I've just recently reformatted my main drive. I had beforehand backed everything up to my 500GB NAS. Everything went fine, but when I loaded my music collection back into iTunes - I lost ID3 tag info on about 300 of my MP3s. I reeeeeeeeealy don't wanna go through all of them and relabel them manually, I was wondering if somebody knows of a good MP3 IDer or another solution to my problem? /Gracias
How the hell did the format get deleted. You can try Rad Tools, it can convert what you have to what you need.
Yea I don't know how it happend. The music plays fine, but I lost the ID3 tags... Thanks for the link
Not a problem for me. I use MusicMatch Jukebox as my mp3 player on my PC. It can automatically hook into the CDDB Database and look up the tags.
I'm not a big fan of the CDDB. Not after that whole "were open source send us you're work and CD information!" /Gets info /Runs /Profits And the fact that most of my music is downloaded via .torrent... Dosn't always work too well with the CDDB. But your comment reminded me of FreeDB I'm sure theres a client program that can tag my musics from their DB. //Thanks
Well, I'm not hear to post a solution but just wanna grasp what the hell went on. Have you lost the id tags or is it that iTunes can't read them, have you tried playing those mp3's in another prog and see how it displays tags? How about the date last modified for the files, do they correspond to the time when you imported to iTunes or the time when you created the backup, or any other time. What file manager program did you use to backup your files? I'm not familiar with network attached storage solutions, NAS. I know iTunes has a setting that will allow it to "organize" your music for you, I get edgy when I see this as I have no idea what it would do, so I uncheck it. Was this setting selected for you? I know you may not care to troubleshoot and just want to get your jukebox started but these questions are burning in my mind. I've witnessed a program changing id tags before. It was Xolox, a p2p (I can't reccommend it), it would change the id tags of mp3's that had no tags and fill in with "unknown artist - unknown title". I was annoyed at that as winamp will just display the filename those files that had no tags so that the song title is displayed something like britney spears - oops but with the tags filled in winamp would now display unknown artist - unknown title urrrr!!! IMO it's totally uncool for a prog to just edit id tags out of their own prerogative. Thank goodness I only shared a very small directory with Xolox.
I completely lost the tags... Very very bizzare, I still can't figure out how that happend. I didn't do any kind of fancy backups, just copied my music folder to my network drive using Windows explorer. I did use the iTunes file organizer. Perhaps that was the cause? I'm not sure, but I'm really really happy with how iTunes sorts the files. You tell the program what naming convention you prefer and it takes it from there. Saves me loads of time. I wound up using Music Brainz tagger. Excellent program; it identifies your file by audio fingerprint and matches it with their database. If it finds similiar fingerprints it will let you choose wich is the most appropriate. And never makes any changes until you approve. Great time saver.
