# I need help with setting up the auto tagging
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/i-need-help-with-setting-up-the-auto-tagging/46451
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 16, 2019, 8:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/i-need-help-with-setting-up-the-auto-tagging/46451 "2019-09-16T20:43:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Mefu720](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Mefu720)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2019, 8:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/i-need-help-with-setting-up-the-auto-tagging/46451/1 "2019-09-16T20:43:30Z")
Hi. I want to automatically tag my forever expanding music library. I used to do this by hand, but it took like forever.
During doing this by hand I came up with a comfortable scheme that I would like to somehow apply to a program to do the job now, example:
**File name:**
{_author name_} - {_song name_} {(Ft. _names_)} {[_name_ Remix]}
**Song Metadata:**
Title:
{_song name_} {(Ft. _names_)} {[_name_ Remix]}
Contributing artists:
{_author name_, _author name_, _author name_}
Album:
{_album name_}
Album name for singles:
{_song name_} - Single
Year:
{_year_}
And that's all the info I want tagged on a song, all the other stuff like comments, genre, number, etc. should be deleted
The thing is, I have no idea how to do that. So here I am
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2019, 5:28am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/i-need-help-with-setting-up-the-auto-tagging/46451/2 "2019-09-17T05:28:27Z")
Do you want to import data from the filename?
Then see
> [@Converters to rename files or to import tags](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/converters-to-rename-files-or-to-import-tags/8016/3):
>
> How to import parts of the filename into the tag? Importing tags from filenames and directory names can be done by using the [Converter \> Filename - Tag] Converter \> Filename - Tag. The basic concept is the notion of a format string which describes the structure of the name to import from. The format string is built of either standard text (e.g., Music), placeholders (such as %artist%, %title%, ...), or backslash characters \ that denote directory structures. Here is an example that imports t…
Do you need some help on getting your hands on MP3tag?
See the help:
> **[First Steps – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/getting-started/first-steps/)**
>
> A collection of tasks with step-by-step instructions intended for novice users of Mp3tag. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.
Are you looking for external sources to complete the data?
Then see
> **[Web Sources Scripts](https://community.mp3tag.de/c/development/web-sources-scripts/12)**
>
> Ready-to-use web sources and development of web sources
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### Author:  [@Mefu720](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Mefu720)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2019, 9:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/i-need-help-with-setting-up-the-auto-tagging/46451/3 "2019-09-18T21:54:17Z")
The Tag to Filename is pretty good once I download the data from Discogs. Kinda wish I could automate it all thought, cuz as of right now I have to go 1 by 1 and verify everything. Still, this is waaaay faster than doing EVERYTHING by hand like I usually did
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2019, 5:12am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/i-need-help-with-setting-up-the-auto-tagging/46451/4 "2019-09-19T05:12:00Z")
> [@Mefu720](#):
>
> now I have to go 1 by 1 and verify everything
You may run the converter once you have applied all the tag changes - so you don't have to repeat that for each track individually.
Tagging with the weg sources is album-oriented. So you can tag all tracks of an album in one go and don't have to repeat it for each single track.
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### Author:  [@Mefu720](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Mefu720)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2019, 6:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/i-need-help-with-setting-up-the-auto-tagging/46451/5 "2019-09-22T18:21:23Z")
The data downloading via discogs is pretty wonky once I try to use it on multiple files, even on 2 it gets the naming wrong
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2019, 6:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/i-need-help-with-setting-up-the-auto-tagging/46451/6 "2019-09-22T18:25:32Z")
As I said: you have to do it album by album.
It is not possible to use the tag sources on several albums at once.
The quality of the data in the web sources is beyond MP3tag's controle.
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### Author:  [@Mefu720](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Mefu720)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2019, 6:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/i-need-help-with-setting-up-the-auto-tagging/46451/7 "2019-09-22T18:31:24Z")
Alright, still. It gave out wrong names after selecting 2 songs from the same album for some reason
Guess I have to have all the files from an album for this to work correctly?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2019, 6:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/i-need-help-with-setting-up-the-auto-tagging/46451/8 "2019-09-22T18:34:40Z")
> [@Mefu720](#):
>
> Guess I have to have all the files from an album for this to work correctly?
No, usually you can (manually) align the data list from discogs with the filenames.
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### Author:  [@Mefu720](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Mefu720)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2019, 6:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/i-need-help-with-setting-up-the-auto-tagging/46451/9 "2019-09-22T18:41:08Z")
Eh, guess it will be faster to just rename the files by hand then, again. The TAG - Filename is great tho
Thanks anyway. I'll ask here for help when I'll have problems with trying out the other options, cheers
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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/i-need-help-with-setting-up-the-auto-tagging/46451/10 "2026-02-09T12:28:15Z")