Imagine a world where things and people have no names. It would be impossible to find or identify anyone instantly. Just like we relate an individual's name to attributes they have, 103 tags allow us to identify and organize songs based on embedded information such as the artist name, track name, album name, genre, year of release, comment, and so on. These are the details that show up on screen during playback.

103 tags are also important for organizing music. .An MP3 player can only find for songs by artist name, album name or genre if they are tagged, You can even embed the cover art of an album and the lyrics of a song into tags. Some players allow browsing through' music using album art instead of plain text-namely the swanky CoverFlow mode in iPods and iTunes.

The songs' filenames are equally important for managing music. You must have seen filenames full of unnecessary garbled text. Fix upon one syntax such as 'Artist - Title' or 'Artist - Album - Title', and stick to it. Finally, uniformity always makes browsing easier on the eyes.

Tagging and renaming each and every file of a huge music collection may seem intimidating if you haven't used any specialized software for managing the process. There are numerous applications which can batch-process tags and filenames, some of which are Tag and Rename, TagScanner, Dr Tag Plus, and so on. You can also automate the process of acquiring tags from file names and vice-versa, and perform mass-tagging operations. Let's take a quick look at some of the features of TagScanner, one of the most powerful free tagging and renaming tools.

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Step 1: Initial configuration

Specify the path to your music collection and set the 103 tag version as 2 from
the drop down list in the top right corner. You can tag your music using the Tag Editor (mass tagging tool) and Tag Processor (processes tags from filenames).

Step 2: Text transformation

Double-click in the Text transformations section in the top right corner and configure the parameters. You can even specify the letter case for filenames and text replacements. For instance you can replace "cant" by "Can't" automatically,

Step 3: Processing tags

Switch to the Tag Processor, select the files you want to tag, and configure the fields in the Settings pane to the right. Specify the sequence in which various elements of the filename occur and hit the Generate button when you're done.

Step 4: Renaming files

After tagging the files, switch to the Music Renamer and use the list of placeholders to specify the..filename syntax. After previewing the results, click Rename to name files from their tags.