# Update tag info using freedb
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/update-tag-info-using-freedb/10155
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 21, 2010, 11:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/update-tag-info-using-freedb/10155 "2010-03-21T11:54:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Shaq](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Shaq)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2010, 11:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/update-tag-info-using-freedb/10155/1 "2010-03-21T11:54:23Z")
Hello everyone, I was wondering if there's a way update all ID3 tags of my music files automatically using [freedb.com](http://freedb.com) database. I was trying to do this and couldn't understand why it doesn't work, couldn't find any help through the help files either.
I know Winamp can do the same with a very accurate results, but it cannot do that on a massive scale.
Thank you.
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### Author:  [@Shaq](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Shaq)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2010, 4:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/update-tag-info-using-freedb/10155/2 "2010-03-23T16:07:29Z")
anyone? please!
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2010, 5:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/update-tag-info-using-freedb/10155/3 "2010-03-23T17:26:35Z")
what kinds of hints does mp3tag have to find any information in the database?
Have you filled some tags already? Do you still have some CDs? (e.g. CDex relies on freedb). Or do you only have a bouquet of untagged data files that happen to be in the mp3 format?
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### Author:  [@Shaq](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Shaq)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/update-tag-info-using-freedb/10155/4 "2010-03-23T17:48:01Z")
Well, most of the files have proper file name... Some of them have a proper tag, some with few mistakes, some only need missing info and some are totally untagged..
The CD's aren't available anymore..
I wonder why it should be so complicated, Winamp and Media Player can fill all the info without any information..
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2010, 6:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/update-tag-info-using-freedb/10155/5 "2010-03-23T18:30:15Z")
> [@Shaq](#):
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> Well, most of the files have proper file name...
You could use the mp3tag function "filename - tag" to use your filenames as source for tag information.
> [@Shaq](#):
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> Winamp and Media Player can fill all the info without any information..
if you have two programs to fill your tags and the result is satisfactory, why do you need a third programm?
Still, I am wondering how any program should guess what track it is looking at if there is no original information in it.
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### Author:  [@Shaq](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Shaq)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2010, 7:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/update-tag-info-using-freedb/10155/6 "2010-03-23T19:40:02Z")
"Filename -\> Tag" option is not good enough because I want to get accurate file info from the internet.
I mentioned the problem of Winamp and Media Payer above, indeed, it gets exactly what I want, but the problem is that it's pretty clumsy retrieving info for every file one by one.. I want a tool that can retrieve that info for bunch of files and I'll just fix what needed to be fixed..
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### Author:  [@stanman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/stanman)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2010, 10:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/update-tag-info-using-freedb/10155/7 "2010-03-24T10:45:01Z")
All of the programs that look up tag information from the internet work pretty much the same way, they do a query by album.
So the most tracks you can do at one time is the number that's on one album.
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2010, 12:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/update-tag-info-using-freedb/10155/8 "2010-03-24T12:29:45Z")
> [@Shaq](#):
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> ... I want a tool that can retrieve that info for bunch of files and I'll just fix what needed to be fixed.
Do you know the MusicBrainz Picard tagger?
[http://musicbrainz.org/doc/PicardDownload](http://musicbrainz.org/doc/PicardDownload)
DD.20100324.1429.CET
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### Author:  [@Shaq](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Shaq)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2010, 11:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/update-tag-info-using-freedb/10155/9 "2010-03-24T23:22:53Z")
> [@DetlevD](#):
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> Do you know the MusicBrainz Picard tagger?
> [http://musicbrainz.org/doc/PicardDownload](http://musicbrainz.org/doc/PicardDownload)
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> DD.20100324.1429.CET
Nice application, it does pretty good job, but I wonder, why does it get different results than Winamp?
For example, I was searching the song "Blur - The Universal", MusicBrainz tagged the file as part of an album called "Now That's What I Call Music! 33 (disc 1)" (Some sort of compilation CD), while Winamp tagged it as an original file from the artist's album called "Best Of Blur" by "Blur"... Obviously Winamp's result is the one I prefer..
Why can't MP3TAG do the same as both of those applications?
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2010, 11:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/update-tag-info-using-freedb/10155/10 "2010-03-24T23:26:32Z")
Mp3tag has no [Acoustic\_fingerprint](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_fingerprint) technology implemented.
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### Author:  [@Shaq](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Shaq)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2010, 11:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/update-tag-info-using-freedb/10155/11 "2010-03-24T23:51:36Z")
And no plugin is possible of doing this?
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2010, 11:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/update-tag-info-using-freedb/10155/12 "2010-03-24T23:57:25Z")
Nope.
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### Author:  [@mjcm](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mjcm)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2010, 5:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/update-tag-info-using-freedb/10155/13 "2010-03-25T05:00:49Z")
> [@Shaq](#):
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> I was searching the song "Blur - The Universal", MusicBrainz tagged the file as part of an album called "Now That's What I Call Music! 33 (disc 1)" (Some sort of compilation CD), while Winamp tagged it as an original file from the artist's album called "Best Of Blur" by "Blur"... Obviously Winamp's result is the one I prefer..
Even the info from Winamp isn't correct.
Discogs gives it as part of the Album "The Great Escape"
[http://www.discogs.com/Blur-The-Great-Escape/master/94767](http://www.discogs.com/Blur-The-Great-Escape/master/94767)
also Wikipedia gives it as a song from "The Great Escape"
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Universal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Universal)
If you want to find out the correct Album, Cover Art etc etc, manual Labour is the way to go. However Mp3tag, Winamp and MusicBrainz can point you in the right direction.
Look into how to use Websources with Mp3tag:
[/c/web-sources-scripts](https://community.mp3tag.de/c/web-sources-scripts)
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/update-tag-info-using-freedb/10155/14 "2026-02-09T12:22:16Z")