Windows 10: Batch Append Mp3 Tags

Does anyone know of any software, or hack, or any other way that will allow me to batch append mp3 metadata tags to about 1000 mp3 files.

There are 1000 songs, different titles, different artists, different genres. Lets say all of these are pop songs but for whatever reason my tagger software won't put the pop tag in the genre field.

What I would like to do is append that one tag [Pop] to all these songs without otherwise disturbing the genre tags that are already there.

So if prior to appending:
Song 1 - Funk; Alternative, Retro
Song 2 - Alternative; Metal; Adult

Afterwards I should be left with:

Song 1 - Funk; Alternative; Retro; Pop
Song 2 - Alternative; Metal; Adult; Pop

I've found a couple solutions but all those will allow me to to do is replace everything in the Genre field.

So after conversion what I end up with is
Song 1 - Pop
Song 2 - Pop

That's not what I want, as I've lost all the other tags in the field.

Thanks in advance for any help at all.

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Artists not showing in Music+Videos on WP8

The mp3 tags on those songs do not contain the artist information. Get an mp3 tagging program and fix the artist mp3 tag.

 

Anna N8 Album splits?

Are the ID3 tags correct in the music files you have transferred?



The music player sorts the music based on the information found in the ID3 tags in the mp3 files.



I would suggest you use a tool like Mp3Tag and make sure the stored information in your music files are correct. You can find the software here: Mp3tag - the universal Tag Editor (ID3v2, MP4, OGG, FLAC, ...)



you can edit the id3 tags in Nokia Suite as well... but I prefer Mp3Tag because it allows for batch edits and that speed things up if you have lots of albums

 

Mp3tag works well.
Mp3tag - Download

 

Yes.. with mp3tag installed, select all the files your interested in, then rt click, click MP3tag.

MP3tag's window should open and those files should be listed.
Now in that window, select all the files you want to change.
You will see <keep> in the fields in the left pane.
So change just what you want to change, then save.

 

Thanks for this suggestion guys.

When I try mp3tag it doesn't append the tag. What I leave in the genre field is < keep > ; Pop

Using the examples above again, what I get is:

Song 1 - < keep > ; Pop
Song 2 - < keep > ; Pop

Instead of:
Song 1 - Funk; Alternative; Retro; Pop
Song 2 - Alternative; Metal; Adult; Pop

Is there something I'm not doing?

 

<keep> says don't change

I'm not certain, but you could try this on one file
%genre%;Pop

Here's the Mp3tag online help Mp3tag Help - Content
I think you'll find something that meets your needs - I don't use the command line or scripting, but that might be what you need to use instead of the GUI. Regular expressions or variables should be your focus.

 

Have you actually a. over written the <keep> text with your new text? b. Clicked the save button and got a confirmatory message such as
'Saved tags in 4 files'?

Some screenshots would help if this still doesn't work for you.
It does for me...*Smile

 

dal, I think Platypus wants to append Pop to the existing genre of many files

I haven't found a way to do that ... yet.

 

You got it Slarty

That's exactly what I want to do. Given how long mp3 tagging has been around, I'm surprised that this isn't a common function, or that more people haven't requested it. Haven't seen anyone on any other forums asking for it either.

 

I'll be honest with you - there's a lot of reading on the Mp3tag help that probably has the answer. It might be in the command line options, or export, or regular expressions. I don't have first hand experience in what you want to do (otherwise, I would tell you *Wink)

To be perfectly honest, I'm not certain Mp3tag can do that - but having read enough of the help, I believe Mp3tag can do what you want. It might be a few steps ... export edit import or it is a single operation that I have never used.

Read through the online help and try things on a copy of a few files.

Or ... another member might drop by and give you the method in Mp3tag or provide another software package.

I'll keep an eye on your thread if you find something in Mp3tag help and want another pair of eyes on it.
I'd like to know too, so I might dig deeper, but for now, this is your research project *Cool

Best of luck,

Bill
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Mp3 organizer - Tag&Rename
can do what you want. However, it's a paid version or you can try a 30 day-trial version.
You can export the meta data to an excel file. globally Modify/Append the appropriate tag (genre in your case) then import it back.

Here's a short video:
[youtube]aqSQYB3k978[/youtube]

 

mp3tag: Ok,appending seems to be answered in their forum:
Actions - Mp3tag Forums

Sorry I misunderstood. Just did a search for
mp3tag append

 

ROTFLMAO - I thought I did that search - guess not *Wink

That answer is fairly close to my guess

It's a bit tricky but it works

Select one file in Mp3tag

Open the Actions menu
Select Actions
- opens Action groups window

Press the new action button on the right (box with star)
Name the Action group: addPopToGenre
(or anything you want)

The Actions dialog window opens (looks a lot like Action groups)
Press the New button on the right (box with star)

Select action type: Format value (drop down list)

Format value dialog box opens
Field: GENRE (drop down list)
Format String: %genre% Pop

This applies the change to the selected file.

You can apply this to any file from the Actions Menu
- select the file(s) you want to add Pop to the Genre
- select addPopToGenre from the list of actions
- save the changes

dal, you get +50 reps if I could... hope I can give you at least one.

 

You guys are the bees bleeping knees!

Thank you so much!

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