Undoubtedly, every user who stores huge music collections on his computer very often organizes them for more comfortable use. Many people install special organizing programs for this, but sometimes they may not fully satisfy the requirements for such collections. Okay, if it only concerned sorting files into folders on your hard drive or arranging them in the playlist of an installed software player. What should you do if the name of a track or artist is displayed in the form of incomprehensible hieroglyphs or a set of symbols? What should you do when you want to save all your files as a randomly edited playlist or even export a list of songs for printing? How to add a picture for an album cover? For such purposes, you can use the most interesting and unique of its kind program Mp3tag. Let's see how to use this application further. But first, let's briefly look at what it can do and briefly look at installing the program in a Windows environment.
What kind of program is Mp3tag, and what is it for?
Many users, based on the name of this application, apparently can immediately draw a conclusion about its main purpose. Indeed, this program was originally created to provide users with the ability to edit ID3 tags of all versions, which represent brief information about the artist, the title of the composition, its number in the album or playlist, the year of recording, the technical characteristics of the audio, which would be sewn directly into the sound file. However, the described utility is also at the same time a player (an audio to MP3 converter, unfortunately, is not provided), and, if you like, a kind of tool that allows you to obtain the necessary data from databases located on the Internet.
Introduction.
Many people carry portable MP3 players with them, listening to music on the go or while waiting.
MP3, being the most popular audio format, has many undeniable advantages over others. For example, music files are relatively small in size and are supported by almost any player; The audio file itself contains information about the artist, album, title, and the cover and lyrics of the song can also be stored inside the file. Album art is usually stored in that album's music folder and may be hidden. It is displayed on the player when playing an album song, but if we move the song file to another folder or, for example, to another portable device, the cover will no longer be shown, since it is no longer in the folder with the song.
In this case, a special field in the tags of MP3 files will help. an album image into it , which will be displayed during playback along with the song title, artist name and other information.
You can upload cover art for MP3 files using mp3Tag Pro.
Main features of the application
If we talk about the main tools that are available in this application, it will not be possible to describe absolutely everything purely physically. However, among the most significant features that any user may need in the process of reorganizing their own music collections, the following can be highlighted separately:
- Full control over the content of ID3v1, v2, VMA, APEv2 and MP4 tags with Unicode support;
- support for editing built-in and adding your own album covers;
- the ability to download song texts and save them to a text file;
- quick renaming of audio files based on information from tags;
- export tags to HTML, XML, CSV and RTF formats;
- import information from online databases, including freedb;
- viewing information about audio parameters;
- creating playlists in standard M3U format, etc.
Brief information on installing the program
Now let's briefly look at the main points of installing the Mp3tag application in Russian. There are two main versions available for download on the Internet. One is completely free and is suitable for most ordinary users, the second (Pro) is designed for experienced users and has slightly more advanced capabilities, but after installation the application will need to be activated by purchasing a special key.
The installation process for the free version does not involve anything particularly complicated (you can only additionally select a portable installation or add application commands to the Explorer context menu).
For the Pro version everything looks even simpler. You need to go through a series of standard steps, accept the agreement and wait for the installation process to complete.
How to use Mp3tag Pro and the free version of the application: basic basics
So, the program is installed. Now is the time to see how to use Mp3tag in practice. The interface of both programs is similar.
However, if we talk about how to use Mp3tag as a free utility, you will first need to change the default music folder. In the second application, directories with audio files will be shown immediately.
The rest is simple! Select the desired track, change the necessary information fields in the corresponding menus, including even the name of the track being edited, its tempo (BPM), serial number in the album or in the future playlist. Apparently, no one will have any problems with this.
But an interesting feature of both applications is the playback of a selected composition or several tracks directly in the program, although, if desired, you can configure the use of an external player.
In addition, for clearer organization there is a built-in “Number Assignment Wizard”.
To simplify working with tags, it is also sometimes advisable to use special autocomplete tools.
How to Add Album Artwork to Tracks on iPhone and iPad Using iTunes: 3 Methods
Sometimes songs in your favorite iTunes are accompanied not by a beautiful album picture, but by a simple gray icon with a drawn melody. This means that the cover will not appear on iPhone and iPad when synced. How to add it so as not to injure your sense of beauty. How to do it?
Ask iTunes to do it
Not everyone knows that you can add album art to a song using a simple command from the iTunes menu.
1. Open iTunes . 2. From the menu, select File -> Media Library -> Get Album Artwork . 3. In the window that appears, click “Get album cover” again. Here you can select the “ Don’t ask again ” option - then next time the search will start automatically.
Done - album covers have been found.
Sometimes, however, even Apple - it may happen that the covers are missing several tracks:
What to do?
“Manually” adding cover art for one song
1. Find the desired cover on Google using a search query. 2. Save the picture to any folder on your computer. 3. Right- click on the track , select Details , then Cover . 4. In the lower left corner of the menu, click on Add cover . 5. In the window that appears, select the location of the saved image and click on “ Open ”.
Ready!
“Manually” adding cover art for several songs from an album at once
Apple has very smart people - but in iTunes 12 , they somehow complicated the way to assign cover art to multiple songs from the same album. However, this can still be done, and this is the most important thing.
We still search for cover art for songs on Google and save it to our computer. But then everything is done a little differently:
1. Select all right -click on the icon of one of them . 2. the Option (Alt) key . 3. Select Details. Notice how different the interface has become? This is the GUI from previous versions of iTunes. 4. Open Finder and drag the cover into the appropriate “square.”
5. Done - the cover is installed!
See also:
- Apple has updated the design of the App Store and iTunes Store in iTunes 12.
- U2's album "Songs of Innocence" has been downloaded by more than 26 million iTunes users.
- iPod owners have filed a class action lawsuit against Apple over the linking of players to the iTunes online store.
- How to Delete U2 Album from iTunes and Music App on iPhone and iPad.
November 8, 2014 Tags: iFaq, iTunes, Mac secrets, OS X, OS X Yosemite, Apple News.
- MF
Thank you for point 1, I used to do everything by hand) - https://vk.com/id32686251 Bogdan Serdyukov
Is there an option to change the “title” cover for the artist? There used to be such an option, but now I can’t find it.
- https://twitter.com/itinerant_artis Scum.
Having added all the covers to the songs and albums, I transferred everything to the iPhone, but for some reason the covers are not there everywhere and the name of the site from which I downloaded the songs appeared. Help me please.
- https://vk.com/id329089605 Marina Liss
Can't you do this on an iPhone??
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How to work in Mp3tag with additional tools?
In each of the programs, you can import the necessary data from databases located on remote servers on the Internet. To do this, just select the desired item from the menus presented on the main panel or click the corresponding button.
Speaking about how to use the professional version of Mp3tag, it is worth noting that among the buttons for quick access to editing tools there are buttons for downloading lyrics (text of songs) and covers, which greatly simplifies the implementation of such procedures.
Through the file menu, a list of files (after editing the information fields or without it) can be saved in the form of a playlist, which can then be easily opened in any currently known software player. If number assignment is used, the tracks will be played in the exact order in which they were presented in one of the installed programs.
Finally, you can save a complete list of tags using the export function, after activating which you simply select your preferred output file format and specify the location to save it.
How to change the cover of a playlist in VK?
The process of installing a new picture is not too different from the procedure described above. To change the cover of a playlist in VK, you will need:
- Open the audio section on the social network.
- Switch to the tab with a list of saved tracklists.
- Find a suitable album.
- Hover your cursor over it and find the small pencil symbol.
- Click on the mentioned symbol to open the editing section.
- Change the background by deleting the old one and replacing it with another (uploading a picture from your computer).
- Save your changes.
After which you can show the updated album to your friends. By the way, to ensure that the update is not only cosmetic, users can add new songs to it or delete old, boring compositions.
Results
How to use Mp3tag seems a little clear. It remains to say a few words about the overall impression of both utilities, based on numerous user reviews on the Internet. Yes, indeed, both programs look good. Despite the fact that the Pro version is paid and more advanced, the average user, in general, does not need it. Naturally, many are pleased with the possibility of using applications as the most common software player, but absolutely everyone who has used this software in practice cites the lack of an audio to MP3 converter as the most important disadvantage. If only we could add it, then the programs wouldn’t have a price!
