# Basic batch tagging
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/basic-batch-tagging/45054
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 5, 2019, 6:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/basic-batch-tagging/45054 "2019-04-05T18:15:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@bsacco](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bsacco)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2019, 6:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/basic-batch-tagging/45054/1 "2019-04-05T18:15:34Z")
I'm a newbie. And I can't figure out why when I select more than ONE file then using the MENU item \> TAG SOURCES \> freedb \> determine from selected files\> I get the ERROR "No Suitable entry found for freedb ID 2c02d807.
I have a ton of files to tag. It only allows me to do the above action if I ONLY select ONE file at a time.
Please tell me that I'm doing something wrong because I can't imagine this program cant scan and tag files in a batch fashion. Thanks, bob
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2019, 6:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/basic-batch-tagging/45054/2 "2019-04-05T18:28:08Z")
see e.g. here:
> [@Search for song names in freedb etc.?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/search-for-song-names-in-freedb-etc/17805):
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> I just started using Mp3tag last week, before that I only used iTunes. It's taken some learning, but Mp3tag seems very useful so far! I have a lot of files with no tags, that just have artist and song name, or just the song name, in the file name. I want to search freedb to find the album, so I can get tags and cover. If I use freedb "determine via web search", and put the song name in, and uncheck Artist and Album (leaving only Title), I always get "the query returned no results". Using Adva…
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### Author:  [@ryerman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ryerman)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2019, 7:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/basic-batch-tagging/45054/3 "2019-04-05T19:46:52Z")
> [@bsacco](#):
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> Please tell me that I'm doing something wrong because I can't imagine this program cant scan and tag files in a batch fashion.
Just to be clear, the Tag Sources are designed to tag one album at a time, not an assortment of files from various albums.
For successful tagging using "freedb \> determine from selected files", each and every track of 1 and only 1 album must be selected and they must be in the correct order in Mp3tag.
It seems as if this search relies on the number of tracks and their length and/or order, without regard to metadata or filenames.
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### Author:  [@bsacco](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bsacco)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2019, 8:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/basic-batch-tagging/45054/4 "2019-04-05T20:23:05Z")
You mean I have to tag every single LP manually? Are you kidding me?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2019, 8:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/basic-batch-tagging/45054/5 "2019-04-05T20:35:16Z")
see here:
> [@Automatically search album by artist and title](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/automatically-search-album-by-artist-and-title/44863/2):
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> That is your decision. Perhaps you use another information source like discogs or beatport - for these sources there are scripts to find something by artist and title. Whether you will get the correct information then is still a question as it is not clear whether you have the original version, the radio or video edit, the live version, the one for greatest hits or on the best music sampler, the re-issue, the maxi version and so on. Only in the context of an album a track becomes identifiabl…
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### Author:  [@ryerman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ryerman)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2019, 9:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/basic-batch-tagging/45054/6 "2019-04-05T21:10:13Z")
> [@bsacco](#):
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> You mean I have to tag every single LP manually? Are you kidding me?
Yes. No, I'm not kidding you.
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### Author:  [@RoyBatty](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/RoyBatty)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2019, 12:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/basic-batch-tagging/45054/7 "2019-04-07T12:03:52Z")
I'm tagging my collection for a long time, album by album, year by year...it' long process if you want to make it right. 😉
Literally, if you have large music collection and you want to make it right, that's really long process and it can take you few years.
I have few versions of same albums (LP, CD, web downloads, reissues, limited editions, original releases etc.) and I don't know if any tag app can make that right in one go.
Maybe MB Picard can do that but you can't get 100% correct results for all albums and again you will need to check all albums before writing tags in Picard.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/basic-batch-tagging/45054/8 "2026-02-09T12:28:01Z")