MP3 ID3 tags.....

[monobrow]

Reeeeet, A thread about iTunes reminded me of something to ask of the wider community....

I have a borrowed removable hard disk at the moment, with 150gigs of music for our studio. Only trouble is, we never had an internet connection when most of these were ripped, so most are just labeled by file name. Not very good when someone rings in a request and you need to search for it!!!! And the file structure is all to pot, but theres soooo much, filtering it manually would take an age!

So on to the question..... Does anyone out there know of a program that will not only re-organise these files, but look on the internet for ID3 tags and update the files? I tried using iTunes, and it just went wibble for a night and made a bloody hash of it!

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated ::

 

[MontyPlumbs]

Media Player 11 updates song info from the net

 

[monobrow]

hmmmmmm, might have to try that one. I did want it to re-organise them but if it gets the id3 tags sorted first, it'd probably do a better job of re-organising

 

[MontyPlumbs]

Just be aware it decides what IT wants to display - so you might find random info appearing on ur MP3 tags lol

 

[monobrow]

errrrrr well thats the last thing I need, 30,000 songs to sit through and check they are what the tags say they are Mind you, it's all part of the gamble!!!!

 

[MontyPlumbs]

Looks like you're gonna have to do it the old fashioned way - or maybe employ PS to help you?

 

[Sospan]

http://www.download.com/The-GodFather/3003-2141_4-10544451.html

This should sort out all your needs, I downloaded it a while back but not had time to give it a whirl, It has good reviews and is also FREE.
Let me know how you get on.

 

[monobrow]

I'll give it a whirl and let you know

 

[monobrow]

Don't move and copy first, I now have no files in the original directories, and it couldn't copy half (unknown reason)

Luckily this is just a copy of the library, because it's now bloody empty!!!!!

Might try it again, but updating tags before I moved them all.

Or I might wait untill we get our dedicated music server and rip the CD's again with the tags updated this time DT_Xtremez_35:

 

[Scaley brat]

Does anyone out there know of a program that will not only re-organise these files, but look on the internet for ID3 tags and update the files? I tried using iTunes, and it just went wibble for a night and made a bloody hash of it!

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated ::

Try getting a copy of Musicmatch Jukebox. if the files are named as such:
Artist-Album-Track number-track.
e.g.
Rush-hemispheres-03-The trees

Jukebox will write the ID3 tags of complete directories.

Hope this helps
DT_Xtremez_30:

 

[CodeMonkey]

Try getting a copy of Musicmatch Jukebox. if the files are named as such:
Artist-Album-Track number-track.
e.g.
Rush-hemispheres-03-The trees

Jukebox will write the ID3 tags of complete directories.

Hope this helps
DT_Xtremez_30:

There is a way of doing this for non windows users(read MAC/Linux) i used to use musicmatch juke box years ago it was a great program then, should be usefull enough to you now

 

[monobrow]

Music match it is then, once I go get another full copy of the library DT_Xtremez_25: