Need to Rapidly Tag MP3s outside of iTunes?

There are so many applications available for updating your MP3 file tags, but unfortunately most of them are substandard and not free. In case you don’t know, tags are pieces of information in MP3 files that identify the artist, track title, album and many more details (because it is quite expandable). Some MP3s will even have information about track number on an album, composer, release date, comments and track art. With iTunes (and the tool I’m about to recommend) you can even embed multiple image files into a song.

Tagr is the best tool I’ve found for tagging MP3 files quickly and easily. First, it’s completely free. Well, it’s actually donation ware without a nag screen. If you find it as useful as I have, you’ll paypal the author a donation like I did.

 

Using Tagr is easy. First, start the app. You can do this by the usual method of opening the app directly or you can right-click on an MP3 file and choose open with Tagr.

In the example below, I’ve opened two files with Tagr. Notice that one has no title or artist.

The other file has everything filled in:

This tool is especially helpful with large collections of MP3s where you need to manually update the tags.

Using the Capitalization button is helpful, and copy/paste operations make the whole process quickly.

Finally, be sure to click the Save to Disk button when done so your changes are stored.

Enjoy!