With the large number of streaming audio services we have today, the use of MP3 files may be much less common than a few years ago. But we are sure that there are many of you who still carry songs in this format on your mobile or favorite player. It is also possible that you use it to play them in the car or on a computer that does not have an Internet connection. Whatever the reason you continue to use MP3 files, you probably like to have them in good order. And a very good way to do it is to fill in the tags or tags of the files .
In addition, the tags of an MP3 file will also allow us to see the information of the song that we are playing when we do it in a player, such as the car equipment. But do you know how to change the information on the label if it is wrong? Or how to fill it in if, as is often the case, the MP3 file does not contain any information? We are going to tell you how to do it both for an individual file and for a large number of files simultaneously .
How to put a tag or tag to a single MP3 file
If we want to put the information of a single file we can do it manually and without using any type of application. All we have to do is click on the MP3 file with the right mouse button and select Properties .
Once we are in the properties screen we will have to go to the Details tab . It will be here where you will see all the data of the song, from the title of the song to the interpreters, the album, the year and even the genre.
The vast majority of these data can be modified directly from this screen. We simply click on them and write the correct ones . Then click on Apply and OK and that's it.
How to put a tag or tag to many MP3 files at the same time
But what if we want, for example, to modify the data of an entire album? Or from several albums? We can go one by one, but it can become quite a tedious task. Luckily, on the Internet we can find software for practically any task that occurs to us.
To change or create the tags of multiple MP3 files we can use the Mp3tag tool. It is a small free software that barely weighs 3 MB and that will help us to edit metadata of audio files .
Supports batch editing of ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, iTunes MP4, WMA, Vorbis comments and APE tags for multiple files at once. On the other hand, it allows searching online databases such as Discogs, MusicBrainz or Freedb . This will allow us to get the labels automatically and even download the album covers from the Internet.
The operation of the application is very simple. If we want to change the labels of several files at the same time, we can load the entire folder where we have them saved. The files appear in the central panel and as we select them we will see the data on the left side of the screen.
If we want to change the same data from multiple files, all we have to do is select all of them in the right panel and change the information in the left . This can be used, for example, to put the name of the album and the year, which will be the same for all songs.
If we want to search for the data in an online database, we just have to load the files and click on the option "Label sources" . Here we select the source in which we want to search and it will show us the localized information.
The application allows us to perform many more actions than simply looking for the labels. We can create playlists, rename files with the name that appears on the label and much more.