Synchronizing MP3 tags

The MP3 files can have two tag versions : ID3v1 and ID3v2 , both separately and simultaneously . If the values of corresponding tag fields in different versions do not match, or the tags of one of the versions are missing, you can synchronize them.

The synchronization procedure copies the ID3v1 tag values into ID3v2 and vice versa.

To copy the tags from ID3v1 to ID3v2 do the following:

  • Select the necessary files
  • Go to Tools | MP3 Tags Synchronization and click to Copy ID3v1 to ID3v2 or press Ctrl+F1 shortcut key.

For counter copying tags from ID3v 2 to ID3v1 do the following:

  • Select the necessary files
  • Go to Tools | MP3 Tags Synchronization and click to Copy ID3v 2 to ID3v1 or press Ctrl+F2 shortcut key.

You can also synchronize tags by pressing the MP3 Tags Synchronization button on the Toolbar. The button becomes active only when at least one file with unsynchronized tags of ID3v1 and ID3v2 versions is selected.

Note: The ID3v2 tags may be in Unicode encoding while the ID3v1 version tags may be encoded in ISO-8859-1 only. For languages using symbol tables different from ISO-8859-1 the encoding is being accomplished according to current user settings.

You can read about the differences between ID3v1 and ID3v2 in Wikipedia.