Best MP3 tagging utility

[forenzik]

Ok - I don't know shit about this stuff..

I got a bunch of MP3's and I want to be able to add: cover art / genre / BPM

I want the tags to be able to be viewed with digital Dj platforms (serato / Torq / Traktor) - None of which I own as yet.

I want to be able to view the BPM tag in a standard detailed win XP window (alongside Title / artist / genre etc)
I should add - I already have my own methods for calculating the BPM, so no need for a utility to auto do it.

I don't use Itunes that much, so thats not an issue. I usually listen to MP3's through Win Media Player - Don't know if this matters.

reccomendations??

[DJ Fusion]

*dons flame suit*

I love iTunes for on the fly listening and editing, but for bulk batch editing I use The Godfather free tagger.

[gamblore]

Yep I'm on iTunes as well.

[andreas]

You can tag and write meta data in Traktor also

[phunkdust]

MP3tag

[ekwipt]

MP3 tag or Foobar 2000

Once you own the platform it's probably better to use their own software

for example i use serato and you can tag WAV files, which you can't do with another program then view it inside serato

[tweetyfish]

or TagIT is great for tagging in bulk

[TurntableTech]

MP3tag

+1

[Citizen]

Can all of those also Tag WAV's as well? And are they available for Mac?

What's your pick?

[ekwipt]

I've read you can tag WAV somehow? but never found out how, and my guess it would be quite limited. I've got a Dave Clarke CD thats tagged, but maybe that's tagging in the container of the cd format (who knows)

Big + with Serato is that you can tag WAVs, it's not actually writing into the WAV file though

[big eddie]

serato isn't tagging the actually files, it's writing it to an index.

if you want lossless + tagging it's FLAC time

[Citizen]

if you want lossless + tagging it's FLAC time

But Serato doesn't support FLAC yet, does it?

[esseeayen]

mp3tag is the best free program, check it out:

http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

[SpaceMonkey]

iTunes allows you to bulk edit all of those tags and add album artwork in batches, but it can't auto-calculate the bpm if thats what you're after.

[Gregama]

fucking awesome. I just did a fresh XP reinstall and was thinking about tagging all my mp3z accurately (finally).

[unwritten_law]

Windows explorer on vista isnt too bad for filling out fields such as artist, album, track name, track no, etc.

[Funkedub]

i like slipping in cheeky bits of info in the tags of tunes and mixes i've made ... just for those that look at such details ;D

[mesh]

ieatbrainz fo shizz

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ieatbrainz/

have a look at the page and see if its what you need ...