Broken ID3 Tags

[Ancibit]

Somehow I accidentally "changed" the Artist column on about 50 of the OCRemix songs I downloaded. Is there some kind of quick fix or should I just go ahead and rename them manually? Thanks.

[The Unsung Plumber]

Pretty sure there's nothing you can do short of renaming them, except re-downloading them, But that would just drain bandwidth so don't do that.

[Gollgagh]

You might try downloading the torrent and specifically directing it to the 50 or so remixes that you changed. Of course that's probably as much work as actually renaming them, plus I have no way of ensuring that it would actually work.

[Ancibit]

I suppose I'll just have to rename them. No big deal. I was just looking for an easier and quicker method. Too small of a hard drive to torrent, but thanks for your suggestions!

[Katsurugi]

I would download the shareware program called 'Tag&Rename.' This app allows you to change the tags to a large number of mp3 fairly easily and without incident. The layout might look intimidating at first, but once you figure out how to use it, it's very convenient. Too bad I don't have the full version so I can't even use it anymore.

[suzumebachi]

'Tag&Rename.'

seconded.

10 chars.

[Genoism]

Hey guys I recently swapped over to a new comp and when i popped in the HD of the old computer to the new one...it unfortunately messed up a lot of my mp3 tags. I don't have a backup of the original mp3 files sadly.

Is there a program anyone knows (free) that I can use to fix them? Most of the messed up tags are from remixes I've downloaded from OCR - including many albums which I've starred and removed the ones I didn't like...so it's not something I'd want to do all over again by redownloading them all. The names are all intact but the album that they are from is not...even though they are all in their own unique folders.

I use wmp12.

[Liontamer ⚖️]

Can't say I'm aware of any options besides re-downloading the files. Others know more, so I hope someone else chimes in, but I'm not aware of any programs that just store MP3 or FLAC metadata without a corresponding file.

[CyberSkull]

Try using a music tagging program like the free MusicBrainz Picard to retag all of your songs. It can search for songs based on their acoustic fingerprint as well as the remaining metadata. You should be able to match up your collection, as most of OCR is in the MusicBrainz database.

[CyberSkull]

Ok, re-read that. So is it your metadata index that got messed up or the tags in your MP3s?

[Genoism]

Ok, re-read that. So is it your metadata index that got messed up or the tags in your MP3s?

Thanks, going to look into that program. Not too sure of the difference between metadata and the tags but the place that stores info like album, composer, etc...all that got wiped. I know I probably won't be able to get back most of that info but at least to have something change the empty album tags to the same as the folder name that contains the mp3's would make a huge difference for sorting.

[Genoism]

Wow dude i just ran that thing and it just saved me days of work....thanks a ton!

[Liontamer ⚖️]

Wow dude i just ran that thing and it just saved me days of work....thanks a ton!

It is the Picard.

[CyberSkull]

"Tags" is the colloquialism for metadata in a music file.