Editing MP3s

[Chips]

What's the best program for editing the details of MP3 files, including things like album covers?

 

[Firewatcher]

I use VLC media player, it is fine for my needs, but Audacity is said to be more full featured and is also open-source although I havent used it and not sure if it still supported on Windows 7. For Album art, I simply copy image in my browser from various Free Album Art sites, and paste the Album Art Image to the respective Album file in Windows Media Player. Pete

 

[dg1261]

What's the best program for editing the details of MP3 files, including things like album covers?

If you're talking about editing only the metadata (i.e., not the audio itself), try MP3tag. The same download can either do a permanently install or a portable install, and even the latest version still works with Win7.

If you want to also edit the audio (volume levels, equalization, et al) along with the metadata, use Audacity. But if all you're doing is editing the metadata, I'd recommend MP3tag instead because I think Audacity might unnecessarily re-encode the audio every time you save. Also, Audacity is only good for one MP3 at a time, whereas MP3tag can batch edit a whole bunch of MP3s, which is handy if you're changing a whole album's worth of MP3s to show consistent metadata.

 

[Chips]

If you're talking about editing only the metadata (i.e., not the audio itself), try MP3tag. The same download can either do a permanently install or a portable install, and even the latest version still works with Win7.

If you want to also edit the audio (volume levels, equalization, et al) along with the metadata, use Audacity. But if all you're doing is editing the metadata, I'd recommend MP3tag instead because I think Audacity might unnecessarily re-encode the audio every time you save. Also, Audacity is only good for one MP3 at a time, whereas MP3tag can batch edit a whole bunch of MP3s, which is handy if you're changing a whole album's worth of MP3s to show consistent metadata.

Thanks. It's just to fill in the songs' details for playing them on my car stereo.