I need to organize my music collection

[gogeeta13]

Heres the deal...

I've been ripping music for a long time and I now have a music collection of 90 gigs. However, I have switched between using many different ripping programs and as such, my files have a bunch of different naming conventions. I also have a lot of music which I ripped without a cd database and I manually typed in song titles and such. As a result of that, I made a lot of minor errors in formating such as "Dave Matthews Band" versus "Dave Matthew's Band" versus "DMB."

My music is in some folders, some not folders. I have tried a couple organizer programs over the years but never found one that worked well enough to use with my entire collection. So as a result, I have a lot of duplicate folders, duplicate files, etc.

I need a program that can take all my music and first properly tag all the songs, then remove the duplicates(and have some sort of process where I can select which copy of the song to keep), then finally sort them into folders of /Artist/Album/song.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

 

[LostWanderer]

Best I've used is MediaMonkey. I have a link for it around here somewhere, but if you Google I'm sure you'll find it. Very helpful program and I'm not sure what I did without it.

Good luck.

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[13Gigatons]

http://musicbrainz.org/

 

[marulee]

Humm... I would do it manually. If you use a 'free' program, there is always an obligation on certain stuff.

 

[ryan256]

MP3 Tag! Its free and works wonderfully. You can extract items like artist and title from the file name & vice versa. Rename whole batches of files to fit a common naming scheme.

 

[Schadenfroh]

I rip using Cdex / LAME and I use iTunes to edit the ID3 Tags.

 

[smack Down]

Itunes does everything you listed.

 

[midwestfisherman]

iTunes