Jtag

The program I decided to download and review is called Jtag. It's a Java based ID3 tag editor. It basically edits the ID3 tag which is a data container within an MP3 that includes information such as Artist, Album, Song Title, and such. The reason I chose this program is because of my huge archive of MP3s. This program is useful because it will load a whole directory of Mp3s and edit all the ID3 tags.

Itunes and Windows Media Player all use ID3 tags when playing a song and displaying what song is being played. So if you were to upload a whole directory of songs and edited the file names so that each filename correctly represented the MP3s but left the ID3 tags how they were, Itunes or WMP will list each file using the ID3 tag which might confuse you. Or even worse, if your ID3 tags were blank, then you would have no idea what song would be playing until you recognized the song.

Editing each MP3 by hand is very tedious and cumbersome, which is where this program comes in. It can load a whole directory of MP3s and simultaneously edit all the tags or a selected few. As i tested this product, I find that it does what it is intended to do but also came with many features that just made it more and more useful. There is the option to rename all the files uploaded so that it reflects the artist and song title in the ID3 tags. Thus saving you the time it takes to rename each individual file. Although I did notice a few bugs where certain MP3 ID3 tags couldn't be edited although it says that it was edited in Jtag.

As for the second prime directive, this program might be a little tricky to use. There really is no installation process but also no intuitive "start button" as well. Those that don't know anything about .bat file might be reluctant to double click on that file. But all that's really needed to use the program is to double click that start.bat file and the program starts up right away. No installation is needed. A readme file would have been helpful but I'm sure enough poking around would have started the program.

As for documentation, the source code is included so you have access to the program and rewrite it to your needs or modify it so that it runs without bugs but there are sparse comments and no real documentation. Even so, the program doesn't seem to be overly complicated and a quick look at the function names and classes give a good idea of what it's about. After edited the files, it seems like you can just as easily compile the program and run it right away since there is no installation.








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