Multiple mp3's on jukebox question

May 21, 2005 6:00 AM

I've just got a very natty little mp3 player which comes with MusicMatch Jukebox 9 to transfer music from my PC to the player. So far, so good - but I'm having problems loading on multiple tracks with the same name - I'm much more into listening to albums straight through, and I have several albums by the same artists which (of course) have identical track names. Can anyone suggest a method of automatically renaming shed-loads of mp3's so I can listen to albums as they were meant to be heard, instead of missing out tracks which have appeared elsewhere already? I know it can be done manually, but life is too short (and Emerson, Lake and Palmer have recorded the same songs *way* too many times)! :-) Thanks!
posted by timpollard to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

There are a variety of programs that can help manage the tags and file names for MP3s, ogg files, flac, and other audio formats.
The-GodFather
MP3tag
Tag & Rename

I personally use T&R, it has a feature for automatically renaming files based on tag information, so as long as the files have the album properly tagged, you can set up a rename scheme like:
(track #) - (album) - (artist) - (track name)
or whatever you want.

I'm sure the other utilities can do it too, but I'm happy with T&R. It's not free, but is a good value for the $, and downloading the album information from Amazon is very handy.
posted by Jack Karaoke at 6:52 AM on May 21, 2005

Tag & Rename is truly excellent.
posted by matildaben at 7:23 AM on May 21, 2005

MusicMatch will also manage tags, look up missing tags in a database, and rename files. I use it, and it works pretty well. Select a bunch of songs, right-click and choose "Super Tagging". The only catch is that maybe the free version that comes with your player doesn't include super tagging. They try to force you to buy the upgrade.
posted by fuzz at 9:18 AM on May 21, 2005

First post, and I had to jump in to say Tag & Rename is really the benchmark by which all other MP3 taggers should be judged. Worth the registration.
posted by Merdryn at 9:37 AM on May 21, 2005

I use Sergey Serkov's free TagScanner.
posted by amestoy at 2:53 PM on May 21, 2005