This section describes a typical session with Kid3. Let's assume we have a folder containing MP3 files with the tracks from the album "Let's Tag" from the band "One Hit Wonder". The folder is named in the "artist - album" format, in our case One Hit Wonder - Let's Tag. The folder contains the tracks in the "track title.mp3" format, which I think is useful because the filenames are short (important when using mobile MP3 players with small displays) and in the correct order when sorted alphabetically (important when using hardware MP3 players which play the tracks in alphabetical order or in the order in which they are burnt on CD and that order is alphabetical when using mkisofs). Besides this, the artist and album information is already in the folder name and does not have to be repeated in the filename. But back to our example, the folder listing looks like this:

01 Intro.mp3

02 We Only Got This One.mp3

03 Outro.mp3

These files have no tags yet and we want to generate them using Kid3. We use File → Open menu item (or toolbar button) and select one of the files in this folder. All files will be displayed in the file listbox. Lazy as we are, we want to use the information in the folder and file names to generate tags. Therefore we select all files, then click the To: Tag 1 button in the File section. This will set the title, artist, album and track values in all files. To set the year and genre values of all files, we keep all files selected and type in "2002" for the Date and select "Pop" from the Genre combobox. To set only these two values, their check boxes are automatically checked and all other check boxes are left unchecked. Now we change the selection by only selecting the first file and we see that all tags contain the correct values. The tags of the other files can be verified too by selecting them one by one. When we are satisfied with the tags, we use File → Save menu item (or toolbar button). Selecting File → Create Playlist menu item (or toolbar button) will generate a file One Hit Wonder - Let's Tag.m3u in the folder.