Mp3 collection tagging/sorting.

[TheVrolok]

I've still got like .. 4-5k songs that I've ripped over the years in various ways and I'd like to fix all the tags and file structure. I usually go Music/First Artist Letter/Artist/Album/Track # - Track Name and do it by ID3 tags. Anyone have a recommendation for software to help me with my sorting?

 

[nweaver]

perl + id3 tag reader ftw..

should be able to read the tag, change the name, check for the directory/make the directory and move the file.

You could also put error handling so it logs missing tags of files (for you to fill in later) and/or moves untagged/missing tags files to a specific location.

 

[drag]

Lots of applications do FS searching and keep a database of files that you can sort in any way you feel like, so the FS directory structure is less relevent.

Amarok is probably the best example of this. You can go in and edit songs metadata indivdually. Personally I use GMPC frontend for MPD, the music player daemon. It's just a sort of background service that just plays music.


For file system management a nice application to check out is 'midnight commander' or 'mc' from the command line. It's a dual-plain style file manager that runs from a terminal, so called 'orthodox' style manager. It's nice because it has a shell built into it so you can type out commands while doing operations in a fairly seemless way. It's very fast, very efficient in terms of user interface. The fastest way to manage files besides scripting. This is the fastest way to manually manage a lot of different files and a lot of different directories.

For automatic management of music files and mass id3 tagging I don't have any sort of recommendation. I know that some exist, but I never used them.

When looking for applications to try out a nice place to look for them is freshmeat.net It's a online website that houses a database of most known Linux software. You can pretty much always find what your looking for, although you need to pay attention to the last time something was updated. Lots of projects haven't had any usefull releases in a long time.

 

[Boztech]

I use MusicBrainz Picard myself. No manual editing.

http://musicbrainz.org/doc/PicardDownload

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

I just use AmaroK

 

[bucwylde23]

I use Media Monkey for tagging and downloading album art.

It uses Amazon for it's tags/art. I love it

I've used it on all 7k songs of mine, it also can export a list of all your music as HTML/XML/Excel spreadsheet.

It does a lot more stuff, but that is just what i use it for.