Tag editor/file renamer for MP3, WMA, OGG, APE, FLAC, MPC, & VQF files
The idea behind Tag Clinic is simple; a program that will make editing or reformatting your MP3 tags a quick and painless experience. In truth though, what you get is an excellent solution that has been so packed with features that at times it is unnecessarily complex to use.
Although it’s far from bloated in terms of the strain it puts on your processor Tag Clinic loses points for the sheer quantity of options that are presented to the user on the main interface. The design of the interface does you no favors either and the glut of buttons littering the three-windowed menu only serves to confuse you.
Once you finally manage to find the directory containing your music you can begin to experience the powerful features of Tag Clinic. There is a huge number of options for interacting with tags, the most advanced of which must be the auto-extract feature, which will look at the file name and use any details from it to fill in the ID3 tag information for titles, artists, albums and tracks. Formatting the text is also a breeze with options to capitalize the first letters or eliminate any spaces from between words.
Although this is a program for editing tags, it seems to be incomplete because of the lack of an internal player and if you want to preview files you must open your default player. We would also like very much to see some kind of CDDB integration that would pull relevant information about albums from the internet repository.
With its direct editing of tag entries, Tag Clinic does offer a very efficient way to edit your music library’s details; However it could do with a major interface re-design and a few more MP3-relevant features to make the experience that bit more user- friendly.
User reviews about Tag Clinic
by Anonymous
What the??.
I don't know what's going on with this program but I just wanted to alter a few of my music tags and ended up completely messing up my library. For some reason the drop down menus decide to give you some obscure choices, and there are so many bleedin buttons all over the place, I just couldn't be bothered clicking any!!! Admittedly, after a while I got what I was trying to do done, but the hassle involved and the ugly interface make it not worth it. Don't use this unless you have the patience of a monk or are some kind of sadist.
Pros:
Teaches you patience, good for anyone who likes to read instruction manuals...can help you edit your MP3 tags, eventually
Cons:
Can be very frustrating / confusing. Way too many buttons on the interface. More