Help an iTunes hater. I have 400 similarly tagged items I want to delete as I listen to them. Why won't iTunes let me have a column that is just "filename"? Every other media player can do that. And don't even get me started on the "keep my music organized" check box. The only way I could get my 400 items into iTunes with unique names was to turn that off, import the 400 items, and use a 3rd party id3 tagger to read the filename into the tag. I thought the Mac experience was supposed to be easy. I must be missing something really stupid. Is there an easier way?
posted on Sep 8, 2008 - 15 answers

iTunes has recently developed a new habit that makes me want to toss it out the window. When I play a song or go to "Get Info," iTunes adds to the "Album Artist," "Composer," and "Comment" fields, and changes my track numbers from "x of x" to just "x". I can't find any way to disable this. Do you folks know how? [more inside]
posted on Aug 30, 2008 - 8 answers

Looking for a lightweight MP3 app for OS X, any suggestions? [more inside]
posted on Jul 2, 2008 - 14 answers

Say I wanted to fill the genre tags of my whole mp3 library automatically. Say I trusted the last.fm community enough to use the three most used tags for a certain song/album listed there (for example: New Order's Ceremony would get "80s" "new wave" and "post-punk"). Say I wanted to do this automatically. Say I had a Mac. How would I go about this? [more inside]
posted on Jan 24, 2008 - 12 answers

Can I use iTunes to tag the specific musicians playing on a track? [more inside]
posted on Aug 19, 2007 - 12 answers

For a friend: How do I get the option to edit the mp3 tag in Windows Explorer with right clicking and going to Properties? [more inside]
posted on May 27, 2007 - 9 answers

iTunes is creating duplicate copies of everything - and isn't faring too well with the id3 tags, either. [more inside]
posted on Mar 18, 2006 - 4 answers

Can anyone share recommendations for software or "least-effort-techniques" for adding ID3 tags and album art to large sets of unsorted, untagged MP3s? [more inside]
posted on Jan 24, 2006 - 17 answers

What's the best method/software for storing/viewing ratings in ID3 tags for mp3s? [more inside]
posted on Jan 2, 2006 - 9 answers

ITunes Filter: Is there a utility that will take track numbers or information in a file name and put it into the ID3 tag? [more inside]
posted on Dec 19, 2005 - 13 answers

How do I change tags in many MP3 files across many directories? [more inside]
posted on Sep 9, 2005 - 5 answers

Does anyone know of a (preferably free) program that will let me copy an ID3 tag from one MP3 file to another. [more inside]
posted on Sep 6, 2005 - 12 answers

How do you organize your music on your computer? [more inside]
posted on Sep 5, 2005 - 31 answers

How can I rename my music folders on my Mac based on ID3 tags? [more inside]
posted on Aug 20, 2005 - 12 answers

How do I make ID3 tags persistent? [+]
posted on Jan 2, 2005 - 11 answers

How can I make changes to ID3 track tag metadata with iTunes 4.7 on WinXP and have those changes stick? [mi]
posted on Dec 30, 2004 - 14 answers

Concerning a large batch of mp3s and their id3 tags: I have about 5 GB of music that I downloaded from Emusic about a year ago. Due to an exceedingly stupid maneuver on my part, I accidentally stripped all the id3 tags from the files, which ended up physically renamed to something like "Untitled Album - Untitled Track 1," etc. -- so I now have about 500 songs like this.

They're organized in folders by artist and album name, so that much information I have -- I'm now in search of a utility that will allow me to get the appropriate information from CDDB or something, and then batch rename the files so I don't have to manually, and painstakingly, do so 500 times. I have both Windows and OS X, so platform's not much of an issue. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
posted on Dec 20, 2004 - 18 answers

Is there a tiny (and free) Windows program I can put in my "Open With" menu for mp3s that will simply rename the file to [Artist] - [Title] based on the file's ID3 tags?
posted on Aug 27, 2004 - 5 answers

What is iTunes putting in my MP3 tags? [mi]
posted on Apr 6, 2004 - 7 answers

What's a good, free, ID3 tag editor? I have 6GB of mp3s, and at the moment, most are stored like this: Artist/Album/## - Title.mp3, and have good tags, except for 500 or so which are dumped in a folder called Misc, and are tagged and named at random. What I want to do is change all of the first group to Artist/Album/Artist - ## - Title.mp3, and all of the second group to Misc/Artist - Title.mp3. Any suggestions?
posted on Jan 9, 2004 - 9 answers

I have a few Gb of mp3 which I want to sort into folders by artist (they are currently all lumped together in one single folder). My ID3 tags are in order. Is there any software that will allow me to do this in XP?
posted on Dec 27, 2003 - 15 answers

Quirky mp3 file format issue more inside
posted on Dec 9, 2003 - 9 answers