If you are a music enthusiast, I am sure you have collected piles of MP3 digital files on your computer. In such a way, your MP3 files may be divided into various MP3 albums so that they can be distinguished easily in need. But, sometimes if you have tried to rip the music files or downloaded these tracks from some websites, the album information would be showed in the wrong way, or some important info would appear. Well, encountering such an issue would drive you crazy, to some extent. However, without downloading and installing any further third-party apps, you can try the following ways first.

Why you may want to edit the album info of an MP3 file?

Before moving forward, you should know more about ID3 tags. ID3 is a metadata container that is mostly used in MP3 format audio files. It can store relevant track names, artists, albums, track numbers and other information in MP3 files. The lack of ID3 tags will not affect MP3 playback (no matter which MP3 player you choose), but if not, managing music files will also be quite troublesome. If you download MP3 online, most of them already have preset ID3 messages. If the ID3 info are complete, then you are lucky, if not, what you have to do is to edit the album info of the MP3 files accordingly.

Things have been declared and explained on the reason why you want to edit the album info of an MP3 file. Just as mentioned above, some info of the MP3 album would be changed or missing while transferring or downloading from the internet. Then, in order to present the correct info, editing the album info of an MP3 file would be necessary. Besides, in many occasions, you may also need to modify the mp3 file album, including the year, month or cover and other information, so that we can complete the collection of songs on mobile phones. In such a way, you can easily collect the MP3 information you need. Now, how to edit MP3 album info, are there any excellent MP3 album editing software could be recommended? Here, we will list two free ways to edit MP3 album info.

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Solution 1: How to edit the MP3 album info with Windows Media Player

The first solution you can turn to is to edit MP3 album info with Windows Media Player. The following steps would be your instructions.

Step 1. Make sure your Windows Media Player could be opened properly. Then open it. By default, the MP3 album info have been automatically downloaded from the Internet, then it is difficult to make sure all the MP3 album info are all correct. Then first, you can have a check on the album info. If incorrect, change the album info.

Step 2. Click “Music” tap on Windows Media Player main panel and you can find your local music tracks listed. Then locate a music track which has contained the wrong MP3 album info, and right click on the file and choose “Find album info”.

Step 3. Click “Edit” option under the album information to enter the edit panel.

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Step 4. Edit the “Album”, “Artist” and “Genre” options on your own needs. Furthermore, you can click “Contributing artist” and “Composer” to input more information about the MP3 album.

Step 5. Furthermore, aside from the basic information, Windows Media Player can allow users to edit the cover art of the music files. First, find the picture you prefer and copy it. Then, switch to the “Expanded title” by scrolling down the options in the searching bar. Finally, right click on the album picture and then choose “Paste album art” to paste the picture, the new picture would be shown on the cover.

Solution 2: How to edit the MP3 album info with Groove Music

Second of all, if you are familiar with Groove Music, then it would be useful on editing MP3 album info. Groove is a new music playback application software included in the Windows 10 system. We can use this software to collect and play favorite music, and also connect the favorite music to other Microsoft products, such as OneDrive, Windows Phone And Xbox. As well, it could edit the MP3 album info. Here are the details.

Step 1. Open Groove and select “My Music” on the list on the main screen.

Step 2. Select “Only on this device” under the “Filter” menu tab, which would allow you to see the music tracks on your local computer.

Step 3. There are three tabs, including Songs, Artists and Album. Click Album and right click “Edit info” option where you can edit all the album information.

Step 4. Edit the MP3 album info. On the “Edit Album Info” tab, you can be able to edit all album information, including album title, artist, genre, song titles as well as updating the album thumbnail image by clicking the pencil button.

Step 5. Click “Save” button and all the MP3 album info have been saved correctly.

Solution 3: How to edit the MP3 album info with Tunes Cleaner

Aside from the default app on Windows, additional MP3 album editing software can be your referential tools. Here, I will strongly recommend you to use Leawo Tunes Cleaner to edit MP3 album info. Here Leawo Tunes Cleaner could your useful tool to handle with the issues. As a comprehensive iTunes cleanup programs, Leawo Tunes Cleaner could be used to detect the duplicates in your current media player, download and edit music tags as well as completing the music information, including the album, song name and artists and so on. With Tunes Cleaner, the music tags can be easily edited according to your own preferences, furthermore which could allow users to detect the exact MP3 track information over the Internet. Please follow the steps below to edit the MP3 album info.



Step 1. Download and install Leawo Tunes Cleaner on your computer.

Step 2. Open Leawo Tunes Cleaner and click “Open Music Files” to scan the local MP3 files on your media player. Also, this program can scan the music folder as well.

Step 3. Fix the music files automatically first. Before editing the MP3 album info, you can launch the automatic scanning function of the software. After scanning, these MP3 albums with problems or incomplete information would be presented on the screen. Then click “Fix All” to start fixing these albums first. Usually these information would be found via the Internet and then they could be matched accordingly.

Step 4. Edit MP3 album info manually. These music files are usually stored in different groups. Then locate your targeted music files you would like to edit. Choose it and you can find the “New Tag” option at the bottom where you can input the “Artist”, “Album”, “Year”, and “Genre” information. Once these information have been edited, then you can view the final version on the list.

So simple! Even though it would take users some time to download and install on your computer, Leawo Tunes Cleaner, as an excellent MP3 album editing software, it can take you to the more advanced mode of album info editing processes. If you are still wondering whether you can have your faith in Leawo Tunes Cleaner to complete the editing tasks, then the following tips related to the comparison among the above solutions would be useful to you.

  1. Leawo Tunes Cleaner is a comprehensive program which can both edit the MP3 album info and clean the preferred music files as well as fixing song info and music tags in various media players. Concerning Windows Media Player and Groove music, their main function is to provide the music playback solutions, also the editing features and functions of the two media players are quite limited.
  2. Leawo Tunes Cleaner can clearly category these music files into different groups which is much easier to locate the incomplete music files, especially the “unrecognized songs” group. You can save time to find out these files which need the further edit in comparison with other two media player.
  3. Leawo Tunes Cleaner is much more advanced in aspect of automatic fix function. Before editing the MP3 album info, you can activate the automatic fix function within Leawo Tunes Cleaner, which can really help you to detect and choose the correct info for the albums. Without manual editing steps, you would not obtain the exact missing parts of the album on Windows Media Player and Groove Music.

Note: The auto music tag adding feature of Leawo Tunes Cleaner has been discontinued. You could use it to add or edit music tags manually.