Tagging mp3’s on the mac
12:51 Monday 9 Jul 07
It’s been a constant irritation to find that on the Mac I couldn’t tag mp3’s direct from CDDB. Someone will pop up and say iTunes will do it but it won’t unless it first saw the CD, you have that CD or you bought it from the iTunes store. I tried several utilities which said they could do it and they all failed.
The thing is that there are so many different entries in the CDDB database that any tagging program must give you a way to go find what you want. Example: I have a UB40 album that I ripped and it’s now 01.mp3, 02.mp3 etc. For some reasons a CDDB query didn’t find it. So for a program that doesn’t allow an alternate form of data entry that program is junk.
Parallels. That’s what you want. Get Parallels. Get the Shared folders going and put some music into that or just share /Music. From Windows, now go get the CDDB MP3 Tool. Run that tool on the folder. If it’s not there, use the link and go find directly in the music database. Get the required url and execute the program. Bingo - lots of correctly tagged files ready for wherever they need to go.
It’s easy, it’s free (the tool anyway) and it has no dependencies.
