FlashID3Fixer

All songs under the MP3 format contain additional information related to the maker, album, publisher, and more, details which are known as ID3 tags. Luckily, you can use these info fields to your advantage to create an organized collection, and with the help of FlashID3Fixer this can be automatically done.

On the bright side of things, the application doesn’t take you through a setup process to make all of its features available, so it’s good to go from the moment download is done. As such, you can take it with you on a thumb drive to be used on other computers besides your own, with no worries that the health status of the target PC gets affected, because registry entries remain intact.

When launched, a pretty compact window shows up on screen, and isn’t really difficult to use if you’re familiar with the perks of ID3 tags. You can choose to edit based on either ID3v1 or ID3v2 tags, depending on the files you wish to process. A built-in browse dialog lets you select the folder where all files are found, with the application also looking inside subfolders.

The set of options at your disposal isn’t really abundant, letting you make the process recursive, whether or not to change the album tag to match the folder name, and to create a playlist with all files in the top level. Unfortunately, there’s little else to do except start the operation, and you don’t even get to view what or how new tags get edited.

This means that for the application to properly get the job done, your entire music collection needs to be cleverly organized in folder structures, and come with appropriate names. When done, you can view a log of events, but there’s little helpful info provided.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that FlashID3Fixer is a pretty poor choice when it comes to organizing the tags of your songs. There’s little to no control over the whole operation, and you can end up looking for alternatives if you want advanced management.