in a similar boat with all of my Elton John Cds being labeled at Track 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and what have you. I did Music Brainz Picard, and re-imported. Works well!

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  • 1ddqd1ddqd Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Picard worked well, but sometimes the tags just aren't right, especially if it's obscure music.

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  • cloudeaglecloudeagle Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Welp, I'll give that a try. Thanks!

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  • tardcoretardcore Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    What I use is Winamp, then the EZplaylist plug-in. I can tag and rename multiple files in one click.

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