MP3 Manager/Browser

BigBrisy · 24 Jul 2009 at 14:21

I was wondering if anyone knows if there are any MP3 managers that will automatically sort out the files by the foldername which your MP3's are kept in, i'm not even sure if there is an easy way of doing it though Windows Media Player or something? I have something similar already running for my movies where all i have to do is put my movie file into a folder and name the folder with the film that i've put in it, it then goes on and downloads the film descition, cover art and renames the video file accordingly....is there anything out there that does the same thing for MP3 albums?

Cheers

Kriist · 24 Jul 2009 at 14:37

itunes can do it

BigBrisy · 24 Jul 2009 at 14:41

Kriist said:
itunes can do it

Have to say i hate itunes with a passion, use different software for transfering music to my touch.

The main reason i'm doing this is so all my albums are tidy and in order and look the part on media center

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Guest2 · 24 Jul 2009 at 14:43

Cant you just sort them in windows explorer then drag them into a winamp playlist or something?

I hate iTunes too. Ive been using Winamp 2.5e from october 1999 since then. Its the fastest, plays tracks instantly and doesnt have any delay. I have tried many other versions of winamp and other software and nothing comes close IMO

Spooter · 24 Jul 2009 at 14:43

Yes im interested in this as well.

BigBrisy · 24 Jul 2009 at 14:51

Guest2 said:
Cant you just sort them in windows explorer then drag them into a winamp playlist or something?IMO

It would be a very long process to do it all manually through windows explorer especially considerring i've got 75gb worth of music

Guest2 · 24 Jul 2009 at 14:56

BigBrisy said:
It would be a very long process to do it all manually through windows explorer especially considerring i've got 75gb worth of music

Ive got 400gb of music. cds are organised like this (folders) Just drag and drop files into folders and folders into other folders

HipHop
Dance > house, trance, hard house, hard trance, psy trance...
Rock
Random
Chillout
Blues
D&B
Dub Step

BigBrisy · 24 Jul 2009 at 15:02

i'm also looking fpr something that will download the album covers and sort out the file names amd so on? if there is such a thing

james.miller · 24 Jul 2009 at 15:05

BigBrisy said:
I was wondering if anyone knows if there are any MP3 managers that will automatically sort out the files by the foldername which your MP3's are kept in

foobar2000.

jbloggs · 24 Jul 2009 at 15:05

MediaMonkey

The GodFather

Furton · 24 Jul 2009 at 15:06

Picard will tag and download album covers and place a copy of the image in the album folder. It's meant to move files as well into correct folders, although I've never used it.

http://musicbrainz.org/doc/PicardDownload

BigBrisy · 24 Jul 2009 at 15:16

If anyone has actually used any of the software mentioned in the above posts to do the same thing i'm after can you give me a quick idiots guide?

Ascendancy · 24 Jul 2009 at 15:25

Songbird has a built in Artwork downloader. Just goto tools -> Get Album Artwork and it'll go through your whole collection.

BigBrisy · 24 Jul 2009 at 15:26

Ascendancy said:
Songbird has a built in Artwork downloader. Just goto tools -> Get Album Artwork and it'll go through your whole collection.

But will it do this if the folder name for your album is not exact?

Ascendancy · 24 Jul 2009 at 16:43

It reads the Metatag data.