I've just tagged ALL my music library...!

LeperousDust

LeperousDust

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I've just finished tagging ALL of my music library, also renamed and set in a consistent folder structure. Consolodating all the odds and end tracks, deleting strange stand alone tracks i don't know how i acquired! Every tag is perfect down to the year of release, all with real album art saved as folder.jpg per album folder and embedded in every ID3 v3.2tag. Only thing i've left out is genre because its just opinion based...

I feel like i deserve a nodel prize, it took bloody forever but now its done its so satisfying to be able to find ANYTHING! As much as i'm not a fan of iTunes (all my mates use it so it makes sense for me to have it too so they can listen to my music when we party) cover flow is awesome when everything is perfect, as well as the album view too.

WMP11 looks great as well too! :D

May not be as much as some of you guys, "only" 18.35Gb (according to iTunes) and 3749 tracks but i can't begin to describe how unorganised it was.

I do not know why i'm posting this but i just thought i'd share as i feel i've finally regained control of my music! :)
 
I re-ripped my music collection earlier this summer using EAC for the ripping and Media Monkey for the tagging seeing as I thought Winamp wasn't up to the task.

Done them all now, nearly 6000 songs. I don't really bother with album art at the moment although I might if I find a Winamp skin I like that supports album art OR I move to foobar and get that set up proper.

It is a nice feeling when you finish isn't it! :D
 
I hate using external software to read my music, I prefer labelling everything myself, it's a pain in the ass sometimes and very arduous but well worth it in my opinion..
 
Its a relief in truth, didn't think it would ever end... :(
I've put album art in, because i can see a lot of MP3 players using it in the future and i thought while i'm at it might as well, iTunes and WMP11 support it visually very well, i have foobar too, it's set to audio player as default and i have it as stripped down as possible. So i can use windows explorer to browse music and foobar to play. But if i want things to look nice i've got iTunes (for friends but i'm also warming to it) and WMP11 both set to look at my Library but both set up so they're not allowed to mess with it.
 
I can see that in the future album art will be quite useful. I'm thinking about getting a new iPod and album art would be quite useful for that.
 
Yeah i've got a 5.5g iPod i picked up second hand that i can now actually use properly :D That was also part reason for doing this... Now i "just" need to put all the music on it now, no simple task itself...
 
i started tagging my files correctly from the moment i ripped my first cd. i always like to be on top of it. it amuses me when people say they have 50gb worth of untagged music and they want to sort it. why didn't they think about it when they had 1gb? 5gb 10gb?

and once you've tagged your files perfectly, there's nothing worse than a media player (pointing my finger at wmp11 here), thinks it knows better and starts messing with your tags. grrrr that makes me mad. :D
 
If you want to make your collection perfect a certain new iTunes album art grabber can grab album artwork from itunes at 1425X1425!! Granted, not all artwork is that resolution, 90% is 600x600.
 
Meatball said:
If you want to make your collection perfect a certain new iTunes album art grabber can grab album artwork from itunes at 1425X1425!! Granted, not all artwork is that resolution, 90% is 600x600.
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Can you elaborate?

edit: is it Josh's iTunes Album Art Grabber?
 
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what software did you use OP ?

what sort of folder structures ? into artist then discs ?


i sorted all my albums out but i have 1000s of singles and ep s that need sorting out a bit :(
 
Yeah get album art is good from iTunes, but it doesn't save the art to the ID3 tag itself so the iPod still doesn't have the album art. You need to embed the art in the MP3 file itself.

iTunes keeps its own database for album art, but you can force it (manually album by album! :() to save them to the tag, and thats what i've done with a few. Another problem is you need an account which is hassle (that i went through anyway probably worth it). Also the album itself needs to be on the iTunes store and a lot of mine weren't...
 
"andy" said:
what software did you use OP ?

what sort of folder structures ? into artist then discs ?


i sorted all my albums out but i have 1000s of singles and ep s that need sorting out a bit :(
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I've got rid of all my singles, creates too much fuss. All but a few singles that are out without albums.

I used Music Brainz Picard QT (different version and you can add an album art grabber too as a plugin).

Folder structure for albums is:
Artist\Album\Track No. - Title.mp3

For compilations its:
Compilations\Album\Track No. - Title.mp3 (but tag includes the right track artist)
 
recently did all mine then foolisly installed ITunes and it messed everything up so had to spend ages moving all my mp3s back to ther original folders etc. So i just stick with winamp and WMP11 now.
 
I didn't have that many singles and a lot overlapped with my existing albums, but i'll keep in mind the singles folder makes sense i suppose. Just wrecks the look in i tunes coverflow (because you get so many more covers!). So i may just stick to only ripping/aquiring albums (when available).
 
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