# Music tools

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-tools/804891>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [August 18, 2022, 1:58am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-tools/804891 "2022-08-18T01:58:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![BambiSlayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85e7bf/32.png) [@BambiSlayer](https://forums.plex.tv/u/BambiSlayer)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 1:58am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-tools/804891/1 "2022-08-18T01:58:49Z")

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Hello All

I have quite a few music files that I ripped in my very early days (20+ years ago) that don’t have any tags and the file names are simply track01 etc. The only way I know what they could be is the folder name (artist/album).

Are there tools that can automatically change/update file names and add tags based on this limited information so that plex can correctly identify them. To do this manually would take an unreasonable amount of time.

Regards

Fred

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**Author:** ![mm98](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/mm98/32/173608_2.png) [@mm98](https://forums.plex.tv/u/mm98)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 4:24am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-tools/804891/2 "2022-08-18T04:24:39Z")

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MP3tag (free) is a very popular app for renaming and ID3 tags:

[https://www.mp3tag.de/](https://www.mp3tag.de/).

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**Author:** ![Forkboy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/forkboy/32/96773_2.png) [@Forkboy](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Forkboy)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 5:27am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-tools/804891/3 "2022-08-18T05:27:42Z")

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I use [MusicBrainz Picard](https://picard.musicbrainz.org/) for all my music before I put it on my Plex Server. Help a lot with my older .ogg files I had ripped from my CD collection (before selling most at a yard sale) for a music player I had years ago. Very helpful when needing to look up by Album/Distribution Company and Artwork.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2022, 5:28am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-tools/804891/4 "2022-11-16T05:28:10Z")

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Closed on November 16, 2022, 5:28am UTC

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