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- HedwigDies, on 10/04/2008, -22/+201Call me old school, but I still think doing it by hand is the best method. Yeah it's time consuming, but the end result is always exactly what you wanted.
- solarweasel, on 10/04/2008, -7/+177i like to do it by hand too. if my right hand gets tired, i simply switch to the left. years of this practice has allowed me to perfect the motion and repitition. and like you said, the end result is always exactly what i want: satisfying.
- inactive, on 10/04/2008, -2/+132You know what pisses me off? People who name their songs something like
xxx-01-this_is_a_cool_song-2007-cool_album-encoded_by_dumbass-xxx.mp3
And have no tags.
ARGH! Die. - NathanielJ, on 10/04/2008, -18/+12580,000+ MP3's at an average size of 3.5 Mb per MP3 = 273Gb of music. Unless you're a DJ, why on earth would you have that much music? I'd be surprised if I'd heard over 80,000 songs in my lifetime.
- adverpart, on 10/04/2008, -8/+113If you're a true music lover you'll do it by hand like me. 30,000 songs... haven't listened to any of them, but they're tagged so nicely!
- Culyt, on 10/04/2008, -3/+77Welcome to 2008.
Its as easy today to download an entire several GB discography as it was to get a single tune as it was in 2000.
☢ - meshman, on 10/04/2008, -21/+78Try it with a library of 80,000+ mp3's and 25% not tagged. These types of programs are a god send.
- djjustinjohnson, on 10/04/2008, -4/+52Ah! So happy this got posted. HUGE help to me and my library. Nothing is more annoying than trying to find something in my iPod but it's tagged incorrectly so I can't find it. Also is awesome for finding tunes in Traktor when I'm DJing. :)
- veggiemoore, on 10/04/2008, -1/+44I literally JUST spent three or four hours getting my iTunes library in order and adding all the album art it couldn't find. And NOW I hear about this. Serves me right for not looking, I guess.
- LeviTheSmith, on 10/04/2008, -5/+41FixTunes http://btjunkie.org/torrent/Fixtunes-with-crack/44 ...
- rukeypoo, on 10/04/2008, -1/+34Don't you dare.
- gwinerreniwg, on 10/04/2008, -2/+34I use a tool called MP3TagStudio to manage all sorts of ID3 tag properties. Nice app - been around for many years now too:
http://www.magnusbrading.com/mp3ts/ - deathfix, on 10/04/2008, -1/+33I'm partially OCD when it comes to my music, so I just manually edit the ID3 tags right after I finish downloading. It's cool to see this option though.
- kaniz, on 10/04/2008, -0/+31and you know the day you think 'I'll never listen to this' and delete it, a few weeks later your trying to find it.
- LeviTheSmith, on 10/04/2008, -2/+28I am not ashamed to admit he is in my iTunes library..
http://i34.tinypic.com/169qa2v.jpg - OneLess, on 10/04/2008, -0/+25Looks really useful and I'm glad MusicBrainz is multi-platform so I can do this on Linux.
- Culyt, on 10/04/2008, -2/+25Well that's what you get for blindly trusting a program to categorize your music.
Its fine if you check the results somewhat, in some cases you need to manually search for the album.
Its also important to understand the way it works so you know when to use the 'scan' button and when to do a "cluster then 'look up'" (The first is generally for when you don't have decent tags and the second is for when you have semi-decent ones and just want to link it correctly to the database ones and get proper spelling, capitalization and art).
☢ - orangebluedevil, on 10/04/2008, -0/+22Be careful with it though I tried Fixtunes about 6 months ago, paid for it and everything and now all my "artist" tags have a bunch of slashes in them. Probably like 60% of my library was affected. Here's an example:
TI/T.I./TI and Young Dro/T.I. and Young Dro/TI & Young Dro/T.I. & Young Dro/T.I. ft Young Dro/T.I. feat. Young Dro
Ya...sucks bigtime - AaronSaund, on 10/04/2008, -3/+25Media Monkey works well too.
- Culyt, on 10/04/2008, -1/+22FTA: "The only caveat of MusicBrainz is that it doesn’t pull down album art; FixTunes does that automatically."
MusicBrainz *DOES* pull in album art automatically, you just need to enable the plugin in the newer versions of Picard. The only problem is that not all the albums have art, although most do.
I've been using Picard for a while now to get art and organize stuff, its great.
The main thing I dislike about it is the it will sometimes prioritize compilation cd's over proper release albums when dealing with individual songs (ie, "Great Party Hits of 1999 (disc 2)" or "Classic Rock #17" over the actual groups album).
The other problem is the folder structure, it doesn't make sense for a lot of the music I have since they are often Various Artists (mostly because I listen to a lot of trance, electronica, techno, etc...). 1 CD (or often a collection of like 3 cds) can have a different artist for each track and often the DJ or organization that did the completion is the important one.
There are also some misses in the categorization so its not safe to just dump your whole music folder into it and let it go, you do need to look it over, this is more of a problem if you download single tracks rather than whole albums, if you do that you will often also get tracks that don't have entries in the database since there to obscure.
You also sometimes have issues with CDs having a different number of tracks to the one you have.
But overall its awesome.
☢ - aquapete, on 10/04/2008, -0/+21baahahaha soo true, im just a midget compared to you at 11k but i feel the same way. oooh look at my pretty collection, dont ask me whats there though...
- 4degrees, on 10/04/2008, -12/+31DONT use music brainz. it WILL mislabel many songs. it screwed up my metallica collection, zztop, faith no more, Tool, etc. etc.
its a neat service, but the data is all screwed up and tamered with, much like wikipedia. :-P - ryansimbalist, on 10/04/2008, -2/+21That's why there's a digg button.
- nesagwa, on 10/04/2008, -3/+22Youd be surprised how quickly you can get that many songs.
- Junior612, on 10/04/2008, -0/+19You can Rick Roll yourself on command!
- basye, on 10/04/2008, -3/+21Have been looking for something like this for awhile, thanks.
- Hypnotical, on 10/04/2008, -0/+17I highly recommend MP3tag.
Gives you a choice which source(freedb, Amazon, Discogs, ..) to use for automatically editing ID3tags.
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/ - foofightrs777, on 10/04/2008, -0/+16MusicBrainz is free.
- Hypnotical, on 10/04/2008, -0/+14don't download those :P
- kinseyincanada, on 10/04/2008, -0/+14great people are signing their post with symbols now, youre not Prince.
- 33PercentGod, on 10/04/2008, -1/+15Well,tag them as you accumulate them.
Really,it's not that hard and much more personal. - adverpart, on 10/04/2008, -2/+16Also: foobar2000 has a lot of script/batch functionality for tagging and renaming, it works remarkably well. If you have a really huge library, give it a try.
- Maxjan, on 10/04/2008, -0/+13it's an offer you can't refuse!
- Mutton, on 10/04/2008, -1/+14A pirate's life must be so rough. :[
- elblots, on 10/04/2008, -2/+15Mediamonkey. Nuff said. Once you get the hotkeys down you can tag/rename/move/organize your entire library pretty quickly. I did over 900 albums this way in just an afternoon. All with proper art, names, and the ability to autoconvert files on the fly. Added bonus: Ability to sync to iPods and select other MP3 Players right from the program.
- Bots, on 10/04/2008, -0/+12haha sounds like me. I got 90GB of full albums that I don't even really listen to. No point in downloading single songs anymore when you can get the full album.
- bjornski, on 10/04/2008, -0/+12If you know what you're doing, Picard won't mess anything up.
99% of Picard's errors are user generated, by not knowing how to "organize" the songs on your right window properly before hitting "save". - HonoredMule, on 10/04/2008, -0/+12I'm a big fan of Winamp myself, but he asked for a way to properly correct the filenames/metadata, not mask it.
- bjornski, on 10/04/2008, -0/+12Try using Musicbrains Picard to fix that.
I just went through and re-tagged my entire mp3 collection over the last few days with it (so it was funny seeing the article here now that I'm done using it). It's a wonderful tool, and can find pretty much anything but the most obscure tracks. It even helps when there have been 3-4 different releases of an album, and your "disc" is actually a collection of scattered singles from different sources. It can help you re-group them, and label them correctly as a "grouped" album. It's very nice.
I don't normally care much about the artwork (low priority for me), so I can't verify exactly how well it grabs that info, but for song tracks, groupings, and name-fixing and retagging, Picard is just incredible.
Thumbs way up for that software. - NathanielJ, on 10/05/2008, -2/+13@Culyt - Just because someone *can* get 80,000 songs doesn't mean it makes any sense to do so. Even if you listened to music for 10 hours a day and had your library on shuffle, you would only hear each song about once a year.
If I wanted to, I could go around to library sales to buy 50,000 books just so that I can say that I have 50,000 books. However, you know just as well as I do that I won't actually read all of those books or even really know what books I have. Same thing. Sometime during the last decade, MP3 collections turned into an internet "my penis is bigger than yours" type of deal, and it's really stupid. - gritta, on 10/04/2008, -4/+151. Put music in Winamp playlist
2. Right click -> Send To -> Auto-Tag
3. ???
4. Profit!! - WaryWolf, on 10/05/2008, -0/+11and all of your music is legit, is it?
cause if it were, you would have used a program like EAC to add the tags when you were ripping from the CD. - rauz, on 10/04/2008, -1/+12Ditto. 11882 songs atm, all 1027 albums have album art in 200x200 px and minutely corrected tags...too bad I can't keep the rest of my life as neatly organized.
I use iTunify to make some minor automated adjustments, such as correct capitalization. - vinceislegend, on 10/04/2008, -2/+12***** you, two of my friends died for Coldplay.
- centran, on 10/04/2008, -0/+10You might have used an older version before they switched to PUIDs to ID your music with the Picard tagger.
Almost all popular music like metallica should not be miss tagged with PUID. Although there are some rare cases.
This is why you don't dump your entire collection into musicbrains. You do it chunks at a time so you can make a quick glance through in the rightpane before you actually save the new data.
I recommend you give it another shot. It has vastly improved. Just download the new Picard version. - bjornski, on 10/04/2008, -0/+9Then you used it wrong.
It can take an attempt or two (or reading the instructions), but unless YOU oopsed on something, it's extremely accurate.
I didn't use it right the first time either, don't feel bad *Palin wink*. - webcrumb, on 10/04/2008, -0/+9The Godfather
http://users.forthnet.gr/the/jtclipper/ - cloudbrain, on 10/04/2008, -0/+8Yea. We haven't added foreign music to our databases yet. We've been looking in to it (and monitoring what percentage of our users would find this helpful). The amount of data available for non-english music is much more difficult to collect. This is definitely something we are looking in to and plan on adding in the future.
- oyflaaaayvin, on 10/04/2008, -1/+9I'm sure a lot of these programs get their information from a couple of main databases. I think Winamp uses GraceNote or something, but if you do use something like this...I recommend auto-tagging small batches of songs rather than the whole library. A lot of times the ID3 data can be wrong and you won't know which songs are correct and which ones are mislabeled until you go back through everything.
- tedrock, on 10/04/2008, -1/+9Been using MusicBrainz for a long time. I highly recommended it to all.
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