Tagman

There are many people who like to store some of their favorite songs on their computers, so as to listen to them whenever they want to unwind after a hard day at work or simply when hanging out with friends.

However, if the filenames of your audio tracks are confusing or irrelevant, you can rely on Tagman to restore sense to them once more.

Intuitive app for processing songs and retrieving tag data

In order to benefit from the functions of Tagman, you need to start by selecting the tracks you want it to analyze.

You can either choose the files you are interested in manually, or you can leave it to the app to scan your PC, locate the audio tracks and examine their tag information. Once all the files have been processed, a detailed list is generated, presenting their associated ID3 data.

Automatically or manually update ID3 info

After you have chosen the source songs, you can just use Tagman to check against an online database and look for songs that match your own – as soon as a match is found, the correct metatag information is also retrieved. Alternatively, if you are not pleased with the automatic results, you can alter or replace the data manually, as you see fit.

This way, your digital music collection can be neatly sorted and organized by artist, album, release year or genre, as all this data will be present in the ID3 tags. Needless to say, the info can also be interpreted by almost any player you might choose, thus making it possible for your home cinema or smartphone to display it when you play the track.

Quickly find the correct artwork for each of your songs

A handy feature of Tagman is that it can also look for album covers and assigns them to your songs – you also get to do this manually, by selecting an image on your PC and associating it with the correct tracks.

All in all, Tagman can prove to be a reliable and straightforward app for turning your digital music collection to a database of nicely formatted tracks, that each feature accurate metatag data regarding the artist, genre or album name.

Tagman can analyze the MP3 audio files you select or it can search for and analyze all your music files. By doing so it can find and fill out missing tags. This sort of functionality comes in very handy if you have a large music library and you want to keep it organized.

Support is provided for any Windows edition from Windows XP onward. Please note that 32- as well as 64-bit Windows editions are supported. As expected, a setup wizard will help you install Tagman on a PC that runs a 32- or 64-bit Windows edition.

Three buttons are presented on the left hand side of Tagman’s interface:
Analysis – instruct Tagman to analyze all music files or certain music files.
Settings – play with several options that govern how Tagman works.
Help – open a PDF manual that nicely describes what Tagman can do. It comprehensively presents Tagman’s interface and Tagman’s functionality.

Speaking about functionality, here’s a list of features and functions: analyze all the music files stored on a certain drive; analyze files from a certain folder; load certain music files and analyze them; automatically fill missing tags; manually edit tags; built-in audio player.

Tagman is not free, it is only free to try. This means you can use it for evaluation purposes for a trial period of 30 days; the trial will recognize up to 500 songs.

Manually edit MP3 audio tags or have Tagman recognize songs and automatically fill out the missing tags.

Pros
There’s nothing complicated about installing Tagman on a Windows-powered PC. Tagman’s interface is very easy to use. Tagman can analyze all music files stored on a certain drive; Tagman can analyze music files from whatever folder you select; Tagman can analyze whatever files you manually pick. Tagman can automatically fill out tags. You can manually edit audio tags. There’s a built-in player that you can use to listen to songs.

Cons
Trial limitations: 30-day trial, 500 songs limitation, nag screen.

You can download Tagman free here.