Organising Your Music Files Using Metadata with MP3Tag

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In this week's video I am talking about how to really easily edit the hidden (sort of) metadata of your music, recordings, backing tracks, etc, to organise and find your great resources easily time and again. I'm then looking at MP3Tag, an app for windows, mac and Linux that lets you do this for multiple files at the same time, or even search online for the information on commercial audio files too.

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I'm Anthony, an educator from Devon, UK. I try to help primary (elementary) educators by making teaching classroom music easier, more fun and raise standards by using technology.

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[polandk]

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

[steves]

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!

[kupokinzyt]

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<3 All my music is beautiful now and I no longer have OCD aneurysms when I look thru my songs :)

[Kaelas]

A very useful and well explained tutorial. It's obvious that you're doing your job well. Your students are very lucky (=

[miomiomiomiii]

Very informative video! It's great that I've stumbled upon this since I gave up on organizing due to the amount of music I own. I didn't think I need to do this until now.

[sharifo]

Thank you for that powerfull tool, I've been looking for an automatic file-editing tool for a while

[nicolasbuitrago]

Thank you so much! This is exactly the information I needed :)

[thealarman]

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!

[nero-one]

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

[filtercharger]

Thank you for making MP3Tag make more sense to me!

[mischiefminded]

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.

[RedDFilm]

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.

[jean]

My problem is that my windows doesn’t find all the titels or singer/groups albums some time. How can I fix this?

[mottrex]

For some reason it's tagged but in now in the wrong order and some tracks playing are labelled with a different track?

[LenGreenblat]

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 YouTube, 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?

[falconauii]

worked great, how do you return the songs once edited to their folder.

[deejayworlhed]

i just want to know how add column to mp3tag call (remix)

[patrickkerns]

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?

[Miko_of_the_North]

Can this thing fix all this automatically? I am looking for something with minimal user input

[Cupcake-cezh]

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!!