Correcting MP3 song name or artist name

[jackdup]

I ripped a bunch of audio files from CDs and noted that while most showed the following format for each song, some did not

track # - artist name - song title

Some of the files had unknown artist in the artist name field so I simply edited the file name to put in the artist name however once transferred to the MP3 player the artist name is still shown as unknown.

How do I change the unknown artist to the correct artist name so the MP3 player recognizes it?

Thank you

[marioval]

If you're talking about the MP3 tags then get yourself a good tag editor. I use MediaMonkey myself.

[Ai Haibara]

You need to edit the ID3 tag information, not the filename. Use a tag editor of your choice, like MP3Tag, or the built-in tag-editing features of whatever music player you're using on the system (WinAmp, etc.). Windows Vista and 7 also have built-in ways to do it (right-click on the file > Properties, and it's the last tab on the right of the Properties window, if I remember everything correctly (I'm not on our Vista system at the moment).)

[johns0]

On win7 its the third tab(details) on properties to changed the id3 tags.

[jackdup]

Thanks very much for the help.

[olyteddy]

One advantage to editing the tags in WinAmp is the 'Auto-Tag' button. Not always accurate, but pretty close.

[jackdup]

Thank you