If you've got about a dozen MP3s or other digital music files on your computer, odds are you don't have too much trouble keeping them organized. But if you've got a few thousand, it can be hard to find what you're looking for unless each track is properly named and tagged. While popular music players like Windows Media Player, iTunes,
Foobar2000 and
Media Monkey will check online databases to find the appropriate metadata for songs you download or rip from a CD, sometimes mistakes occur.
TagScanner can help clean up the mess.
TagScanner is a free Windows application that gives you a variety of tools for organizing your digital music collection. You can import tag information from
freedb.org, Amazon, or
TrackType.org. you can also generate tags from files and foldernames, or rename your files based on tag information. The application supports a wide variety of formats:
- MP3, OGG, Musepack, Monkey Audio, FLAC, AAC, OptimFROG, SPEEX, WavePack, TrueAudio, WMA, MP4 audio files
- ID3 1.0/1.1/1.2/2/2.3/2.4, APE v1 and v2, WMA, MP4, and Vortbis tags, comments, and metadata
There's also a playlist editor and support for exporting playlists as HTML, Excel, and CSV files. And to top things off, there's a rudimentary audio player built right into TagScanner so you can listen to tracks while you're organizing them.
[via
TechnoSpot]
Tags: freeware, id3, music, tagscanner
