If you have a large collection of songs on your laptop, you might have surely wished one day to add tags to those songs to make them more meaningful.
This would have also been helpful in refining searches as well as correcting any erroneous metadata. If this is the case indeed, then this article is all that you need to solve the jinx.
The need to fix various kinds of tags e.g. Album, Title, Year etc becomes all the more imperative if you’re uploading the song online. Keep in mind that editing metadata isn’t as simple as renaming a song.
As far as renaming a single song/ collection of songs as well as editing any metadata related to them is concerned in the Windows platform, Easy File Renamer is your best bet. It performs these tasks meticulously and at a super brisk pace.
Rename Songs and Edit their Metadata in Windows
Easy File Renamer adheres to Clean Software Association Guidelines
Solutions for Windows
- Rename a Single Song
(a) Simply select a song and press F2
(b) The name of the selected song file will be highlighted
(c) Enter the new name and hit Enter - Bulk Renaming of Songs
(a) Select multiple files by pressing Ctrl and clicking each file you want to select
(b) Again, press F2 to rename them
(c) You will type a single name and all the selected files will get that same as well as a number (in ascending order) added to their filename as a suffix, e.g. song 1, song 2, song 3 and so forth - Make a Music folder
(a) Create a new folder anywhere in your computer
(b) Right-click it and select Properties
(c) Click the Customize tab
(d) Now select Music from the Optimize this folder for dropdown menu
(e) Click Apply | OK - Change Metadata of Songs
After adding a song to the folder you can change its metadata including Album artist, Genre, Rating and so on. To do so:
(a) Select Details from the View panel
(b) This will bring up multiple fields for each song in that folder
(c) You can easily edit those fields by double-clicking on them and entering in new data - Changing MetaData Through the Song’s Properties
(a) Just right-click a song and select Properties
(b) Switch to the Details tab
(c) Now you can easily edit the metadata of your liking
(d) Click Apply | OK once when you’re done - Use a Software to Rename Songs and Add Tags
There are many software solutions available to help rename songs easily. One such handy solution is Easy File Renamer that only changes filenames easily but also helps you edit all the metadata without any fuss.
(a) Download and install the software
(b) Now open the software and click the Music Fixer tab
(c) Choose appropriately between MP3 Files and Load from iTunes
(d) Editing metadata shan’t be an issue from there onwards
Solutions for Mac
You can edit metadata for songs stored on a Mac in an even simpler method as compared to Windows.
- Edit Song Info
(a) Open iTunes and locate the song (for which you wish to edit the metadata for)
(b) Click Get info and now edit the Name, Track Number and so on - Edit Album Info
(a) Click on an album in iTunes
(b) Right-click it and select Get Info
(c) Now you can easily edit the song, artist, album and all related fields
(d) Click OK once you’re done - Find an Album Folder in iTunes Library
You can send over an Album to someone else on iTunes and get all the metadata sorted out. To do so, this is the path you need to follow
(a) Go to Macintosh HD | users | (username) | music | iTunes | iTunes music | artist’s name