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

I'll stick with apple lossless ;) Going to move over to Mac in a short while anyway. Might as well keep it all in the family.

Just found a great ID3 tagging tool called audioshell. It seems really easy letting me add the cover images as I go...

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MarcLister said:
Sounds like me. :D :o
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Ditto :D. All my music is self-tagged AAC 320Kbit ripped using EAC in Secure Mode. All my music has the following tagged:
1) Release year
2) CD number/how many CDs
3) Genre
4) Track, artist (+feat. artists) and album
5) Composers (from album booklet)
6) iTunes 600X600 artwork (1425x1425 in some circumstances)
 
[DW]Muffin;10076755 said:
Bet it would look scweeht in Vista with all that album art
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looks something like that

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Pahhh =p

As anyone who knows me will say, my music libarary is PERFECT. if there is one track out of place i'll go mad! kept mine in top nick since i started it. Arond 5,000 tracks. Its managed by WMP11 so its pretty automatic, although i have to point it in the right direction sometimes.

Mine Goes

G:\FTP\Media\Music\Artist\Album\Track Number - Track Name.mp3

Would like to have it all @ 320kbps but far to late in the day to do that now :( but bar that its all perfect :cool:

Well done man.

ta

alec
 
I was just looking through my library on Vista and it looks sweeeeet!

This is inside an artists folder with the albums showing;

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Looks great! Also loving WMP11 with the library view, looks really nice and great to navigatea.
 
topgun06 said:
Woah, mine is only 3.68GB with 1,120 music files.
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holy low bitrate batman.... or are they just very short tracks? :eek:

mine:
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edit: those figures are a bit skewed. :o my mixes folder is 2.3gb and just 17 files. so mine really should be 11.1gb, 1473 tracks. :)
 
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topgun06 said:
Woah, mine is only 3.68GB with 1,120 music files.
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Jesus! are all your tracks, like, spoken audio books @ 7kbs? :P

11300 tracks, 68GB. And I intend to rip some of them to a higher bitrate - either that or go OGG :)
 
I have 53.4GB of music that needs sorting through. Fortunately, most of it is properly tagged (at least the stuff that I listen to). The reason it's not already tagged is because a lot of it was donated by a friend :p

LeperousDust said:
You don't realise how much ***** you just caused me... Well you learn from your mistakes. Everything was perfect until i copied it all over to my iPod, apparently iPod doesn't like a mix of mp3's and m4a's in the same tagged album and physical folder, made a complete and utter medd of it. So i've had to go back and try and back track all the files that are m4a (turns out about 1.4gb's worth) and covert them to mp3, then retag those, insert them back in the right folder stucture. Then i realise iTunes is totally USELSS at updating itself, nuked the library had to import them all again, now i'm just nuking the iPod and putting them all back on from the library.

How much on something going wrong and me losing everything within the next hour? :p :D


:( No happy...
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Alternatively, use decent firmware on your iPod :)
 
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Rockbox really isn't that great for, its a good idea, but its support isn't great, it can be slow to respond on the iPod Hardware sometimes, and it doesn't look as nice as the official iPod firmware... For gaining being able to play some open lossless formats (maybe some games i don't care about) etc. I lose more IMO.
 
LeperousDust said:
Rockbox really isn't that great for, its a good idea, but its support isn't great, it can be slow to respond on the iPod Hardware sometimes, and it doesn't look as nice as the official iPod firmware... For gaining being able to play some open lossless formats (maybe some games i don't care about) etc. I lose more IMO.
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Works wonderfully for me; so much richer in terms of features and it can be made to look much nicer than the standard iPod firmware :)

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You also don't need any software to put music on it: you can just stick the files in a folder how you want and it will build a database around them.
 
Wow, its imporves a HELL of a lot since i last played around with it... Is it still slow to react though? I remember that being a slight problem... Also you say it "can" be made to look good, does this require foobar-esque skills, because i just can't be bothered nor have the time really! One last thing, can i brick my iPod doing this? I'm quite happy with it in its working state at present ;)
 
LeperousDust said:
Wow, its imporves a HELL of a lot since i last played around with it... Is it still slow to react though? I remember that being a slight problem... Also you say it "can" be made to look good, does this require foobar-esque skills, because i just can't be bothered nor have the time really! One last thing, can i brick my iPod doing this? I'm quite happy with it in its working state at present ;)
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Afaik you can't brick an iPod with it, as it's just a load of files that the iPod runs instead of its built in firmware. The only thing which could potentially brick your iPod is modifying the boot record, but that's done in one go by a program so it shouldn't do any harm.

As for making it look good, it does sort of require foobar-esque skills, but if you can't be bothered you can just download a premade config for it; that screenshot above is from the jClix package, which is what I use.

And yeah it can still be slightly slow to react, but usually it's not a problem. Another great thing about it, though, is that if you put all the files on it with iTunes, rockbox can find and index them all without disrupting them at all, and since you can run the standard firmware without taking rockbox off, you can essentially just choose which to run whenever you want.
 
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