Well, awhile ago I downloaded and installed iTunes to try to salvage my iPod (big, big mistake). Another big mistake was selecting "allow iTunes to organize my music files", which uses a rediculous way of organizing. It arranges by artist, so if you get a sountrack or other, you get like 13 artists added...bah. Plus, any album where there are multiple artists on one song (like a duet or sommat), it puts that in a completely different folder. Completely bugging annoying. It does put SOME albums in "Compilations", but it basically randomly picks albums to put in there - no order whatsoever. Basically, what I want is a program that will go through and read all the ID3 tags and arrange my music strictly according to album. Any ideas on a program that will do this? Here's a screenie of my music folder, just to show you the crazyness: Now this may not look bad, but to such an OCD person as myself, it's driving me absolutely bonkers. And other than spending hours manually re-doing my whole My Music folder, I hoped there was a program that would do it for me...
Not sure if it will do what you want because I have only used it to rename tags, but take a look at The Godfather It has quite a few options including automatic renaming via id3 tag info.
ive made that mistake before with itunes. now im just really careful about any programs that i let anywhere near my music collection!! /tip dont use mediasource for some reason it renamed a load of my music but not the rest took me ages to fix
Ah, the age old question of "how do I orginise my music?". I think one of the best ways is to do it yourself. A program can orginise it for you, but the program may have something down as ambient, when you think it's electronica, thus making things even harder to find. I'd say the best way is, just make folders with all the various genres you have, and place each artists folder in it. Simple, fairly effective, and not to complicated.
Agreed. Every music manager type thingy-mo-bob I've tried has just bugged the hell out of me for one reason or another.
Hmm. Thanks everyone for your input. Downloaded The Godfather, and though I see it says "Reorganize" or sommat, I can't seem to get it to go. Looks like I'll just be doing it manually then... My OCD would rather have it that way, it's just a load of time spent
Yeah, it takes a good while. Back when I had around 20GB of music, it took me around 8 hours to fully orginise it all. That included tagging it all and placing it all in a "music>genre>artist>album" setup. It seems like a crazy ammount of time, but once it's done, it's done, and so long as you keep new stuff in the same manner, the best way.
Well, it only took me about half an hour (put my current music folder on one monitor, a temp folder on the other, and renamed and dragged ), and it's looking much better! Got rid of about 200 songs I didn't want or didn't need anymore Much better. Now I have to get the huge stack of CD's beside me copied over. Been meaning to do it for awhile... EDIT: Well, since I don't want to use iTunes anymore (uninstalled it for one, don't want to have to do this again for another), does anyone know of a good program that will rip CD's into 192kbps mp3's? EDIT2: Bah, nevermind. Went ahead and payed for WinAmp Pro, now it'll rip for me. Much easier. <3 WinAmp
Yeah manual sorting is and probably will always be the best way tbh. The Godfather program owns though, it just takes a bit of a while setting it up, configuring it to your needs, and learning how to use it For ripping I use EAC, encoding done with lame of course, but I'm looking at switching over to .ogg at some point when I have the time to re-rip everything
Using Winamp for ripping is a horrific idea in my mind. Definately use EAX and Lame, or use Cdex if you want an all in one program. Those two will get waaaay better rips then winamp
