iEatBrainz | Automatic MP3 ID3 Tagger

Posted by Scott | March 20, 2007 .

iEatBrainz is a free ID3 tagger ported over to the mac from the popular PC application called MusicBrainz. The software uses some fancy words that I dont understand such as music fingerprints to identify the MP3 in question. It compares this so called fingerprint with its huge database of music so that you can quickly and pretty darn accurately update all fields of your ID3 tags for your MP3s all at once.

If you’re unsure of what an ID3 tag is, it is the Meta data stored for each mp3 file that a player, such as iTunes, uses to display the artist name, song name, album, genere and all that good stuff. iEatBrainz will check for the location of your MP3s and show you a listing of each file with its respective ID3 data. You can then select the ones you’d like to update and add them to the list.

Once you have selected the songs you want to update, iEatBrainz will automatically check its database and show you what it wants to change the ID3 tag info to. Be careful not to just say “Hey Im sure this works great Ill just hit OK and let it change all my songs at once”. There are songs that it wont recognize and try to put the wrong info in. Such as a 311 song I was trying to change, it recommended it to be changed to some U2 song. While both bands do have numbers in the name, U2 was certainly not the correct ID3 tag to use.

It takes about 1-2 seconds per song for iEatBrainz to check against its database so if you have a few thousand songs and tell them to check them all at once, be prepared for a good little wait before it finishes. I recommended doing it in little sections at the time. This will allow you to check the songs against the database and approve/disapprove the changes.

For the most part the songs it recommends are correct and it will update the tags automatically quickly and easily. But just be careful not to accidently overwrite songs with the wrong tag.

Download iEatBrainz MP3 ID3 Tagger for Mac.