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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

ID3 Tag Edit Made Easy - Learn How to Fix MP3 Tags Lightning Fast

The rise in use of MP3 files as a means to listen and store music has been an excellent way for consumers and music lovers alike to collect their favorite tunes. Unfortunately, MP3's found via the Internet are often downloaded with bad or missing ID3 tag information, leaving for a mess of a music collection that often leaves users frustrated. Whether it be the infamous "Unknown Artist," the misspelling of an artist (Aerosmith or Led Zeppelin), or the wrong artist singing "Instant Karma" (The Beatles instead of John Lennon), these mislabeled tracks and albums can wreak havoc on iTunes' ability to find album art and can cause even more issues with scrubbing services such as Last.fm.

The problem stems from the song's ID3 tags. A tag is the information about a song or an album that helps in labeling the artist and the album of said song. Since the music is usually ripped onto the Internet from a source disc (usually a CD or flash drive), the person ripping the music can mislabel the music or not even label at all, which leads to the spread of files that have the wrong titles and artists.

Manual ID3 Tag Edit

Finding the correct ID3 tags for a song or an album may take time and research, but once you are ready to repair the wronged tags, the cleanup can be done relatively painlessly and in a few easy steps:

1.) If you are on iTunes, find the song that has the incorrect tags, and right click on the song.

2.) Click on "Get Info."

3.) There will be several tag fields in which to fill in information. For the artist name, click "Artist" and fill in the correct information. Please note: The field "Album Artist" is used for sorting purposes. If you have an artist such as Ryan Adams, typing Adams, Ryan in the field with sort the song in the "A" section of the iTunes library instead of "R."

4.) For the Album field, repeat the step.

5.) You may also fill in the album field (If iTunes does not fill the correct album artwork) by copying the album art from a source on the web and pasting it in the "Artwork" field.

Lightning Fast ID3 Tag Editing

I realize this can seem like a very daunting task, just to improve your music listening experience. Luckily the creators of Tuneup also came to this same conclusion. So they created the best automatic mp3 tag editor! They offer free and paid versions of the software. If you are a digital music lover this software is a must have.

If your music collection is a mess and full of "Track 01" and "Unknown Artist" you can fix mp3 tags automatically in minutes!

Fix mislabeled music, download album art, and get concert alerts with the best mp3 tag editor on the market. Click the links above or copy and past this url in to your address bar for a full review of the program and its features, complete with a video tutorial on how to use the software.

http://fixmp3tags.com