Correct the album, artist, album art ( the album cover ) easily. Make it Louder. Make it Cleaner.
Tools:
- MP3 Tag - works with all common music file types (MP3, WMA, WAV, FLAC, etc.)
- Audacity - download and install also the optional plug-ins (LAME encoder & LADSPA plugins), and install them after you install Audacity.
Correcting Music Information with MP3 Tag:
The trick: this program allows you to batch-edit many files at the same time. So, changing the album artist, album name, and album art for your music becomes a piece of cake.
- Select all the tracks in the folder you're working on.
- Drag and drop the files in the album folder into MP3 Tag window.
- On the left side you will see the album/track information. Leave the song name and the track number alone, and edit the rest as needed.
- The album art is the empty box bottom left. Click it to select an album art.
- Push Control+S. Done!
- Rinse & repeat! Push delete to remove the current list of songs in MP3 tag ( this will not delete them from your library), repeat for a new batch of music.
Tips:
- Get the album art from amazon.com or from Google.
- If you have an album that is multiple CD's, consider naming each CD distinctively. Example: "Shisha Lounge Disc 1" & "Shisha Lounge Disc 2". This means you will do it in 2 batches, but this is easier to process for most music players on phones.
- If you value listening to your music in the same order of the CD, review the "track number" field. Of course this will need to be done song-by-song.
Making It Louder:
- Select the files you want to clean.
- Drag and drop the files you want to work with into Audacity window.
- Press Control + A. All the open files should be marked now.
- In the menu bar ( to the right of "File" ), Click "Effects".
- Select "Amplify". Enter a value a small value. Let's go with 1.2.
- Make sure "Allow Clipping" is unchecked.
- Click preview to hear what the result will be like. Change the amplification value if needed and retest till you find a sweet result.
- Click OK.
- When done, click "File" > "Export Multiple".
- Select "Export Format" ( typicall MP3).
- Click options, set quality to 320 kbps if you're working with music and to 128 kbps if you're working with voice.
- Click OK.
- DONE!
Making It Cleaner:
- Select the files you want to clean.
- Drag and drop the files you want to work with into Audacity window.
- Press Control + A. All the open files should be marked now.
- In the menu bar ( to the right of "File" ), Click "Effects".
- Select "Noise Removal". Do the 2 steps on the screen.
- When done, click "File" > "Export Multiple".
- Select "Export Format" ( typicall MP3).
- Click options, set quality to 128 kbps if you're working with voice.
- Click OK.
- DONE!
Nice! I like people who pay attention to those small details! :D
ReplyDeleteFor me, I use Media Monkey (http://www.mediamonkey.com/) .. It supports both batch-editing for the music information AND batch-rename of files using regular expressions!
You should give it a try if you haven't (Y)
Thanks for the feedback. You can try Audacity for normalization of volume and/ or amplification. Open source FTW.
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