Program to search for mp3 ID3 tag?

[Mr Bob]

I am looking for a program that will search through a folder and all sub folders, in hopes of finding all mp3s that do NOT contain an ID3 tag.

I can't seem to find any software that does this though.

 

[fbrdphreak]

http://www.download.com/TagScanner/3000-2141_4-10354245.html

Great program, makes organizing my music so much easier

 

[Mr Bob]

I was using dBpowerAMP, but it fails with large #s of files.

I installed that program, but don't see a way to find mp3s that do NOT contain the ID3 tag.

 

[fbrdphreak]

I just made a copy of an MP3 in a folder of MP3's. Loaded TagScanner, went to Tag Editor section, pointed to that folder. Deleted the tag from the song copy, and it listed the song (amongst all the others) as having no title, no artist, and the other fields were blank. If you sort by any of the fields in particular, all the "no artist" "no title" "blank" songs in that folder will be grouped together with the sort; thus allowing you to easily update them (as easy as I've ever seen anyway). From there, if a group of songs has the same artist/album/year/etc you can highlight multiple entries and edit common fields at the same time. Then you can go back and input specific data.

Also there is some CDDB info retrieval feature, but I've never used it.

 

[Mr Bob]

But the problem is that there is no way to search for the songs that do not have an ID3 tag. Putting your mouse over each song works for a handful of songs, but when you have over a couple thousand, it becomes a pretty big problem.

 

[fbrdphreak]

It seems to me if that you point TagScanner to a folder full of MP3s (recurse subdirectories also), then sort by any one of those fields that indicate there is no ID3 tag (for instance, album shows up as blank), then it will group all the non-tagged MP3's together for easy access. Now if you want something that scans your hard drive, lists tag-less MP3s, and has a giant flashing banner saying THESE MP3'S DO NOT HAVE ID3 TAGS, well then you're gonna have to write your own program (which wouldn't be hard actually, esp if you got source code to an existing MP3 organization program). In the meantime, this should help you sort through a list of MP3s and easily identify those without tags; take it or leave it.

 

[Mr Bob]

"It seems to me if that you point TagScanner to a folder full of MP3s (recurse subdirectories also), then sort by any one of those fields that indicate there is no ID3 tag (for instance, album shows up as blank), then it will group all the non-tagged MP3's together for easy access."
- That should work I think.

Thanks