com/).
But what if you have a lot of music files without any tags at all? Try to
import those files into a program like iTunes, and you??™ll just end up with
countless tracks labeled ???Unknown Artist.??? The solution is to use the filenames
to generate the tags, and for this, you can use Ultra Tag Editor (http://
www.atelio.com/):
1. Open Ultra Tag Editor, use the tree to navigate to the folder containing
your files, and place checkmarks next to the specific files you want to
fix.
2. Below, choose the Ultra Tagger tab, and then, from the Action listbox,
select Generate Tag from Filename (Figure 4-13).
3. Now, Ultra Tag Editor needs you to tell it where in your songs??™ filenames
to find the artist name, track title, track number, album name, and
so on, so you??™ll need to examine the filename of a typical music file on
your hard disk, which might look something like Artist??“Album??“Title.mp3.
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Although programs like Ultra Tag Editor are flexible, they do
require that your filenames be uniform (i.e., all using the
???Artist??“Track.mp3??? format, for instance). Since you likely
have a mish-mash of different filenames, you??™ll need a program
like Power Rename (part of Creative Element Power
Tools, http://www.creativelement.com/powertools/) to fix up
your filenames with ease, without resorting to manually
renaming individual files.
First, determine the delimiter used to separate the information in your
filenames (a hyphen, ??“, in this case), and type it into the Delimiters
field.
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