- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: March 07, 2009
- Total Downloads: 545,364
- Downloads last week: 1,470
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 150 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Digital music is all well and good, but who wants to type in album and artist information for each track? With the free TagScanner, you don't have to. This efficient and powerful tag editor lets you edit metadata automatically as well as by hand, both for individual files and file batches.
The automatic tagging feature is most impressive. Although it can hit up online databases such as FreeDB, Discogs, and Amazon like many other auto-tagging apps, it can also generate tags from file and folder names--something many others can't. It works in the opposite direction, too, generating filenames from tags.
TagScanner has an elegant and orderly interface, and lets you preview filenames before applying changes. The only catch is that you'll need to spend some time learning the program's file- and tag-naming language. However, if you have thousands of music tracks crying out for organization, that's a small price to pay.
Publisher's description
From X-Development :TagScanner is a multifunction program for organizing and managing your music collection. It can edit tags of mostly state-of-the-art audio formats, rename files based on the tag information, generate tag information from filenames, and perform any transformations of the text from tags and filenames. Also you may get album info via online databases like freedb or Amazon. Supports ID3v1, ID3v2, Vorbis comments, APEv2, WindowsMedia and MP4(iTunes) tags. Powerful TAG editor with batch functions and special features. Playlist maker with ability to export playlists to HTML or Excel. Easy-to-use interface. Built-in player.
Version 5.0 build 530 includes completely redesigned Filename-to-TAG processor,Improved:Work with BPM field in all modules,Fix:Calculation of the duration of very long mp3 tracks.
What's new in this version:
Version 5.0 build 530 includes completely redesigned Filename-to-TAG processor,Improved:Work with BPM field in all modules,Fix:Calculation of the duration of very long mp3 tracks.
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User reviews of TagScanner 5.0.530
- Average user rating: 4.2 stars out of 150 votes
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Version: TagScanner 5.0.530
"Doesn't seem to help iTunes organization"
Pros: After a few minutes, this turned out to be a very easy to use program.
Cons: Doesn't seem to help organize iTunes.
Summary: After using this on about 1000 songs, I imported the songs to a new iTunes library. Many of the tags were not displayed, such as album artist and year. This could be blamed on iTunes. Whatever the case, this did not solve my problem. Updating fi... read more >>
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Version: TagScanner 5.0.530
"Not surprised to see it as a top ranked music mngmnt ap"
Pros: This software has top ranks among music management software downloads & for a good reason: it?s a great ap.
Cons: Takes a bit of time to get used. Not a big problem though. If you?re a new user it?s best to first experiment with duplicate audio files. Otherwise you?ll be sorry. The software is great. Just needs experimenting first before editing actual files.
Summary: This March 2009 version is better than the previous one. I first used it to edit "stubborn" gospel CDs that couldn't load album info that would be used in the ID3 tags of the MP3 converted files.
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Version: TagScanner 5.0.530
Pros: finally a program that can read the folder name the mp3 is in to add it to a tag
Cons: nothing major
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Version: TagScanner 5.0.530
Pros: - playlist
- easy tags
- easy filenames
- can change everything easy by hand or automated
- quite intuitive interface.Cons: - can't change lay out playlist
Summary: very good software, top of the bill and totally free
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Version: TagScanner 5.0.530
"Awesome, the best complement for mp3 library."
Pros: Rename all your mp3 archives with the ID3, move them where you want. If you use winamp (autotag feature) is the best complement, great for netbooks.
Cons: None after 2 months of use.
Summary: Excellent for use with winamp.
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