MP3 management

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Due to my wide range in musical taste, my MP3 collection is getting rather large and out of hand.
I quite like Itunes' functionality and use it for all my Podcasts and music listening, but it falls a tad short when it comes to "logicaly naming" my files.

Is there a program, that will batch rename the MP3's logically (song number, artists, album) so I dont have a long tail of crap like in this following image.

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thanks
 
If you rip Cd's with audiograbber it can arrange them in folders for artist, album, and it can create the ID2/3 tages with all the info you need.

I used a MP3 management program a few years ago, I think it was called "tag renamer" or something and it could change the tags on mp3's.

I also use "listmaker" to create HTML and M3U lists of my MP3's.
 
foobar allows me to rename multiple files with common attributes.

E.g, I can select a group of files with inconsistent artist names, although I know they're all from the same artist, and then rename them all with the click of a button.

However, unique identifiers such as title and comments, I have to do by hand.
 
greenlizard0 said:
I do it all by hand e.g. creating folders...subfolders etc etc. It's painstaking but worth as you know where everything is immediately.
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I started out like this but once you have around 10,000 different MP3's to sort it becomes a little boring :o :eek:
 
greenlizard0 said:
I do it all by hand e.g. creating folders...subfolders etc etc. It's painstaking but worth as you know where everything is immediately.
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why do that when EAC can rip it straight into your collection with the folders etc that you want!
 
bledd. said:
why do that when EAC can rip it straight into your collection with the folders etc that you want!
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I didn't know stuff like that existed years ago when I first started ripping, so I guess it's just an old habit really. I'm used to doing it by hand and well, it's one less bit of software I don't have to install I suppose..
 
Personally use Media player 11 do it for me - very handy, it will rename mp3s, fill out all the id3 tags and rearrange into artist\album\ folders. :-)
 
greenlizard0 said:
I didn't know stuff like that existed years ago when I first started ripping, so I guess it's just an old habit really. I'm used to doing it by hand and well, it's one less bit of software I don't have to install I suppose..
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how do you name yours?

i do..

X:\Music\Artist\(Year) AlbumName\Artist - 01 - Songname.mp3
 
Just been testing out mediamonkey its very very good. havnt tryed updated media info from the net as mine is near perfect and dosent need anything doing to it. but has helped me find a few duplicate tracks that have slipped through the net. turn everything into mp3s (had some wma's laying about) and find one or two tracks with screwed up tags.

very good piece of software
 
D:\Winamp\Artist\Album name\Track number - Song name.mp3

Thinking about changing the root folder name from Winamp to something else? Any suggestions? Now I use EAC (cheers bledd) for CD ripping and whatever MP3 tagger I find most useful, Winamp is fast losing its monopoly as CD ripper/MP3 tagger/media player.

D:\Music justs sounds so boring and generic. Can't think what I should rename it to!

:)

Also used MediaMonkey for re-ripping my CD collection a few weeks ago. Very good program I thought.
 
E:\Applications\Appname\appname.exe/msi etc < obvious enough but needs sorting out

E:\Medi\Music\Artist\Album\01 Song name.mp3

E:\Media\Movies\Movie Name\Movie Name.avi < obvios enough all my dvd rips

E:\To Be Sorted\ < stuff ive not got around to arranging else where (default download folder aswell)


thats my folder layout for my "stuff" lol.
 
bledd. said:
how do you name yours?

i do..

X:\Music\Artist\(Year) AlbumName\Artist - 01 - Songname.mp3
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X:\Albums\Artist - AlbumName\01 - Artist - Songname.mp3

I think that the other reason why I got used to doing it by hand is that years ago not all cd's had the info I required (above) digitally encoded on the disc such that a third party piece of software could use it to name the Mp3 it had just encoded.

Or if it had, not enough was present. E.g. a lot of trance tracks will have had a seperate artist featuring on them that I will have wanted to put into the file name itself.

Also I have had two occasions where bizarrely enough the person who remixed a song was mentioned on the CD sleeve - but not on the information the CD yielded once in my computer.
 
If you import all your music collection in to a copy of iTunes I believe there is an option to extract all files into names folders automatically. But this will mean you have to have enough space to duplicate your collection, and I don't think it will rename the actual file names. I don't have much iTunes experience so forgive me if wrong.
 
green lizard, give this a shot..

http://bleddyn.co.uk/files/EAC.exe

double click it once to install (silent install), link will be in start menu, open the program, press F9, then go to Filename, and replcae the code with this..

%A - %C\%N - %A - %T


click Directories to choose a directory for it to rip to (default set by me is C:\mp3)


if you have scratched cd's, then press F10, choose Extraction Method : Secure Mode

works a lot faster in Burst Mode, but Secure will have no errors on bad discs usually
 
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