Mass ID3 Tag/File Renamer for music files

[Connoisseur]

So I have a pretty old collection of music that i've acquired over several years and am just now getting to properly name and tag them. The issue was that a lot of them have inconsistent naming and many of them didn't have tagging. Thus, I imported the file listing into SQL and spent a good deal of time pulling out the Artist/Track Name based on the filenames as well as known info. Now that I have this info (full path, filename, artist, title), I want to be able to:
1) Rename the files according to Artist - Track.type
2) Apply the proper Artist and Track title to the ID3 tags for every file.

The issue with renaming the files is that some of the titles and artists have forbidden characters (/,\,<,>,: etc.). in order to name them, i'd have to replace these characters with accepted characters which would probably throw off the tagging. Any suggestions on a mass tagger that can take an input from a table or a text file? Any suggestions on renaming the files?

 

[The J]

I like the program TagScanner, which can be found here: http://www.xdlab.ru/en/

It says that it can export files to Excel or to MySQL, but I don't know about importing.

 

[Markbnj]

You can roll your own with a relatively small amount of coding using Taglib-Sharp (there's also a C++ version). That would probably give you the most control over naming and how your tags are written. Cleaning up text is a big issue in digital content management. I work on a digital music CMS for a major media company, and you should see some of the strings that come in for classical albums. It's a nightmare.

 

[Connoisseur]

Originally posted by: Markbnj
You can roll your own with a relatively small amount of coding using Taglib-Sharp (there's also a C++ version). That would probably give you the most control over naming and how your tags are written. Cleaning up text is a big issue in digital content management. I work on a digital music CMS for a major media company, and you should see some of the strings that come in for classical albums. It's a nightmare.

Thanks for the suggestion! I'm not much of a programmer but I figure this is a great start and it's probably a nifty project to work on.

 

[Titan]

The Godfather can get the job done too.

 

[BoberFett]

TagLib#, cool. Thanks for the link Mark.