Media Monkey - I thought this was all I needed for a disaster music library?

[marmasatt]

Can someone explain Media Monkey to me like I'm a 5 year old please? I am one of those guys who has a music library of about 8 years and never really tagged anything.....ever. Some are tagged. Many are not. For instance, I have like 30 "song # 11's" in my library, etc.

I thought Media Monkey was the answer to all my troubles with auto tagging and getting rid of duplicates. But it didn't tag half the files I have and I can't find out how to get rid of the duplicates I do have.

Is it any better than itunes for this purpose? Am I doing it wrong? :'( Or is there something else out there?

 

[MrChad]

Mp3tag can clean up some of your files. Are just the ID3 tags messed up or are the file names incorrect too?

 

[JimKiler]

you have to right click an album of songs or a song and then you can auto tag from the web. But this sends you choices so you still have to manually pick the right album. I am sure there are other options but i have no qualms about doing it myself. Granted most of my stuff was correct. If I had to do a huge library you need something else. Media Monkey is still great for being a music player.

 

[marmasatt]

I got it for 2 purposes, 2 Tag stuff and get rid of duplicates. But it Tagged only like 30% of my collection and I can't figure out how to get rid of duplicates all in one shot. Can it not be done with the click of a button in the whole library? (I don't care how long it takes)

 

[AFurryReptile]

http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Picard/

Picard is a great set of utilities that will compare your music against their own rather large database. I've had GB's worth of music just stripped of id3d tags and it saved me a ton of work.