Finally Found a Way to Add the Explicit Tag

God, after searching for so damn long, I finally managed to find a way to add the Explicit or Clean tag to your CD Ripped songs. If you're interested, post here so I can see if it's worth my time to actually make a small guide.

By the way, this is only for .mp4 or .m4a audio files, it will not work on MP3 files at all.

In iTunes, when you buy music from the iTunes store your songs will come with a red "Explicit" tag encoded into the audio file if the song is from a Parential Advisory Album. Some of us like to keep our libraries as organized as possible and this tag has thrown some of us off that wanted our CD Ripped songs to look like the iTunes Store songs we downloaded.

For example, say you bought a song and you liked it. It has the explicit tag, you decide to buy the CD from the artist and when you import your CD, the song that you bought from the iTunes store will look awkward with the rest of the tagless songs since iTunes doesn't let you add this via the "Get Info" option.

Looks like this...

None of my songs have tags. Explicit, clean or otherwise. I have songs purchased off of iTunes, and songs from cds.

Yes!!! please tell me how. I too have been searching for this for forever

Alright, here are your tools.

The process is really easy and not that hard at all. Extract the files to a secure place and do the follwing.

1. Open up the folder with the files inside in an explorer window. You'll see some files and the Clean/Explicit script. Minimize this window for now.
2. Open up iTunes. Select the songs that you want to add a tag to. Make sure they're all hilighted.
3. On your taskbar bring up the explorer window containing the Clean/Explicit scripts. Now, make sure that iTunes can be seen in the background, all you gotta do now is either double click on the Explicit Script or the Clean script and you'll see some black windows pop up (it's the CMD) and they'll disappear.
4. Now all you gotta do is update the songs so iTunes can read the new tag. You can do this by simply playing the song and skip it. The new tag will be on the song and you've done it. This tag will be embed in the file and will always show up.

Removing Tags: Mistakes happen and I'm sure you've accidentally tagged a wrong song. I updated the tools with a "Remove Tag" script and it works like the other two. Select the songs and run the script.

Hope you guys enjoy this as much as I do.

Edit: If you run through some problems or need pictures, don't hesitate to send me a PM. I'm usually always on and will most likely help you out.

[size=1][color=#666666]This message was edited by ZL on Jul 30 2009.

Haha yes. Be glad a simple google search brings you here now, I had to really dig.

Hope you enjoy your stay on Neo too.

Hold on, I'm currently looking it up. I'll get back in a few.

Edit: I updated the tools with the "Remove Script" so just redownload them and you'll see the script in there.

quote ZL

Haha yes. Be glad a simple google search brings you here now, I had to really dig.

It already does...