Too many mp3s!

i have roughly 4000 tracks taking up 20gb in my collection
Taking into account the original post(having 400gb)

400gb is roughly 80,000 tracks, each one taking up average of 4minutes so a total of 5333 hours or 222days or just over 7 months worth of music if he played it constantly 24/7.... thats insane
 
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2065 songs, 55GB (Lossless, ripped using EAC) and all completely self-tagged (Artist, Album Artist, Album, Year, Track number of how many, disk number, genre, composers, artwork from iTunes.) Still got a couple of stacks to rip but each CD takes about 20 minutes the way I do it :O. When I've added all my current albums I'll start making playlists :).
 
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dmpoole said:
Did I use?
I used a wonderful programme called Where Is It?
I still have the catalogue file and its 155 meg in size.
I wonder what happened to the disks because I actually left them in front of the wall where you would normally throw them into the trash.
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Typo?
I have used 'Where is it?' in the past works nicely for all files.
Glad you sorted out your pretty pointless addiction.
 
I keep around 10 - 15 Gb, delete most of mine every now and then to keep it tidy.

400 GB is just..... word.
3TB is laughable ;)
 
Hi all, just got around to actually doing this. Using Magic Tagger which seems like it will do the job I want, except it costs like £20.

Now, before I register I was wondering if anything else will do the job of taking a mass bunch of unorganised mp3's in a folder and arrange them all nicely into artist, album, etc for FREE?

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!



Edit:- NVM, using the Picard app now and it seems to do the job perfectly for free :)
 
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bledd. said:
i have 45 gig of music

i use tag & rename it sort them out

i have always used a good folder structure, and kept all 'random' mp3's in a 'zzz random' folder now i have...

Music 1 (all sorted, named and tagged correctly)
Music 2 (random odds and sods)

I spent about 3 hours making 100% sure all the files in Music 1 are perfect.
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Why did you waste 3 hours? When it would have taken about 10 mins with music brainz?
 
I have 80gbs worth of Music and only use iTunes to catalogue, check for duplicates and organise the folder structure. and to be honest, I think it does a good job.
 
Hehe, I have 28GB and thought that was a stupid amount. Doubt I'd ever be able to listent o 400GB's worth, that's insane.
 
Greenlizard0 said:
This is why I painstakingly sort out my files using this format :

Artist - Song (Remix), and put them into folders for albums. It's such a pain, but it means I don't need to use playlists or depend on reading tags. I just use the windows folder the files are in.
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this is what i do :)
 
LeperousDust said:
Loads of point in having all them depends on how you use your music library, i love the vast array of different music so i can suit my mood no matter what or grab similar tunes really easy. The more i have the more variety there is, and the less i have to ever think about what to actually put on.
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This. I don't want to listen to the same music over and over again. Having loads of artists and styles of music I can just look at what I've got and think "I haven't listened to that in ages, will play that now". :)

LeperousDust said:
Why did you waste 3 hours? When it would have taken about 10 mins with music brainz?
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Makes you feel like you are actually working hard. :o
 
I presently have 5513 songs which amounts to 45GB. Recently acquired a hi-fi and don't want to compromise on sound quality, so I'm in the process of replacing my MP3s, many of which I acquired via dubious means when I was younger and poorer, with Apple Lossless rips from the original CDs. It's gonna take a while, though.

As for organising, I have iTunes set to copy any music I add to my library folder. So long as your music is decently tagged, I don't think it matters how disorganised the file structure is, although in reality iTunes does a reasonable job. Currently, when I can be bothered, I'm going through my collection, tagging it correctly and finding the album art. The automated tools like MusicBrainz are pretty good for released albums/singles, but understandly don't quite cut it for more obscure stuff like early EPs, etc.

The duplicates problem annoys me. For example, I have pretty much the entire R.E.M. discography, which means I have some tracks up to four times. I don't want to waste the space storing three extra copies, but I don't want to delete them and ruin the albums. What's needed is a way to abstract the tagging info from the actual music data, so you could have one file appearing in multiple albums.
 
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Why did you waste 3 hours? When it would have taken about 10 mins with music brainz?
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I catalogued my entire collection (99.7GB, almost 100 :D) with Musicbrainz but I had to manually select a lot of the albums. No doubt it was down to them being tagged badly before. Initially I dropped all of them into Musicbrainz and let it do it automatically but I ended up with albums being split into several folders/artists and it was a complete mess :D.

Moral of the story: make a complete backup first if you're going to do this :).
 
when hdd space is so cheap, why would you want to get rid of duplicates like that? :cnfused:

As for tagging, musicbrainz

Pho said:
Moral of the story: make a complete backup first if you're going to do this :).
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Do one albumn or artist at a time. I would never let a tagger try to an entire collection. they would all get confused and there's no way you could track it.
 
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