Wednesday, October 30, 2013

How To Organize Your MP3 Files

This Tutorial is for everyone who'd rather have their songs organized, rather than having a bunch of Files in 1 folder with difficulty of locating a specific song.


The 1st thing you want to do is go to your Browser (any is fine)

Then you wanna go ahead and go to your search engine and type "MP3tag"

There should be a result on the page with this website: www.mp3tag.de/en/  | Click that link.

Now, navigate to the Download Page. Alternatively, you can click this Link here: http://www.mp3tag.de/en/download.html (This program is only compatible with Windows OS, so if you have something different, you should try searching up a MP3 Editor for your OS)

Now download the setup by clicking "mp3tagv258setup.exe"

After it is finished downloading, install the Program. (The type of installation you want to choose is up to you)

Once it is done installing, open it from the Start Menu or the Desktop.

Now afterwards, click on "File", then click "Add Directory..."

Locate the folder, where all of your MP3 Files are located, and click "Select Folder"

If done properly, you should see all your MP3 Files in a list on the Program.

Click on a MP3, and from there you can edit the Title, Artist, Album, Year, Track, Genre, Etc...

After you're done editing the Song Information, click "File" and click "Save Tag", then move on to the next song.

Lastly, If you have a group of Songs that came from an Album, create a Folder and rename it to the Album's name, then transfer all of the songs that is included in the Album to that specified Folder.

For those having trouble, I will give an example, take a look at this image here: http://i.imgur.com/tK8nZy9.png

As you can see, all of these songs are from the "Dreamchasers 3" Album by Meek Mill, so what I will do is, create a Folder named "Meek Mill - Dreamchasers 3". Then I will transfer all of the songs I have from that Album, to that Folder.

Hope this Tutorial relieved everybody's stress in terms of having proper and organized MP3 Files!



TIPS & TRICKS -

1. If you want to add a cover to your File, you can google search the Album Cover, save it, and right click the white square space in the bottom left of the program, right click it, and click "Add Cover", then locate where you saved the Cover Photo, and select it, once you are done, click "File" and click "Save Tag" once again. (I recommend a Dimension of 500 x 500 or bigger, if you want to use an Album or Song Cover)

2. This is very beneficial if you use iTunes, as it detects the File Names and Albums and organizes it for you based on the information on the MP3.

3. For ease of use, you can right click a MP3 File, and click "Mp3tag" from there. This will open the Program and load the song(s) you highlighted.



More Tutorials Coming Soon!





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