Help Organizing MP3's & file folders

With my time off & while on Daddy Duty, I've been organizing my man-cave of an office an actually was able to piece together a working desktop PC from several old skeletons. As part of this I started looking through the contents of the multiple loose hard drives I had laying around as well as a couple of external drives. I have come across tons of old photos and about 400 Gigs of Music. I have always organized my MP3 files in individual album or live show folders usually nested in artist and or Year of show folders. The problem I am facing is that on each of these 6 hard drives I have stashes of music some of which is duplicated some of which is not. Worse yet, I may in some cases have the same music in folders with similar but not identical names. Without losing my folder organization by just letting winamp or itunes compile its own library folder are there any apps to help organize this mess without me just physically doing it folder by folder? My music is probably 70% live bootleg shows and the rest albums. What is the most useful lookup/tagging software these days. I used to use Musicmatch Jukebox which did a great job but it seems to have become obsolete.

Please excuse that I stopped l keeping track of audio software about 8 years ago.

Decider: Admin

You could google mp3 tag editors. The top one on my search turned up this: http://www.mp3tag.de/en/-

Format C: will also help get rid of your problem.

I keep mine in labeled Tupperware containers. Old-school, but it works well.

  • mundhra

  • May12 '10

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you should be able to throw them all in one place and then use this, culling manually.

although if you have duplicates of kris kross or hanson albums from different places (different sizes and names) you're meep out of luck.

i guess i really didn't answer your question, though. here's what lifehacker says. don't forget to check out the others.

On 2010-05-12 at 17:05:05, mundhra asked to smell your meep

If you want to make a project out of it and really get it done right:

[url]http://lifehacker.com/230105/alpha-geek-whip-your-mp3-library-into-shape-part-i-+-level-the-volume[/url]

[url]http://lifehacker.com/231476/alpha-geek-whip-your-mp3-library-into-shape-part-ii-+-album-art[/url]

[url]http://lifehacker.com/233336/alpha-geek-whip-your-mp3-library-into-shape-part-iii-metadata[/url]

Have not tried this.

I used mediamonkey a few years back to help me organize my collection. It does a pretty good job, but, as with anything, a lot of manual pruning and sifting was needed to get it exactly how i like it. I started processing everything I downloaded thru it, but then that became a big task and i kinda gave up on it. so....yeah, my mp3 collection is in disarray again. Can't say how well it'll work for bootlegs and such, if it can't find it in an online index, there's probably not much it (or any other tool) will do for you.

Well, MusicBrainz is great for auto tagging stuff.

As for organization... I'd go with what LK posted to dedupe your collection. Or for a more simple way, maybe an app like Floola. Also, I found a nice BASH script to find duplicates HERE. Comparing by MD5 and then name would be ideal. It all depends on how much time you want to put into this.

HTH

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