MP3 tagging. Macintosh iTunes.
 

I have a lot of songs on my Mac that have no title. When they were originally ripped from CD's they came up as "Track 1", Track 2", etc. The native iTunes tagger cannot find the titles and label some of them appropriately.

My iPhone has an amazing little program called Shazam that will identify and label audio from any source, radio, TV, even in an elevator. After "listening" for 10 seconds, it tells you the artist, album and even displays the album cover art.

Is there any iTunes compatible program that will tag my hard-to-label MP3's?

Moses - I'm interested in a answer to this too.

But what I find crazy is that, if for example you are able to label on your iphone or ipod, why the hell can't the info sync both ways? So then ext time you sync with itunes all the info you were able to get by Shazam would be entered into iTunes.

Matt

Some music does not have embedded digital tags, yet shazam will analyze the recording and find the artist and title data. Shazam does not apply these labels to your MP3 in your iPhone, however. What we need is a Shazam-like application that will tag MP3s that were not digitally tagged at the time of recording.

BTDT a few years ago. I feel your pain.
I ended up reripping most of the music with bad tags. Only with the hard to replace stuff did I go through and edit the tags manually.

It looks like there are many more tools available now for tagging mp3s. I just searched for "id3 tagger" and came up with a whole bunch.

Also, if you haven't already, you might consider changing the encoding scheme when you rip with I-tunes. The default compression setting left something to be desired as far as quality was concerned, IMO.

out of the 5,000 or more CD's I have ripped to my itunes there are 3 CD's i could not get itunes to label:

Miles Davis - On The Corner , which I bought about 20 years ago
Chet Baker - a greatest hits CD that is only a few years old
Metallica - Kill Em All , purchased 8 years ago

MANY of my CD's are very old - mid 1980's - and itunes located them just fine

I wonder why you are having this problem at all?????

My son burned a CD of some new music. I imported it into iTunes and it appears as Track 01, Track 02, etc. iTunes won't rename them for me.

yea, i assumed that...but im wondering "why" this is happening.

I have not familiarized myself with this function because I have not needed to. I would assume, having ripped so many CD's myself, that if this was common, it would have happened to me more than it has. As I said, 5,000 CD's and only 3 instances. I just gave up because it wasnt a big deal. Im NOT using a MAC by the way. Im using Windows XP

Perhaps trying to figure our why it happens will give a better solution than searching for more software?

Could it be the hardware? an old CD burner with a dirty lens?

Was the CD your son burned, off a CD-R or a commercial CD? Is it on an actual record label or is it his buddy's band?

Is there a function, or preference control, in itunes that you could adjust?

Also - same as a "are you sure there is gas in it?" suggestion, but - are you 100% sure you had internet connection at the moment you ripped it? because itunes must be connected to get the info.... if it wasnt, it will always say "track 1, track 2" etc....

Not burned correctly.

scott - I've found that if I load a cd into itunes that is a compalation I've made, itunes is unable to load the song data.

I'm of the understanding that itunes searches a database for the album name and song list - I always assumed that this was done by song length and number of song on cd, as there's no way that 2 albums have identicle amounts of songs, with the same length for each song, in the same order.

I was doing a burning session the other night and I brought in a CD that shouldn't have tripped iTunes up - but it did. Track 01, Track 02...weird. I ejected the CD and tried it again. Worked like a charm. The first time around I had about 20 other things going on with my laptop. 2nd time I put in the CD, I had much less running.

As an aside, I will posit that Shazam is the greatest technological achievement of humanity.

I may be waaay off on this, but I seem to remember my son telling me that CDs have a small data strip separate from the music files that includes the artist and album info. When you take songs off of a compilation CD, this data strip is lost and it comes in as "track 1", "track 2", etc. It's happened to me also.