Mp3 Tag Express offers much more than meets the eye. Its tag-related functionality alone is enough to make it stand out from other similar tools, but what makes this application a serious contender is its ability to search the Web looking for metadata to fill in the blanks in your files. Its automated Batch Look-Up process is capable of tagging your entire music collection in one go.
The tag editing process can be performed either manually or through the program’s various automated tools. The feature that will open your eyes wide – it did open mine – is the automated Web search. You can select any number of audio files and tell the program to search for their metadata on the Internet, replacing all their tags with the relevant information. This includes not only the usual suspects (artist, title, album, genre, etc.), but also the artwork, the lyrics of the song, and even the name of its composers. Of course, the program will need some useful clues to retrieve consistent data, and it will look for them in the track’s file name. Thus, it is advised that at least the title of the song is part of it. Not all hits will be a hundred per cent accurate, but it is always better to correct a few of them than editing hundreds or thousands of files individually.
Together with this impressive functionality, Mp3 Tag Express also offers you most of the functionality you would expect to find in any ID3 tag editor. It comes with various text-editing tools to normalize, replace, number, clone, and trim both file names and ID3 tags. The lyrics editor allows you to paste or type in the corresponding lyrics, as well as to look for them on the Web. The program’s built-in audio player includes a useful graphic equalizer, and gives you information about the bit and frequency rates of the track you are listening to. To top it all off, the program offers you a comprehensive CD ripper that not only extracts the audio tracks of your audio CDs, but it also converts them into MP3 (if so desired), retrieves information about the disc from the Internet, and tags and renames all the audio files on the fly.
The best way of acknowledging Mp3 Tag Express’ capabilities is by making use of its 7-day trial. Novice users may find its overwhelming list of features and automated processes a bit intimidating at first – do not panic, its interface is much friendlier to use than it looks at first glance.
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