hihoslva

If you rip complete albums to MP3 - try this from ZDNet: Internet Renamer

Free program, works awesome - tags everything automatically, and the ID3s display perfectly in the car.

Give it a try - I use it all the time.

blades242

Check out the link I posted. Downlod the software(freeware). When you pop in a CD to rip it, the software goes out online and grabs the title of the disk and the titles of the songs, and creates the tags...

dezine

Or you can edit ID3 tags with your winamp player...that is easy enough....just a thought...since you should have winamp already....

hihoslva

Using auto-namers is MUCh easier - sitting and typing in all the titles is a pain in the ***.

ToBeBackDoc

I'm not ripping CD's though....I'm D/L them and burning them.

mnkyboy

Yep, same here. Like I said in my previous post, Nero is the best IMO. Ive burned about 260 cds with Nero since I purchased my new burner that came with Nero. My last burner was a Yamaha, and I used Easy Cd Creater the majority of the time, then switched over to Nero and CDRWin. Gotta love it !

ToBeBackDoc

I give up. I tired using NERO and nothing. I tired using winamp to ID3 tag all the songs I burnt and nothing. It my be in my deck or something....who knows.

hihoslva

What deck do you have? You might have to change display setting to see the ID3s.

I've got a Kenwood MP8017, and the display can be either ID3, track number and track length, or the time of day.

You might have to "tell" the deck to display the info.

If not, make sure you're editing the ID3 tag - not just the filename or some other info - it's got to be ID3.

ToBeBackDoc

I have the Kenwood Z727 and I'm pretty sure I got the deck seleced right to show the tags ... if they are there in the first place.

Prem0

Dood in Nero right click the songs before U burn and select propreties then advanced, this will allow U to change your tags. What OS are U running aome make it easier than others..

ToBeBackDoc

My OS is ME. When I right click and select properties theres no advacned tag. I see where I can lable the title and artist and theres already a title. I've tried buning and playing and nothing.

hihoslva

Just because there is a label for artist and track or whatever, doesn't mean you are editing the ID3 tag - I don't know much about the software you are using, but with Windows Media, for example, you can name the tracks from a disc, but that doesn't ID3 tag them for MP3 use - it just names the CD tracks.

Evil Homer MP5

i use EZ CD Creator, it doesn't cause too many problem's for me.
plus i also have a pretty fast CPU and lots of RAM, so it doesn't crap out on me often, plus a good speed burner too.

ToBeBackDoc

Evil Homer MP5, have you tried to ID3 tag you're files and get them to display on a head unit? I've tried about all the programs and I still can't get the display to work. Maybe it's my deck? Or I'm an idoit and can't get it done?

Evil Homer MP5

hmm, i don't have a car deck that play's mp3's....
so i'm sorry i can't help you out there.

But i have burned CD's with CD text that word on a friends car deck that has CD text enabled on it.

maybe you have to enable it.