Mass ID3v2 Tagger Software
 

Does anyone know of a good mp3 tag editor for those who have lots and lots of mp3s to tag? I know Abander TagControl is a very good piece of software except you have to pay for it. Are there freeware that are just as good? (in particular, one that can handle unicode filenames/tags?)

I use ultra mp3 tagger, but the UI is just too confusing, like you must name the track number one by one. I dont recommend you to use this one (plus it's shareware)

I usually use winamp media database to tag the id, quite useful, though I would like to know if there is alternative of freeware tagger.

http://massid3lib.sourceforge.net/

^_~ I love this program. The only thing I've noticed is this stange thing. While it's tagging the files, if you press the Ctrl key it'll crash. Weird and also harmless, so =D

MP3/Tag Studio

http://www.magnusbrading.com/mp3ts/

Clean UI too.

http://www.magnusbrading.com/mp3ts/sc_auto_rename.jpg

I haven't used any of the others recommended by these guys, but I've been using The GodFather for a long while and I'm still satisfied with it. It has the most options I've seen in an MP3 tagger.

http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/

I personally use a masstagging script I wrote myself, but you probably aren't using Linux. :P

Anyways, for a Windows masstagger, I just used foobar2000's mass-tagging utility. A bit confusing if you've not played around with the program before, but it's very powerful once you get used to it. Any particular reason you want to use ID3, though? I've converted to APE tags recently, and found the whole "no region encoding" thing quite handy, since they seem to be just Unicode~

Only thing I can think of ID3 having over APE tags is player compatibility. Is there anything else, if anyone has any idea? Curious here.

It seems that this MP3/Tag Studio has a neat file renaming function, do you happen' to have a serial for it Grawl?

Doesn't need a serial.

I like MP3/Tag Studio quite a bit. I am a stickler for having my files all named properly, so after I did that (with a mass renamer) I tagged all my files from the filenames and folders. You can also rename off tags, which was handy a few times. I was able to tagfix pretty much every single MP3 I have in a very short amount of time (periodically throughout one evening).

I use ID3-TagIt. Free-ware, can dial up freedb and you can choose tag sets to fit the files you have, can automatically organize MP3's to artist-album-etc folders. Just a great easy to use program...

I've looked at all the other programs mentioned, but I must say Tag&Rename blows all competition out of the water (In the way of features, ease-of-use, GUI, etc). I have a cracked version if anyone wants it.

And, for the few Mac users on the board who might want a mass-tagger, I find MediaRage is an excellent tag management tool for OS X—great for mass-tagging and other media-file duties. It's sort of an all-purpose toolbox, and it's great at what it does. Plus, it works on a bunch of file formats and supports Unicode. Shareware, though, and I have yet to find a serial for it. I'm sure one exists though.

If you're looking for something simple, I thought I'd come back in here to mention TagScanner. It has the cleanest UI of any MP3 tagger I've seen.

http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm

P.S. The site loads slowly, so you will need to be patient.

EDIT: I've mirrored the version I have HERE. But I'm not sure if it's the newest version out.

i'd say tag&rename is the best ive used

also though, if you are familiar with foobar2000, it has a nice built in masstagger

I also say Tag&Rename. Easy to use, most tagging options available out of every program I've seen. You need to get a serial, though :(. Not that those are hard to obtain....

A decent program on Linux (which I believe also has a Mac and a Win version by now) is EasyTAG. It tags, renames, looks up (freedb) and once full ID3 2.4 compliance is done (for solid UTF8 tags), it'll be the tag prog from heaven.

Just as a note, be careful with EasyTAG if you're using non-ASCII characters in tracknames. In my case, I tag practically everything in Japanese, and EasyTAG got it wrong and screwed up encodings on me; hence the need to code my own little script to do it. As Cyrus mentioned, it doesn't support Unicode yet (it uses latin-1 on everything), and this latin-1 thing can be a real problem.

I vouch for the Masstagger in Foobar. It can do pretty much anything, and saves me the trouble of installing another app for such a simple feature.

I use Mp3tag. mp3tag.de/en/ (u have to make it an internet address yourself coz they wun allow me to add internet addresses now)

Its free, small and good. im not sure if it can support non-ASCII characters. I dun usually use non-ASCII characters as they are not supported in winamp (at least i dun noe how to get it to work).

For just tagging the files, FB2K is the best for me. But for compatiblity with my CD/Mp3 player I use ID3-TagIT to do advanced things like changing Unicode/UTF-8 tags to ANSI text encodings and down-converting ID3v2.4 tags to ID3v2.3.

One of the things I absolutely love about Tag&Rename is the option to copy all of the information from one tag onto other tags, so they all essentially contain the same information. I know some might think that this isn't really an important feature, but I am usually a neat freak when it comes to naming/tagging my music files. This feature satisfies the obsessive-compulsive that is within me...

Do you know any software that gets the job done on Linux? That's been an issue for me for some time now. A reliable software tandem along the lines of EasyTAG + a command line tool for correcting the encoding bit would be fine for the time being.