iTunes and music ID tags

LincLinc OwnerDetroit Icrontian
edited August 2004 in Science & Tech
I recently got an iPod, and with it I have been saddled with the need to use iTunes to put music on it. All right, fine, I'll do it. I have a problem with the iTunes/iPod interface though:

They only display ID3 tag info instead of filenames.

This may be a unique problem to me, since I have taken the time to neatly name all of my mp3s according to this scheme:

artist - title

I never bothered to correct their individual tags because I really don't care what Winamp displays them as, so long as it plays what I click on in an explorer window.

First question: In iTunes, I don't see any way to display file names - is there some way to add that ability?

Second question: Is there an easy and free way of changing ID3 tags instead of clicking on them one at a time, opening the dialogue, typing something new, and closing. Even something that would let me go directly from one file to the next in alphabetical order would make this a whole lot easier.

Comments

  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2004
    Easy!

    Go google a program called Zortam mp3 editor.

    Since all your files are neatly named in the "Artist - title" fashion, you can highlight every single song in your computer from within the program, right click, and rename ALL the ID3 from your file names. It'll put artist to artist, title to title.
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited July 2004
    $myLife++;

    heh, thanks mate :cool:
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2004
    ;) enjoy. Great program.
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited August 2004
    Thrax... I have two differant folders of MP3's. One has subdirectorys named
    artist - album and then the tracks are under the album basicaly. But I also have like 4000 other misc mp3's all named just artist - title. There is no album name. I am playing with the tag and rename program and have not tried yours yet. My problem is retrieving the album name. I have to query amazon.com and have to do it a song at a time basicaly or lets just say I have not found a way to automate the album name retrieval. Can your program do that? Go fetch me the album that the song comes from if I have the artist name and song title?

    Tex
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    No, Zortam doesn't access CDDB or any other album/title/artist database to retrieve missing information.
  • LINLIN Tri_State Area
    edited August 2004
    Tex wrote:
    My problem is retrieving the album name. I have to query amazon.com and have to do it a song at a time basicaly or lets just say I have not found a way to automate the album name retrieval. Can your program do that? Go fetch me the album that the song comes from if I have the artist name and song title?

    Tex
    same here. PITA.

    not so sure i love iTunes, but i'm stuck with it, too.


    LIN
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    Once I started really using it-- well, that is to say, "Once I committed to it" as my long-term format (AAC lossless), I started to love it.

    Now I'm re-ripping my entire CD collection to AAC Lossless for my home theatre.
  • fatcatfatcat Mizzou Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    Tex and LIN...try Tag and Rename

    http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm
    http://www.softpointer.com/downloads/TagRename315.exe
  • LINLIN Tri_State Area
    edited August 2004
    primesuspect wrote:
    Once I started really using it-- well, that is to say, "Once I committed to it" as my long-term format (AAC lossless), I started to love it.
    committed... yes... i'm not so sure i want to become an in-patient yet. ;) seriously though, i got off to a bad start with it, so i guess i'm annoyed at myself more than anything.

    much obliged for the links, fc. :)


    LIN
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