Before You Edit ID3 Tags. Before showing you how to edit ID3 tags automatically and 3 best ID3 tag editors, I would let you know What is ID3 tag.ID3 is a metadata container most often used in conjunction with the MP3 audio file format.

Made the move to a Mac after decades of PCs and love it but I'm having real problems with my MP3s. There was a great little tool called ID3Kill (Win) that would let you batch strip ID3 tags from MP3s. I found a slew of tools for OS X that would let me edit them but none seem geared toward simply stripping them out. Can anyone suggest a tool? I'd ask for a 'good' applications to do the job but right now I'd settle for anything.

Heck, I'll even go command line if needed. Thanks much in advance, Jason.

Made the move to a Mac after decades of PCs and love it but I'm having real problems with my MP3s. There was a great little tool called ID3Kill (Win) that would let you batch strip ID3 tags from MP3s. I found a slew of tools for OS X that would let me edit them but none seem geared toward simply stripping them out. Can anyone suggest a tool? I'd ask for a 'good' applications to do the job but right now I'd settle for anything. Heck, I'll even go command line if needed.

Thanks much in advance, Jason. Click to expand.if the tags are correct, you can easily find a song based on artist, song name, both, or in combination with other tags too. It is no worse than requiring that the file names are correct, but substantially more flexible. It sounds like a utitlity to update all the tags based on the file name would solve the problem. Although i can't suggest a specific tool offhand, i'm pretty sure there are tools that can parse file names such as 'artist - title' and put the appropriate info in the appropriate tag. Click to expand.Not sure what's going on. Free file format converter for mac download.

This is what I'm getting. Macintosh-4:~/Music/mp3s jason$ /Applications/StripID3.app/Contents/ MacOS/StripID3. Click to expand.I can see why it might appear that way. I type at 104wpm.

This means I can rename files pretty bloody fast. With ID3 tags you have to open the editor and essentially scan the data for what is wrong.

Not only is this more cumbersome by having to eyeball fields and determine which are incorrect but it also requires that I navigate fields, either by tabbing or using the mouse. It is far, faster -- and not by a trivial amount -- for me to simply rename using a [artist] - [album] - [track] - [song] schema. Click to expand.Just got no need for 'em.

Unfortunately, a lot of programs use the ID3 tag data and so I'd wind up with songs being sorted in ways that weren't predictable (or even findable). Rip the tags out and then every song is easily findable by artist - song name. Jason[/QUOTE] Please give examples of where your songs were not sorted in a predictable manner or were not being able to be found. You can mass edit the ID3 tags so your tunes will always be displayed in the manner you want. It sounds like your killing the goose who laid golden eggs, because you only wanted to make an omelet.