Ancibit Posted September 7, 2007 Share Posted September 7, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unsung Plumber Posted September 7, 2007 Share Posted September 7, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollgagh Posted September 7, 2007 Share Posted September 7, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancibit Posted September 9, 2007 Author Share Posted September 9, 2007 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katsurugi Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzumebachi Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 'Tag&Rename.' seconded. 10 chars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genoism Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liontamer Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyberSkull Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyberSkull Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 Ok, re-read that. So is it your metadata index that got messed up or the tags in your MP3s? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genoism Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genoism Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 Wow dude i just ran that thing and it just saved me days of work....thanks a ton! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liontamer Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 Wow dude i just ran that thing and it just saved me days of work....thanks a ton! It is the Picard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyberSkull Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 "Tags" is the colloquialism for metadata in a music file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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