A tag contains info on a track. Genre, year, album etv

Thanks for the comment, but just WHY is it so important to spend so much time on it? I mean, for myself, I can care less about any other info of a track other than Title, Artist, Genre, and BPM. But I've read where some guys are spending extraordinary amounts of time re-writing tags so I'm just trying to make sure it's nothing I'm "glossing" over as being non-important when maybe it really is. Feel me?

Read up on what a smart crate is and that will help to see how tags help.

Tagging is important to quickly find the right tracks at the right time and is very important if you have a large library. The year tag is important to me because i play old and new music and i can make smart playlists to group all my old tracks in one playlist rather them getting mixed up with all my new stuff also you can write in the comment section something like floorfillers and have all your big hits in there and group them in a smart playlist too there is all kinds of things you can do and trust me it is very beneficial

I too have an extensive library (84k files) and have mostly Old School music but with me, I already have most of my music categorized this way: Old School Dance, Old School Club, Old School Slow Jams,..etc. So whenever I setup a crate I usually just rename it in accordance to the said genre. Whenever I upload my crate, I simply adjust the BPM column to show tracks from lowest to highest bpm and choose my tracks accordingly. The only real problem I'm having is that I have a great deal of tracks that have the Artist's name or maybe a track number ( track_02) listed first so I'm having to MANUALLY go in and edit all the info. So I guess that's why I'm trying to fully understand the tagging process so as to maybe become a better organizer.

to get rid of the track number try something like tag and rename or something similar,you can do a whole batch of tracks in one go rather than doing them individually.

Good Stuff! Just a quick question that I couldnt find answer to when I read the info on Tag & Rename software: Are any modifications that I make with the program are they permanent? I have all my music on external hard drive.

Yes they are permenent,but in the program there is usually an undo button in case you make a mistake but as with anything be careful and double check before you save your changes.it will work with an external.

@ BIGG BEAR Appreciate the help bro!

You're welcome thanks

If you have a mac i recommend metadatics its really good can also add artwork to tracks too from the net

Thanks but not using Mac.

Media monkey is quite useful/powerful on the non Mac side of things....

If I'm not mistaken it has previews of the actions before you make them so you can.... Well... Preview

Actually uploading my tracks on there now,..gonna be a while though :) Thanks

I wanted to use that but I own a mac and when I downloaded the Mac port that they have on their website it doesn't even load up and just bounces in the dock

Try using wine bottler/wine skin

Thats what it was but didn't work

Oh snap, try using crossover (it lets you run winos programs on Mac like its native)

Wine is usually hit or miss from my personal experiences.

Last resort is to run some type of virtual machine (parallels etc) or install boot camp << kinda overkill just for one or a few programs


What I used to do when I was still a Mac newb, I just bounced back and forth from my win laptop via external harddrive.


To the OP: how are things coming along??

I'll try crossover but normally in my experience wine has been the better option