Managing an mp3 collection

[jjessico]

Are there any good tools out there for managing an mp3 collection? What do you guys use to organize your files and make playlists?

Thanks,
Jason

 

[Zugzwang152]

Originally posted by: jjessico
Are there any good tools out there for managing an mp3 collection? What do you guys use to organize your files and make playlists?

Thanks,
Jason

winamp is da bomb....

 

[her209]

I use Windows XP.

 

[Anubis]

winamp for playing them and makeing lists

i organized them myself by artist and album through windows

 

[datalink7]

First, organize your MP3s.

For me, it Goes My Music Folder--->Genre Folders (Classic Rock, Classical, Mood, etc.)--->Artists--->Albums

Then it is easy to set up playlists in winamp 3. Need a classic rock playlist? Create one and add all files in "My Music--->Classic Rock"

Also, it is then easy to add music when you get more songs.

 

[BennyD]

the best way to organise them is to start organising from scratch, then whenever you download/rip but them in the right place

been doin that for a few years now and have a nice uniform collection

 

[jjessico]

Yeah I use winamp to play the music, but manually creating playlists from a song library of over 8,000 songs it is hard to manage by hand other than basic Rock/Rap/Country classifications by folder. I was hoping there is a program out there than can creat a playlist for winamp (or another program if necessary) based on my mood or something. Like I can fire up a program, hit the "I feel like rocking out" button and have the proggie read the ID3 tags of all my mp3s and pull out all the hard rock or something.

Any ideas?

Jason

 

[thawolfman]

Winamp shuffle sucks

 

[jjessico]

Yeah its not the greatest.

 

[neomits]

Windows Media Player 9 has some very good organization. I use/like it.

Give it a try

 

[Anubis]

Here is how mine are organized.

this is a test file list of teh "My Music" folder on my comp

 

[illusion88]

Music Match Jutebox

 

[neomits]

Here is how mine are organized

 

[iamme]

from a tip here, use Tag&Rename if you need to edit lots of ID3 tags. works very well.

 

[schizoid]

Originally posted by: neomits
Here is how mine are organized

How didja get those album covers?

 

[KeyserSoze]

Originally posted by: iamme
from a tip here, use Tag&Rename if you need to edit lots of ID3 tags. works very well.

I got a question. I use Tag&Rename, but have problems with it. All my file names are correct, but I want it to go through, and change the id3 tags that way, based on the FILE name. I tried this, but it truncated the first letter of the title, and didn't seperate them into artist / title format.

Any ideas?




KeyserSoze

 

[iamme]

Originally posted by: KeyserSoze

Originally posted by: iamme
from a tip here, use Tag&Rename if you need to edit lots of ID3 tags. works very well.

I got a question. I use Tag&Rename, but have problems with it. All my file names are correct, but I want it to go through, and change the id3 tags that way, based on the FILE name. I tried this, but it truncated the first letter of the title, and didn't seperate them into artist / title format.

Any ideas?


KeyserSoze

i noticed this when there isn't a " - " between artist and title:

artist -title

instead of:

artist - title

are yours like this?

 

[KeyserSoze]

Originally posted by: iamme

Originally posted by: KeyserSoze

Originally posted by: iamme
from a tip here, use Tag&Rename if you need to edit lots of ID3 tags. works very well.

I got a question. I use Tag&Rename, but have problems with it. All my file names are correct, but I want it to go through, and change the id3 tags that way, based on the FILE name. I tried this, but it truncated the first letter of the title, and didn't seperate them into artist / title format.

Any ideas?


KeyserSoze

i noticed this when there isn't a " - " between artist and title:

artist -title

instead of:

artist - title

are yours like this?

Ok, I'm looking at it right now, and it's in the format:
artist - title

Is that RIGHT or WRONG? (I can just easily try it both ways I guess.)



KeyserSoze

 

[iamme]

when mine didn't have the space (artist -title or artist- title), i got messed up ID3 tags. other than that, i'm not sure. i've only been using the program for a few days.

 

[ProviaFan]

Windows Explorer for file names and folder organization (Music \ Artist \ Album), and UltraTagger for ID3V2 tags.