Hello,
I recently began ripping my CD collection (>2,500) into a Bluesound Vault 2i. The Bluesound Vault 2i will take an entire CD and begin ripping it and it looks up the information and labels the songs for you - usually perfectly.
But occasionally it does not recognize the CD/Album and saves the CD as "Unknown CD" with "Unknown Track 1" and "Unknown Track 2" and so on...
Once I am able to determine the correct album/artist name, I use MP3TAG to update this information, but I cannot help but think how much easier it would be if I could tell MP3TAG which album it actually is, and choose the metadata for the correct album and paste it in all at once.
Is this possible? I noticed with my Billy Joel 52nd Street 24k gold remaster CD that there were a variety of album covers and information to choose from and it seemed as though this was possible.
I am new to tagging and any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
Tom Steele
The Hawk and Tom Show
B93.7 Radio, Greenville SC 29615
Hello Tom, welcome 
The usual way to approach this in Mp3tag is by using one of the Tag Sources, e.g., Discogs of MusicBrainz to lookup the album and import the data.
You'd need a free account on Discogs.com to use the Discogs tag source. And if you're looking for a very specific release, like in this case, you can also search via the Discogs website and use the Discogs Release ID (e.g., [r3265307]) along with the "Discogs Release ID" tag source to import the data directly.
Ok, so I have lots of questions...
I went to discogs and searched for the album but I get 100 results, and none of them appear to be that one. I don't see a 2010 release, with media any of that info...
In addition to that, once I do find a file I want to import, I did not see how to get the IMPORT or ADJUST TAG INFORMATION screen.
I apologize for being slow, but this is my first time at this particular rodeo. I am fairly computer savvy, but I am using a BlueSound Vault 2i to import these and I wish that I hadn't chosen wav files, as I believe FLAC is easier to manipulate the tags, but I have no idea where these tags are being stored (individual files?).
Also, the Vault stores a small .jpg in each folder that is clearly the album cover. I don't know how that fits in the scheme of things here.
I realize that some of what I am asking may be related to the Vault and not your program, so I understand if you can't help there, but any help would be greatly appreciated. I really thought that I would be able to figure out more than I have so far, but I think that I haven't gotten a handle on the basics yet - like where this data is stored and how.
Thank you so much!
-Tom Steele
All right, I just made some big steps.
My first problem, I was searching from within the MP3TAG program for the album, which was not returning the correct album. I finally realized that I needed to go to the DISCOGS.COM website to search where it showed the correct version.
Once I did that, I was able to see my options to apply those tags to the album.
I THINK that I was able to update that information properly.
NOW I have to find a way to determine what a bunch of the UNKNOWN albums that I have ripped actually are...
This is going to take some time I think. LOL Thank you for your help!
-Tom Steele
