Organise Music Library

bunnynexus

I just backed up all my cds and put them onto media center. The songs listed are coming up correctly but with the wrong album name. Can some place let me know the best way to organise my music for media center. Is there an application I can download?

big_moe

i use winamp to do all my tagging and then xbmc for the front end to play it all back

eddiem74

http://www.mp3tag.de/en/screenshots.html

Ideo

perfect and free too -> http://musicbrainz.org/

big_moe

i've also used Foobar in the past which is pretty savage

http://www.foobar2000.org/

pug_

May as well add another one to the list...

http://www.mediamonkey.com/

Free version is perfect for organising large collections.

MoodeRator

Would there also be software to also grab album art automatically?
oh and is there a way of getting the itunes visualisations working in windows media player?

pug_

MediaMonkey does automatic album art grabbing.

I don't use itunes so can't help with that one.

Slaphead07

bunnynexus wrote: »

I just backed up all my cds and put them onto media center. The songs listed are coming up correctly but with the wrong album name. Can some place let me know the best way to organise my music for media center. Is there an application I can download?

http://www.mp3toys.net/ is pretty nifty.

MoodeRator

pug_ wrote: »

MediaMonkey does automatic album art grabbing.

I don't use itunes so can't help with that one.

Thanks Pug, but the version of MM that I use needs a manual search and tag. Can yio let me know whic hversion you need to do this automatically? thanks in advance

pug_

Ah apologies I misinterpreted how far you wanted to go with the automatic bit. Yes the same goes for me, I highlight the album that doesn't have art, right click and click 'get album art from web' or some such and off she goes.

I kind of prefer it this way, I know it takes a bit longer, but as at least I'll know what's being added is the correct album art. I don't know of any software that goes off and will automatically dump folder art into albums on the fly.

Ideo

This will automatically add album artwork to your music collection. Tried and trusted!! http://iartwork.net/

MoodeRator

Thank for that Ideo. Thought it seems to be just for iTunes, however once it is tagged I asume it is saved to the mp3 file and will work on any player then?