Setting track properties en masse

I frequently forget to properly set the ID3 tags before ripping a CD; net result, I have to change them before I download to empeg. To do this, I have to select each track in a playlist, and change the tag properties.

What would be really nice is if I could select either the playlist the tracks are in, or use A to select all the tracks in a list, and then change the common properties *once* (such as the year), instead of doing it laboriously one track at a time.

Amen!
This would be a great feature if it's possible/easy to implement.
Thanks,


_~= Dearing =~_
"WAY too happy about having #99."

Fully supported! About half of my ID3 tags are off. Would welcome a utility to edit these more easily that changing the properties windows of each individual track!

Henno

I've written a little utility for id3 tagging, which allows you you set all the properties of a group of files at once, including extracting the track name, artist and even track number from the filename.. (Or if you work the other way round, rename the track from the tag...)
I've not put it anywhere yet, cause I need to write some instructions, but if anyone is interested, I can bung them a copy.. (windows only for now)
(Not too useful if the Mp3's are on a cd already, but you could copy them to HD before uploading to the empeg, and you'd still save time on updating the properties.. =)

Jazz
(List 112, S/N 00030, 4 gig blue)

> I've written a little utility for id3 tagging, which allows you you set all
> the properties of a group of files at once...(windows only for now)

Don't worry about us *ix users. I do it with:
$ for i in *.mp3;do mp3id3 --artist "$artist" --album "$album" -g $genre -s "$title" -y "$year" $i;done

In fact, I completely seperate the processes of ripping, querying CDDB, adding
the ID3 tags, transferring to the Empeg and creating the playlists.

Paul

There's a pretty good, albeit buggy, Freeware ID3 utility called MP3 Tagger (I'm sure there are planty more) that alows you to change individual files or en masse. It works pretty well for file on my HD, but I'd still like to see the feature in Emplode.
Jason

_~= Dearing =~_
"WAY too happy about having #99."

I used to use an ID3 tagger called minta (OS/2 only) that did this.

But nowdays i'd just recommend you get yourself a good ripping tool.

Grip is an excellent free ripper, it will automatically set track info from the cddb so you will never 'forget' again. And you only have to set the year once per album, not once per track (year isn't stored in the cddb), though you still have the option of overriding it with individual years, for compilation type albums

http://www.nostatic.org/grip/

Though I havn't seen your util - the one that I've found to be /the/ best is "MP3 TAG STUDIO" that can be found at http://www.abc.se/~m9761/mp3tag_studio

It allows you to change mp3's based on mp3 tags, file names name tags, trim start/end of mp3s (for pops and the like).

Hope this helps.

> but I'd still like to see the feature in Emplode

Yeah, that's primarily the idea - was aware of many of the good suggestions people have mentioned here (thanks!), but emplode would be a good place to have it as well (for the idiots like me who constantly forget to set the tags prior to ripping).

It's suspiciously quiet in the empeg camp - are you there, Mike?