Comments on: 4 Easy Ways Fix Music Tags & Organize Music Library http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/the-ultimate-guide-to-fixing-your-music-collection/ Cool Websites, Software and Internet Tips Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: DocMo http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/the-ultimate-guide-to-fixing-your-music-collection/#comment-435180 DocMo Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:39:07 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=11758#comment-435180 Im using MusicBrainz Picard in lunix (linux/unix). Basically I had 10 gigs of music all in one music folder that I riped from my ipod because somehow all my music was erased and it was backed up on the ipod. Anyway Picard is GREAT! You click the 'cluster' button and it scans the music and clusters all them by artist. Okay after this It did not cluster about 437 songs because they were tagged horribly from the program that ripped them from my ipod. Next I clicked on the unmatched files and go 'scan' this then scans the files individually and looks up the album info then categorizing them in an album. You might have to click on options then check the box that says 'rename files' and 'move files' if you want this.. worked amazing for my music collection. Now my music folder has subdirs of artists and inside are the albums. I have a super sluggish internet connection and It worked in no time at all looking up the album information from the internet. Reorganized my whole music folder in about ten minutes including installing Picard from synaptic.. Picard is super lightweight download on 56k connections. 2 thumbs up. Im using MusicBrainz Picard in lunix (linux/unix). Basically I had 10 gigs of music all in one music folder that I riped from my ipod because somehow all my music was erased and it was backed up on the ipod. Anyway Picard is GREAT! You click the ‘cluster’ button and it scans the music and clusters all them by artist. Okay after this It did not cluster about 437 songs because they were tagged horribly from the program that ripped them from my ipod. Next I clicked on the unmatched files and go ‘scan’ this then scans the files individually and looks up the album info then categorizing them in an album. You might have to click on options then check the box that says ‘rename files’ and ‘move files’ if you want this.. worked amazing for my music collection. Now my music folder has subdirs of artists and inside are the albums. I have a super sluggish internet connection and It worked in no time at all looking up the album information from the internet. Reorganized my whole music folder in about ten minutes including installing Picard from synaptic.. Picard is super lightweight download on 56k connections. 2 thumbs up.

]]> By: Richard http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/the-ultimate-guide-to-fixing-your-music-collection/#comment-432529 Richard Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:29:13 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=11758#comment-432529 none of them; I'd use JRiver Media Jukebox or Media Center; it's windows only. Media Jukebox is free and is a fantastic music playback and management program which will lookup tags, allows multiple simultaneous edits; has fingerprint technology based on its own library and will rename your music to match the tags. It has album art in its library and will add it to a file or into tags. It also allows the use of a URL, or image on the clipboard to be the source of album art... quite simply this is fantastically convenient functionality I haven't seen anywhere else. The only reason i'm not using it anymore is because I have chosen to use Ubuntu (GNU/Linux). R none of them; I’d use JRiver Media Jukebox or Media Center; it’s windows only. Media Jukebox is free and is a fantastic music playback and management program which will lookup tags, allows multiple simultaneous edits; has fingerprint technology based on its own library and will rename your music to match the tags.

It has album art in its library and will add it to a file or into tags. It also allows the use of a URL, or image on the clipboard to be the source of album art… quite simply this is fantastically convenient functionality I haven’t seen anywhere else.

The only reason i’m not using it anymore is because I have chosen to use Ubuntu (GNU/Linux).

R

]]> By: Morpheus http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/the-ultimate-guide-to-fixing-your-music-collection/#comment-428815 Morpheus Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:01:52 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=11758#comment-428815 I believe that as of version 7 of Helium Music Manager THAT'S the best music manager out there since it has also become FREE. It has a much better looking interface and cooler faetures, like the tag editor that is designed as a spread sheet (rocket-fast tagging). They also have a really cool web application now that lets you stream your music to any computer. http://www.music-streamer.com I believe that as of version 7 of Helium Music Manager THAT’S the best music manager out there since it has also become FREE. It has a much better looking interface and cooler faetures, like the tag editor that is designed as a spread sheet (rocket-fast tagging). They also have a really cool web application now that lets you stream your music to any computer.

http://www.music-streamer.com

]]> By: TechHelpSite http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/the-ultimate-guide-to-fixing-your-music-collection/#comment-428804 TechHelpSite Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:53:28 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=11758#comment-428804 Yes MediaMonkey does the tagging for free that these others charge for. Plus all sorts of extra features. It is THE best music management app (free or paid) available. The only other PLAYER that might be better for the very fussy is Foobar but Media Monkey has more management and tagging features and all for Free (though support through the cheap Gold upgrade is recommended) :) Yes MediaMonkey does the tagging for free that these others charge for. Plus all sorts of extra features. It is THE best music management app (free or paid) available. The only other PLAYER that might be better for the very fussy is Foobar but Media Monkey has more management and tagging features and all for Free (though support through the cheap Gold upgrade is recommended) :)

]]> By: Rohaana http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/the-ultimate-guide-to-fixing-your-music-collection/#comment-426021 Rohaana Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:26:24 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=11758#comment-426021 Hi, i've been using SongGenie (fixes titles) & CoverScout (finds covers) and find them a great help in making my music library complete on my MacBook- just thought I'd let you know since you asked for suggestions.. have you tried them? Hi, i’ve been using SongGenie (fixes titles) & CoverScout (finds covers) and find them a great help in making my music library complete on my MacBook- just thought I’d let you know since you asked for suggestions.. have you tried them?

]]> By: Fix Your iTunes http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/the-ultimate-guide-to-fixing-your-music-collection/#comment-423137 Fix Your iTunes Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:03:26 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=11758#comment-423137 Hi I've been using Fix Your iTunes and it works awesomely. I hated having missing album artwork songs with missing info like genres, song names or artist names. I love it even more that I've synced my music that was fixed on to my 160GB iPod and all the mp3s have the correct information and especially the album artwork is there. I hated having blank album artwork and now I have all the cool graphics that come with the music. It rocks! Hi I’ve been using Fix Your iTunes and it works awesomely. I hated having missing album artwork songs with missing info like genres, song names or artist names. I love it even more that I’ve synced my music that was fixed on to my 160GB iPod and all the mp3s have the correct information and especially the album artwork is there. I hated having blank album artwork and now I have all the cool graphics that come with the music. It rocks!

]]> By: Duncan http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/the-ultimate-guide-to-fixing-your-music-collection/#comment-389373 Duncan Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:16:35 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=11758#comment-389373 So with these (I'm using Tune-Up)... what's with all the Chinese? More importantly, how do I fix it? They may own us, but I don't know the language... at least not yet. ;-) So with these (I’m using Tune-Up)… what’s with all the Chinese?

More importantly, how do I fix it?

They may own us, but I don’t know the language… at least not yet. ;-)

]]> By: Stefan Neagu http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/the-ultimate-guide-to-fixing-your-music-collection/#comment-381494 Stefan Neagu Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:54:53 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=11758#comment-381494 TuneUp i know for sure updates the metadata in the file. TuneUp i know for sure updates the metadata in the file.

]]> By: chris http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/the-ultimate-guide-to-fixing-your-music-collection/#comment-381482 chris Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:06:36 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=11758#comment-381482 so I am not super tech savy. I bought Fixtunes and it pretty much blows. In addtion to misnaming the crap out of stuf, it fixes the tags at the "libray" level via Itunes. I want to fix the metadata on the actual mp3 in the folder in windows. DO these programs do that or just at th library level like Fixtunes? so I am not super tech savy. I bought Fixtunes and it pretty much blows. In addtion to misnaming the crap out of stuf, it fixes the tags at the “libray” level via Itunes. I want to fix the metadata on the actual mp3 in the folder in windows. DO these programs do that or just at th library level like Fixtunes?

]]> By: Morpheus http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/the-ultimate-guide-to-fixing-your-music-collection/#comment-379473 Morpheus Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:36:49 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=11758#comment-379473 You should give Helium Music Manager a try. It includes lots of tagging options, including downloading meta data and pictures from online sources through the help of plug-ins. Some of the supported sources are freedb, Amazon.com, Google Image Search, Yahoo Image Search, Last.fm, Discogs.com and some lyrics plug-ins. You should give Helium Music Manager a try. It includes lots of tagging options, including downloading meta data and pictures from online sources through the help of plug-ins. Some of the supported sources are freedb, Amazon.com, Google Image Search, Yahoo Image Search, Last.fm, Discogs.com and some lyrics plug-ins.

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