[Q] What do I use to tag my files?!

[SoulEata]

[Q] What do I use to tag my files?!

Answer:

The MisticRiver community uses a diverse selection of programs to tag their files. Here is what everyone recommends:

-Tag & Rename

This is shareware with a 30-day trial period and a nag-screen.
Support for: mp3 (ID3v1, ID3v2.2, ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tags), MusePack mpc/mp+ (APEv1, APEv2 and ID3v1 tags), Windows Media wma, asf and wmv files, Ogg Vorbis and Flac (vorbis comments), Apple iTunes and iPod aac (m4a) files including mp4, lossless m4a and protected m4p files, most popular lossless codecs including monkey’s audio, wav pack, optim frog, flac, Apple and Windows Media lossless.

Also multiple tag support.

http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm

-Foobar 2000 (also a media player)

This is freeware, with support for fast tag editing and file renaming.
It is an advanced audio player,
Audio formats supported "out-of-the-box": WAV, AIFF, VOC, AU, SND, Ogg Vorbis, MPC, MP2, MP3, MPEG-4 AAC
Audio formats supported through official addons: FLAC, OggFLAC, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, Speex, CDDA, TFMX, SPC, various MOD types; extraction on-the-fly from RAR, 7-ZIP & ZIP archives

http://www.foobar2000.org

-The Godfather

Freeware, allowing for batch rename of files using Tag/Filename/Folder name/Audio file information

Supports both ID3v1 & ID3v2 up to date versions.
Supports Ogg Vorbis comments.
Supports APEv2 tags.

http://www.webattack.com/dlnow/rdir.dll?id=106303

-TagScanner

Freeware.
It can edit tags of several progressive audio formats, rename files based on the tag information, and generate tag information from filenames. Also you may get album info via Internet music database freedb.org. Supports ID3v1, ID3v2, Vorbis comments and APEv2 tags

http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm
(also at download.com)

-Advanced MP3 Catalog Pro

Shareware, with batch ID3v1 & ID3v2 media tags editing

http://www.wizetech.com/amc/

-MP3Tag

Freeware, supports
Advanced audio Coding (aac)
Free Lossless audio codec (flac)
Monkey's audio (ape)
MPEG Layer 3 (mp3)
MPEG-4 (mp4/m4a)
MUSE luggage (mpc)
Ogg Vorbis (ogg)
OptimFROG (ofr)
OptimFROG DualStream (ofs)
Speex (spx)
True audio (tta)
Windows Media audio (wma)
WavPack (wv)

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

-EasyTag (For Linux)

Freeware for Linux, for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, MusePack and Monkey's Audio files

http://easytag.sourceforge.net/


Hopefully one of these programs will help you out. If you use a program not on this list, please contact me and I will add it.