I've been using Mp3tag for years. Here are a couple of tricks for
beginners:
- Typically, you'll tag or correct a single album, or maybe a single
artist and all of the artist's albums. The fastest way to select a
folder in Mp3tag is to launch Mp3tag from Windows Explorer. Keep an
Explorer window open and select the folder, right-click and click
Mp3tag. If you failed to install the Windows Explorer extension, rerun
the setup and tick the 'Explorer Context Menu' checkbox in the
installer. When working through multiple albums you don't have to
close Mp3tag after each one, since launching Mp3tag from Explorer will
simply load the new folder and replace any files already loaded.
Working like this can be much faster and easier to keep track of what
you're doing than launching Mp3tag with all of your library, and it's
much faster than using Mp3tag's own internal directory navigation.
- Use the Tag Panel (the form on the left) for doing edits to many
files, such as all tracks in an album, or all tracks by an artist. But
_remember_ to select the files to change first, and to save by doing a
Ctrl-S or clicking the blue diskette icon afterward.
Use the file view (columns) to edit individual fields, such as Title
and Artist (on compilations), for data that differs from track to
track. In the Tools > Options > General settings there's an option to
'Automatically select next file when editing in file view'. Tick this
and when editing you can go straight down a column by hitting the
Enter key.
- There are many ways to customize the interface. You can add fields
to the Tag Panel, and you can add or hide columns in the file view.
The first thing you may want to examine is hiding fields in the file
view that you don't think you need to see or will never edit.
Right-click anywhere in the column headers and select 'Customize
columns...'.
- Learning to use Actions (and Action Groups) will be invaluable. The
first one I would create would be an action to rename your files based
on TITLE. After you've changed a title, you'll probably want the
filename to reflect the edited title. A simple version of that action
group might consist of a single Format Value action and look like:
-Action type:- *Format value*
-Field:- *_FILENAME*
-Format string:- *$num(%track%,2). $validate(%title%,-)*
The $num() function here formats the track number to two places. The
$validate() function replaces any illegal characters with dashes. This
would give you file names such as:
02. Eleanor Rigby.flac
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