Mp3tag

Pros

• Light and Fast App
• Integrated Splicing Tools
• FreeDB Track Query

Cons

• Inaccurate Album Look-Up
• Minor User-Reported Bugs

MP3Tag is a piece of software designed to edit meta data for your music collection.

Anyone who uses a computer or MP3 player to listen to digital music knows that it can be a bit annoying to have songs with incomplete information in your library. If you are like most users, you want to keep your music organized with the proper album and track names simply because of the sense of satisfaction that comes with having fully tagged music. Such organization also looks better through the media player, and it makes it much easier to manage playlists. It might seem like a pointless task to tag each audio file you own, but you can easily find software like MP3Tag to help streamline the process.

Meta data is really nothing more than information about an audio file that isn't actually included in the audio file itself. This might include the name of the album on which the song is found, the name of the song itself, the artist's name, the length of the song, its digital size, and associated artwork. With MP3Tag, you can alter this data in almost any way that you wish. With the app, you can create playlists, export or import existing tag info, rename files to better fit information found in the tag, and replace portions of the file names or tags.

Unlike other apps of this style, MP3Tag is clean, small, and lighter on system resources. It has no issues performing at a high rate, and it is fast enough to handle the most intense jobs.

The name of this software is a bit misleading as well, but in a good way. Since the app is called MP3Tag, you might assume it only works with MP3 files. However, the software works with just about any audio format you might have in your system. On top of MP3s, you can use this software to edit meta data for MP4, AAC, Ogg, and Musepack files.

Thanks to the online database of song tags called FreeDB, the software can import information about your songs or albums and automatically add the data to the appropriate fields. This feature means that you'll no longer have to deal with annoying MP3 albums that load into your music library without any identifying information. In some cases, FreeDB returns meta data that isn't exactly accurate, but it still works better than manually inserting each data point yourself.

MP3Tag is a free piece of software, which is part of the reason why it has become so popular in the category. If you have a vast music library that desperately needs some attention and organization, MP3Tag is the way to go. Organization and recognition will become much easier once you have taken advantage of the power of this powerful software.

Pros

• Light and Fast App
• Integrated Splicing Tools
• FreeDB Track Query

Cons

• Inaccurate Album Look-Up
• Minor User-Reported Bugs