# Advice on re-tagging re-ripped tracks?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/advice-on-re-tagging-re-ripped-tracks/4037
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [November 10, 2006, 1:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/advice-on-re-tagging-re-ripped-tracks/4037 "2006-11-10T13:21:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@bobkoure](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bobkoure)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 1:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/advice-on-re-tagging-re-ripped-tracks/4037/1 "2006-11-10T13:21:37Z")
I'm contemplating (dreading) re-ripping my CD collection into a lossless format - so I never have to do it again.
I've already spent a lot of time making sure the tags in the current version of my library (all mp3) are right and consistent with my own "style" - which means if I use freedb (or suchlike) I'll have to do that all over again.
So I'd rather automate things - at least as far as possible.
Here's that I _think_ I should do.
1. export tags for all files to text files, using the one file per directory option
2. re-rip CDs, naming tracks simply %artist% - %album% - %track%.flac
- the only reason I'm bothering with other than %track% for a name is so I can use EAC's ability to queue encoding
1. files for each CD go into a separate directory, named %artist% - %album% (matches my current directory naming, but will be in a different tree)
2. I copy (probably with batch file) the exported-tags-text-files to their appropriate "new" directory
3. I use MP3Tag's "tags from text file) to set tags in new files
So... is there some pitfall here I'm not seeing? A better way to do this? I love MP3Tag, but is there a more appropriate tool? I'm starting to learn foobar2000 - is there something in there (or in a plugin) that I'd ought to be using?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Oblio](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Oblio)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2006, 3:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/advice-on-re-tagging-re-ripped-tracks/4037/2 "2006-11-13T03:00:51Z")
Give ID3-TagIT a go. It can copy and paste tags from multiple files in one operation. You would still have to do one album at a time though so its not really automated. Just make sure you have the tracks in the right order when you paste. 🙂
> [@bobkoure](#):
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> So... is there some pitfall here I'm not seeing? A better way to do this? I love MP3Tag, but is there a more appropriate tool? I'm starting to learn foobar2000 - is there something in there (or in a plugin) that I'd ought to be using?
>
> Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2006, 8:42am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/advice-on-re-tagging-re-ripped-tracks/4037/3 "2006-11-13T08:42:06Z")
> [@Oblio](#):
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> Give ID3-TagIT a go. It can copy and paste tags from multiple files in one operation. You would still have to do one album at a time though so its not really automated. Just make sure you have the tracks in the right order when you paste. 🙂
You can copy and paste tags from the old files to the new files with Mp3tag too. Just use [Ctrl+C] and [Ctrl+V].
Best regards,
Florian
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### Author:  [@bobkoure](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bobkoure)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2006, 1:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/advice-on-re-tagging-re-ripped-tracks/4037/4 "2006-11-13T13:12:50Z")
Cool!
So all I really need to do is make sure that the newly ripped tracks are in the same order - which is easy enough.
Thanks!
Bob
> [@Florian](#):
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> You can copy and paste tags from the old files to the new files with Mp3tag too. Just use [Ctrl+C] and [Ctrl+V].
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> Best regards,
> Florian
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### Author:  [@Oblio](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Oblio)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2006, 3:41am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/advice-on-re-tagging-re-ripped-tracks/4037/5 "2006-11-15T03:41:46Z")
Oops sorry Florian, I didn't realise mp3tag could do that. When I first tried to do it with mp3tag I'm sure I couldn't. Next time I'll check before recommending an inferior tagging program!
> [@Florian](#):
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> You can copy and paste tags from the old files to the new files with Mp3tag too.
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### Author:  [@wab66](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/wab66)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2006, 9:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/advice-on-re-tagging-re-ripped-tracks/4037/6 "2006-11-16T21:02:50Z")
> [@Florian](#):
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> You can copy and paste tags from the old files to the new files with Mp3tag too. Just use [Ctrl+C] and [Ctrl+V].
Yeah, that works for all normal tags (standard & personal) but
not for the PICTURE/cover tag or did I something wrong?
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2006, 7:21am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/advice-on-re-tagging-re-ripped-tracks/4037/7 "2006-11-17T07:21:20Z")
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QUOTE(Wolfgang B @ Nov 16 2006, 23:02) \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>
Yeah, that works for all normal tags (standard & personal) but
not for the PICTURE/cover tag or did I something wrong?
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No, you're right. I'll look into this...
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2006, 9:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/advice-on-re-tagging-re-ripped-tracks/4037/8 "2006-11-17T09:17:29Z")
I thought this was part of the removal of covers from the undo-feature or did it go too far?