I have a large mp3 collection, and I need to edit the tags in a
certain way, but it's a near impossible task to do by hand.
Here's what I needed to do:

I need a way to change the artist tag on an mp3 to the name of
whatever folder it is in, and i need to do this as a batch process for
about 800 folders containing roughly 3000 mp3's. Any ideas?

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Request for Question Clarification by endo-ga on 02 Dec 2004 17:32 PST

Hi,

You can do what you want with dBpowerAMP and the Tag from Filename codec on:

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/codec-central.htm

However it requires the Power Pack, which costs $14 to register.

Please let me know if that is ok.

Thanks.
endo

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Clarification of Question by skyhookedx-ga on 03 Dec 2004 18:20 PST

Hello again, I was able to use MP3 Tag Tools to rename all the id3
tags based on the filenames. Thanks for the help!

I use this program which is also FREE, it's called Mp3 Tag Tools. And
you can pretty much do anything you want with ID3 tags v.1.1 and
v.2.x.

It says in your question that the folder containing the music is named
with the artist, Mp3 Tag Tools can scan every file in the folder and
rename the tag accordingly to the artist's name of that particular
folder.

Mp3 Tag Tools: http://massid3lib.sourceforge.net/

If your music folders contain whole albums, you can also try
MediaMonkey which can retrieve CD information from Gracenote.com and
can have it automatically rename the tags in the files.

MediaMonkey: http://www.mediamonkey.com/

Saving people money, one question at a time.
-Syztemik

There is another program that is free, powerful, and can rename mp3
files in mass.  It is a little difficult to learn how to use at first,
but once you know it, its great.  Its called The Godfather (seriously)
and you can find free installs and user guides easily around the Net.