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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: August 04, 2009
- Total Downloads: 568,367
- Downloads last week: 1,662
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 151 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 5.1.550 includes Tag fields mixer - format, extract and move any tag fields data to other fields and Import tag data from text files.
What's new in this version:
Version 5.1.550 includes Tag fields mixer - format, extract and move any tag fields data to other fields and Import tag data from text files.
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Version: TagScanner 5.1.550
Pros: Powerful app, fast. Definitely on my list of best freeware.
Cons: Interface takes getting used to (not typical windows style). Make copies of your tunes and alter them first - until you get used to Tagscanner.
Summary: Love it. If you prefer self-managing your music files, hard to beat this. Much prefer this to TuneUp
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Version: TagScanner 5.1.550
"The BEST Tag editing software I know of...."
Pros: Everything you can think of with regards to editing tags is taken care of here. Rename files based on tags, vice versa, online tag information search, manual editing, AND MUCH MORE. I find this a little more easier to understand too!
Cons: Although many might find this difficult, this one is very much better than the older versions! I have nothing to complain against this one, considering how other softwares in this category perform!! :D
Summary: When you point at the icons, it would give you information on their functions in the bottom bar of the window, so that is one way of learning the software.
Once you have unveiled the secrets of this baby, this is the best and fastest way of up... read more >> -
Version: TagScanner 5.1.550
"So far the best mp3 tag editor I've used"
Pros: It has the option of editing both IDTag 1 and 2. It even edits tags on damaged mp3 files and allows for easy batch editing of all fields. Shows a preview before renaming files using the tag info, which helps alot in avoiding mistakes. Totally free!
Cons: It's interface is not intuitive, but if you have used other similar programs you'll have no problem customizing its settings.
Summary: An excellent piece of software that facilitates the usually laborious task of editing mp3 tags. Totally recomended.
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