Mass ID3v2 Tagger Software

Originally Posted by jPokalypse

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 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.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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.

There's nowhere I can't reach.