What are Reddit's favorite Mp3 Tag Editor Apps?
MediaMonkey
Burn
AIMP
TagScanner
Tag&Rename
Mp3tag
MusicBrainz Picard
Gracenote
Sayonara Player
Meta
jetAudio
Kid3
MP3 Diags
mp3DirectCut
Puddletag
Jaangle
aTunes
AudioShell
SongKong
Tagr
mufin
CoolPlayer
MP3 Book Helper
ID3-TagIT
bliss
taghycardia
Top Reddit reviews mentioning Mp3 Tag Editor Apps:
...what? i don't know what to say, for me especially music players are where the linux 'ecosystem' really shines, there are so many of them. i guess tastes/opinions really differ...
https://sayonara-player.com/ maybe try this? i've heard that modern people like it...
There are a few that are good enough for music management, but they don't seem to sync up with iOS devices as well as iTunes itself does (I'm assuming that's a requirement here).
I'd say give MediaMonkey a look. It seems to be the one with most features (including iOS device syncing) and it's free too. I've used it myself in the past and found it pretty easy to get to grips with.
MediaMonkey is 10x better than iTunes for managing your music library if anyone is interested in an alternative. It's a fine player too. The interface is not quite the eye-candy that apple's products are, but it's pretty great.
I used MediaMonkey for about 5,000 files. It took me around 3-4 hours to rename all the songs, update ID3 tags, get album art, and move to proper folder. It's time-consuming still, but you only have to do it once. If I trusted the automatic tools a little better, it would have taken even less time.
I'm not a paid tech support guy like some of ya'll but I put a bunch of portable apps
It has grown a LOT. It used to come with a set of default apps. Now there's so many they don't even bother trying.
- AntRenamer
- Notepad++
- XAMPP (i used to run this on my flash drive 3-4 flash drives ago)
- BPBible (because i run the tech at a church)
- NetHack (never played it but i have it for the cred)
- Gimp (all day every day. always need gimp)
- Filezilla
- Lynx oh snap there's a portable Lynx... way back memories righ thtere.
- Firefox
- uTorrent (not always for piracy)
- Audacity
- VLC
- CoolPlayer+
- LibreOffice
- ClamWin
- 7Zip
- SIW
- texter
- TeamViewer
- Toucan
- VVV
- Zint Barcode Studio
and a few others like - TagScan (because I can get lost in the soothing process of properly tagging MP3s)
man that list gets longer everytime I come back to look at it. If I ever remake my utility drive I'll be throwing on a lot more.
MediaMonkey all the way. I use it to rip all my CDs and convert them to FLAC. I organize them with proper tags and file names. I then sync the collection with my iPod, which means that all the songs are automatically converted to mp3s.
I've been using media monkey gold for years. Amazing program, plays flac and other loss less codecs, can still sync your apple device. There's a free version that's just as functional! check it out. http://www.mediamonkey.com/
Video CD? Really? What year is this?! =)
For what it's worth, I think Burn will author VCD. It's not been updated in quite some time, but I think still works on modern systems.
A couple of days ago I mentioned that I'm planning to work on an application to find missing/ out of order tracks in your music library.
I've found this free software which already does this (and loads more) quite well. It's not perfect but I've already found that I had Who Will Survive in America as track 2 on MBDTF and Liquid Swords in completely the wrong order.
P.S. - No affiliation to the software. It's free, open source and cross platform so check it out if you have a sizeable music library.,
media monkey. i just throw music in a folder and i tell the program to sort it by artist, then make a subfolder by album and done. you just have to make sure the mp3 tags are accurate. there are scipts that do all kinds of stuff to the tags too.
You would be surprised just how frighteningly powerful MediaMonkey is. Alongside Photoshop and a small handful of games, it's the only reason I still have a Windows partition on my computer.
http://www.mediamonkey.com/ ,works great with syncing ipod and iphone,send me a message if you want the full registered version,you should give t a go,i've been using it for two years,i have 150k songs
I can't live without tag & rename. You can fix metadata in bulk, and you can also rename all the files using metadata. This is useful if you like to have your mp3s named and organised in a consistent way.
The program can fill metadata fields either from the file name or it can use online database searches as well to fill it in.
My favorite player in terms of features (and free) is Mediamonkey. You can use Winamp plugins with it afaik. The downside is that it's ugly, so if like me, you care about that, Musicbee seems like the middleground between a full featured musicplayer, and something like foobar which can be very pretty. So Musicbee is what I'm using currently, and I really like it.
sorry for poor formatting, I don't have RES and forgot how to links.
MediaMonkey is hands down the best music library manager on windows. It flawlessly handles my 150k song library with quick startup times and searching. It stores metadata in an sqlite database so you can correct info without altering the files (thus you can still seed). It also supports any plugin that works with winamp.
MediaMonkey is the best thing that ever happened to me.... download now. Also, download CopyTrans for seamless transfers to your iphone/ipad/ipod/etc
I've found MediaMonkey to be very straightforward when it comes to organizing and tagging entire music collections. TuneUp is also very handy if you don't want to put in any effort into fixing up your music collection.
Tag and Rename. I first started using this fantastic utility over 10 years ago when I started the arduous task of properly tagging my music collection. I use it less frequently now but for a huge job, nothing beats it IMO when it comes to quickly getting the job done. Once you learn the keyboard shortcuts it is VERY fast. http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm
Tag&Rename is the industrial strength tagging editor, great for mass tagging and cataloguing large music collections, simple to use and will give you access to all fields that the ID3v2 standard provides. I've been using it for years, and it's one of the few programs I paid for voluntarily.
I've tried this before with an iPod Classic, and honestly installing iTunes is by far the easiest way and induces less headaches. You can do what I do and use iTunes solely for syncing music with your phone but use your player of choice (MediaMonkey for me) for actual playback. You can sync the music using MediaMonkey but you have to install iTunes anyways to get the drivers.
http://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index.php/WebHelp:iPod_Synchronization/4.0
you can use media monkey the wiki for how is here Media Monkey is free software that works better than itunes in my opinion and you can use it to sync almost any mp3 player with apple products included.
There's a problem with your argument: Apple doesn't want third-party programs to interact with iOS devices for things like sync. Notice that MediaMonkey has to update its software to support new iOS versions. (Rather, the thing I'm pointing out about that page is that iOS 7 required a MM update.) Also note that the MM instructions need you to keep iTunes installed to work with iOS devices. This is because iTunes installs extra pieces so that the iOS device will accept the connection and sync, rather than just show the computer its photos.
I used foo_dop for a while, back when it was actually being updated. But like the jailbreak I had on my phone, there was a waiting period after every iOS and iTunes update to make sure everything else would work with it. New iTunes updates would break foo_dop, especially if it coincided with a major iOS update. Because Apple was iterating the cat-and-mouse game of blocking off the sync functionality.
There's another, more basic reason, though. foobar2000 isn't designed to be used as a sync hub. If it were, there would be MTP support somewhere, either built-in or as an optional plugin. It's designed to act just as a music player, with or without a library backing it. Sync never entered the picture, and probably won't unless they get the mobile fb2k thing off the ground. I love fb2k to death, and hate iTunes, but I still keep iTunes around for iTunes Match and the music store.
If the files are already tagged and you just want the files to be renamed I recommend MediaMonkey
and of course people will always recommend Tag&Rename
Media Monkey. Does everything Itunes does, and doesn't fuck up your system with Apple crapware. Apple's greed makes Microsoft in the old days look like the Buddha. I was So happy the day I threw away my last Apple device and uninstalled the last scrap of their code. Good riddance. Now I can do stuff like copy text files onto my 16GB portable storage device (something Apple doesn't allow).
This is going to sound like a bit of an advertisement, but I prefer MediaMonkey; CopyTrans and Sharepod are too cumbersome if you don't want to do absolutely everything manually, and Foobar's iPod component is very slow for me.
I don't think that the second one is possible. You can only add a non-steam game to steam for the computer it's on, I think.
The first one is actually very possible, and it's a great idea. Can't believe it didn't occur to me, it's actually how this is supposed to be done.
What you need to do is rip all of the discs as .iso files, then put them on the flash drive, then run the .iso files on your mac. Apparently .cdr files work on Mac too, so if the program I linked makes those (assuming the computer with the burner is a Mac) then that's cool too. I think.
Note that I have almost no experience with Macs. This is what I found by googling. I'm pretty sure it's correct, but if it's not, my bad yo.
For ripping, you'll need a special program. Some computers come with them, otherwise download Imgburn onto the computer with the disc drive if it's a Windows computer. If it's a mac, you can try using Burn instead.
Then once the flash drive is in your mac, follow these instructions.
How did you burn it? If you just burnt the image to a disc through the Finder then it won't work. You need to use Disk Utility or something similar. The best program I've used for burning images is Burn. Under the "Copy" tab, drag the disk image onto the Burn window and click the "Burn" button. It's always worked for me, Linux disk images included.
TBH - and this might be tought to hear, even if it was MP problem its likely not in their best interest to help fix the issue. As you stated its a small town theater, so there is likely not a revenue share they are getting from that theater nor will there be in the future and its only servicing a small percentage of users. If it was an AMC or Regal type then maybe.
I would get with the owner ASAP and volunteer to help him fix this. I know its not YOUR problem, but you are affected and yelling poor pitiful me isn't going to help unfortunately. Its been a cheap fix to use the "unlisted" showtime button up until now - kinda like using duct tape and zip ties to hold the bumper on, but now its broke and time for inspection so its time to properly fix it.
Having the owner fix this will also help with other sites and google listings as well, its REALLY in his best interest to get this sorted. It might take a few hours or more, but it'll be worth it for the foreseeable future. I deal with people telling me "No" all the time on the phone, so I kindly tell them to get me someone above them that can say "Yes" and I won't hang up, or I keep calling back again and again. Squeaky wheel gets the grease. Or if that doesn't work have him call the neighboring theater and ask them how they get the right showtimes, maybe he's submitting in the incorrect format or something like that.
I borrowed this from r/MoviePass FAQ page.
How does Moviepass get movie pricing and movie showtimes? There're currently two industry standards Webedia and Gracenotewhich all apps use including Fandango and movietickets.com. If your movie theater is not listed on moviepass, it's probably because it's not listed on Webedia. A theater must use: https://webediamoviespro.com/get-listed/ or http://www.gracenote.com/contact-us-form/ to get listed
TL;DR - Offer to help fix the online times, even if its not your problem.
It uses Gracenote for audio detection and it's been awhile since I read their privacy policy but it doesn't record the audio, it only reports whatever triggers the app to play ads and it's nothing that can personally identify you.
There is nothing in Perk's privacy policy about collecting audio.
Edit: Gracenote is a totally separate company from Perk and has been used for years to identify audio.
Edit 2: Relevant links.
I used MediaMonkey as a library & tag manager. It'll auto-rename as well, auto-tag from the internet, etc. No idea how it compares to some of the other software listed in here.
Ah, for music. I was thinking about video.
If the metadata is wonky, you're probably going to have trouble getting any media server to handle that well.
If the filename/folder structure is perfect, you might try using MediaMonkey or a similar tool to populate the ID3 tags based on the filename.
Tools > Options > Auto-Tag from Filename
I have a couple Macs and they run iTunes just fine - but then again, I hate iTunes.
If I still had a PC, I would only use MediaMonkey. It's fucking awesome, and it supports ipods / iphones / ipads / iballs / etc.
mp3tag is my favourite. (Not just for mp3 files, though that's how it started.)
It includes the options to convert file name to tag and vice versa (with patterns), setting the same tag value for a group of files, and dragging an image from a web browser window straight into your cover picture.
Use a better music player. Like Poweramp or black player. They let you edit Music tags within the app and support a plethora of music file types. To edit the tags on your PC use this http://www.mp3tag.de/en/ or this https://www.aimp.ru/index.php?do=download.
I use Burn for audio, but I'm pretty sure it will easily copy DVDs. Great little program does all I need.
Edit:
"1 + 1 makes 2.
Allready have discs you like to reproduce. Don't worry, Burn can help you. Burn can copy discs or use disk images to recreate your discs. With one drive Burn still will be able to copy a disc, by temporary saving the disc."
There are 2 ways that a computer or CD player can get track names from a CD.
1) Computer software looks at the CDDB (Gracenote) or FreeDB or another online database. Usually this is done using track length information. Of course, you need to submit the initial information for your CD after burning it. This can be done by most CDDB-aware apps somewhere in their menus once you have entered the information manually. It can take time for the information you submit to be validated and appear in the database.
2) CD-TEXT: This is an extension of the redbook audio CD standard that allows for track metadata to be saved. Quite a few CD burners out there support CD-TEXT, however it never fully caught on everywhere so not all that many CD players or computer players out there supports it.
Neither one is going to cover all bases. The redbook spec just wasn't designed with metadata in mind.
Edit: i a word
I haven't used it (yet!), but Sayonara claims to have multiple libary support OOTB:
> With the multi library feature you can manage multiple directories as stand-alone libraries and copy and move tracks from one to another.
I read about this potential problem when I added a 250GB SSD to my iPod.
The issue is around the amount of memory the iPod has to manage the database of songs so I figured I'd try and minimise the amount of information about each track.
All my music files are mp3. I used TagScanner to tidy up the mp3 tags so I only have artist, track title, album title and track number. If part of a compilation that is also tagged and if multiple CDs then disk x of x.
I don't use iTune (I don't know whether that adds additional metadata to the database), preferring CopyTrans Manager.
So far, I haven't hit a limit. I don't have my iPod with me at the moment so can't give you any stats. I'll try and remember to update later.
Turns out there was a limit on the total number of characters for filenames. It appears that 63 character filenames (including the ".mp3") will work fine, but 64 character filenames can't be read. This character limit also appears to apply to folder names on the drive. I used Tag Scanner (http://www.xdlab.ru/en/index.htm) to tag and rename the 5000 some odd MP3 files in my library, then I used Rename Master (http://www.joejoesoft.com/vcms/108/) to rename the 500 some odd folders in that library. The process was fairly painless, but an inconvenience to say the least. I have around 10 other devices that play my files flawlessly without such petty limitations.
The only other problem I have come across is the sorting of the files in each folder. They appear to be in numerical order most of the time but in some folders the order they play in is not correct. I have tried inserting .m3u playlists, but they don't fix the sorting problem.
I'M NOT GIVING UP ON YOU DAMNIT.
There must be an app that rips the metadata from the aiff files. Alternatively, http://www.xdlab.ru/en/ or http://www.mp3tag.de/en/, not sure if they work with aiff. But they should be able to automatically gather metadata based on file names.
I would say having bad hardware is always going to be the main factor, you can mess around with equalizers and sound settings all you like, it just makes it sound better but not good.
The only work around I have ever found is getting the right pair of head phones. As for a direct answer to your question...
Musicolet - really lightweight but feature full. Also ad free. Definitely the best player I have used in recent months.
Blackplayer - Possibly plays the most sound file types on the market. If you have this and VLC I doubt there is a file type you couldn't play tbh. Its also light weight and (the version I used) ad free.
MediaMonkey - not just a music player, but extremely useful functions for music and movies. Its got a couple of in app purchases that you might want, but straight out of the box its really good.
Poweramp - If you have a day free give this a whirl and mess around with the biggest library of sound tweak tools you are likely to find. I think you can also create and save you own templates to apply to music lists and individual sound files. Its heavy on the phones specs, but a really good android sound tool and decent player.
You probably won't find anything that satisfies 2. If you look at how mediamonkey saves ratings in flac files you find they save them in a non-standard way. Those ratings are mediaMonkey only. If it were mp3 files you probably had more luck. So best you can hope for is finding the metadata that saves the ratings with metaflac --list and then writing a convert script yourself.
Yeah, it's pretty easy but It's been a while since I've used it so there now be better options. There are a few ways to auto-tag files and it can pull meta data from file names, folders, or amazon.
http://www.mediamonkey.com/sw/webhelp/frame/index.html?gettingtrackinformationfromtheinternet.htm
This kind of sucks compared to some free Visualization Plug-Ins that exist for music players like Whitecap and Milkdrop
Also, the video game Audiosurf has a built in visualizer mode that's very in tune with every beat in whatever track you choose.
I'd say try MediaMonkey based on those issues. It's been a while (and not a setting I utilised), but I'm fairly sure it gave you the option of either moving or duplicating music files when organising the library, instead of MusicBee's move-only option.
I think MM can also do the playlist update as well, but after deleting songs, I think you have to run a scan for missing tracks, and it would presumably find them. I've never really used playlists, so I'm kinda guessing/googling it myself at this point.
And with the easy backup, I know there's a wiki page for backing up the music database, but beyond that, I think you'll have to manually reset settings; I know everytime I formatted I would have to turn off the desktop popup and a couple of other qwerks I didn't like in the UI.
So yeah, I'd give MM a whirl and see if it works for you, if not, best of luck searching man (or lady).
That's why I use Media Monkey for my music player on my computer. It has a party mode you can turn on and it then prevents modifyng the playlist, changing to any song that is not not on the playlist, and alt-tabbing so you dont get youtube hijacked.
Sounds like your best option would be to get a 3rd HDD that is big enough for ALL your songs (They sell 3TB ones nowadays), copy all of your music to there and re-index it with iTunes. That way you'll have your music library accessible AND backed up which with 100,000 songs is pretty much a necessity.
You could also use a program like MediaMonkey to sort through and delete any duplicates per this article.
I don't know why most everyone is ignoring your +70gb requirement... I found the Archos 5 via PontifexPrimus' link, but it is a bit of overkill for an mp3 player. The Cowon X7 from Zaccus link liiks like the best bet when my 5th Gen ipod dies.
You can use Media Monkey to manage a music library that size and to synch your music from your computer to your mp3 player.
I second this, its auto-organizing feature is great. Select all the tracks you want to organize, right-click auto-organize, then specify how you want the folder hierarchy to be. Get it here Since I download most of my music and don't rip CDs, I don't really have any need to use the gold version, though if you want to rip CDs you might want to consider it, since it's one of the few features in the free version that expires after a while. (I actually buy CDs, but then just torrent the album :p)
MediaMonkey is not only a better all around music player, but also has a script that will literally check all cases of any tracks you select. Are they wrong? Like one click to fix an entire CD. Bam.
I swear by MediaMonkey for music organization because I haven't found anything that comes close in terms of tagging/renaming and (more importantly) moving files to directories based on album/artist.
I'm still searching for the ultimate movie/TV organization tool and I wish MM handled those types of media as well...
- Learn to MediaMonkey
- Don't steal random music. Only buy or steal that which you will actually listen to.
- Take the time to properly tag when you import.
Then you will end up with a nice, beautifully organized library like this.
Couple of plugins/scripts to look into:
Tagging Inconsistencies - Automatically lists tracks with similar but inconsistent naming
- Artist names (e.g. "Miles Davis" & "Davis, Miles"
- Albums with multiple years/genres/artists/etc.
- Many more types of inconsistencies
Advanced Duplicate Find & Fix
- Much better than the default duplicate finder
- Finds duplicate tracks/albums/etc.
MediaMonkey is my go-to for this. It will both:
a) Organize your songs based on id3 tag in whatever hierarchy you choose
and b) Tag your songs based on the folder hierarchy. Can also tag and get album artwork from Amazon.
You can also have it find/delete duplicates, badly-tagged content, etc. As a player, MM is average at best but definitely has the best organization/management I've ever used.
MediaMonkey is the best there is on PC's i think right now. Tons of features. You can rename files based on tags, retag based on filenames, search for albums with missing tracks, check the case and leading zeros of all tags, go to party mode when you don't want people changing tags on your music, run a library of 20,000 songs with minimal resource use, not to mention the hundreds of plugins that exist for MediaMonkey, and the thousands that exist for WinAmp, which work with MediaMonkey. But if you use Linux or Mac i would try Clementine. It's pretty new(only version 0.7) but it looks promising and it's what i use on my linux and mac machine.
Do you mean >120GB? I have a 160GB ipod classic. I'm not really an Apple fan but I can't fault my ipod. I looked around when I was getting it and couldn't find anything that matched it. Also you don't have to use itunes with it. Haven't tried it but I hear http://www.mediamonkey.com/ is good.
If you want to keep using plexamp try out https://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html I use this to convert the id3 tags into the folder names and filename in the structure required by Plex. This application is super useful and does most of the hard work for you.
I use a combination of MusicBrainz Picard http://picard.musicbrainz.org and Album Art Downloader for anything rare. Works well. The latter can search and scrape over 100 sources, so it generally comes up with the goods.
> Plus the tagging issue for classical music is horrendous.
http://picard.musicbrainz.org/ + https://quodlibet.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ has worked very well for me with regard to classical music.
If you have Adobe Creative Suite you can use Encore.
Edit: Also, if it's a realy simple DVD that doesn't need chapters or anything then the app Burn might be for you. It's fast and very basic, but it works.
I have been using this for years with no issues;
BURN for burner DVD http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html
VidConvert for converting/authoring for DVD http://www.reggieashworth.com/vidconvert
1.) Everyone here is gonna say buy it, but I personally couldn't remember the last time I paid for Windows. www.thepiratebay.mn then use the Program Burn to burn it to a 4.7gb DVD R
2.) I'd stick with Windows 7 64Bit, depending on how old the Mac is, you might even have to go 32 bit.
3.) If you open the app Boot Camp on the Mac, all it does is add a partition to the Mac. So all your school stuff will still be there, it'll just be in a small amount of available space.
4.) Yes, you can. All you would do is go back to the Boot Camp app, and remove the partition, and it'll go back to your regular size hard drive.
As for risks, I personally never found any when I was running Boot Camp on my Mac. Feel free to PM me if you need further help.
Try using the open source program 'Burn' instead of Apple's Disk Utility.
http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html
I wouldn't be surprised if Disk Utility was just putting that iso file onto the DVD, rather than burning it as that ISO.
You're welcome!
I'm still waiting for my white Saturn (jap) to arrive along with the modchip I've ordered so I honestly don't know what to use to burn bin/cue or MP3/iso/cue images on Mac.
I think Burn will do the job: http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html
Give it a try and let us know if it works!
iDVD was discontinued over 2 years ago. I recommend looking for a new app to fill this niche. Toast Titanium is a good full featured alternative but costs $80. I use Burn which is a very simple open source alternative. It doesn't have the option to create menus but otherwise does the trick.
That said, give some thought to if you really need to burn DVDs at all. I've found that unless I am giving a copy to a grandparent or something like that, solutions like YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, or the new (and really cool) iMovie Theater feature built right into iMovie do what I need, and aren't limited to standard definition.
You should be able to burn the mp4 file to the DVD.
All DVD video is transcoded to mpeg-2, and then authored in a Video OBject structure (VOB) of transport Streams (TS files.)
The three apple settings probably has more to do with whether or not analysis time is spent with the files (CBR or VBR) more than how compressed it is.
Do you have the necessary free space on your drive? I figure you have 4 gigs of ram on your system, double that, you need to keep at least 8-10 gigs free...and you'll need about 5 gigs for the DVD, so, do you have 15+ gigs free on your system?
Last: you could also try Burn an open source DVD authoring program. It's free.
The link is to a general page about ID3 metadata for MP3s:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150708034508/http://www.gracenote.com:80/id3/taginfo1.html
I believe these (and stuff like engiTunes_CDDB_IDs) are added by iTunes.
The longer string should map to a CDDB ID (the ID for the CD this was ripped from). Unfortunately, Gracenote bought that database and it isn't available anymore.
It does hint that this was commercially released on CD, however.
1/ The data you create in iTunes is not the same as CD metadata and will not copy over to your CD. In order to copy Metadata over to your CD you need to use mastering software (we covered this twice yesterday so search the sub please). 2/The way iTunes gathers song names etc. is actually from an online database (this feature does not work if you are not online). In order to register your music in their database visit http://www.gracenote.com/company/faq/owner/
Some of the metadata you're referring to is generally encoded to CD in addition to the wav files rather than in the files themselves. Album art and song titles that pop up when you rip a cd to iTunes is retrieved from a database called gracenote.
To provide a downloadable wav file with album art I'd imagine you'll have to bundle the art as an image file separately. The user can then link the files in iTunes, and the association is stored in the iTunes library database. MP3 can include all of this stuff using ID3 tags, but as far as I know there is no comparable method for WAV files. BWF contains a timecode stamp meta tag but that's about it!
FLAC offers embedded metadata and is the same quality as wav, why not give that a look?
This is asked frequently and usually caused by your tracks' filenames not including their numbers before their titles. Renaming to something like "01 - My First Track.mp3" is usually the best solution. mp3tag or Tag&Rename are good tools for the job.
I use Tag & Rename for this. My file structure is:
\%artist%\%year% %album%\%track% %title%.flac
if it's a compilation, the artist names are 'Various Artists' and the title is:
\Various Artists\%album%\%track% %title% (%album artist%).flac
I use Tag & Rename along with TotalCommander to organise all the music on my pc before I put it on my phone, so my tags are nice & organised. But I don't add compilation albums because I hate the mess it makes of my library. I've actually implemented a half working database to sort it out, but all the queries take too long, and it's not pleasant waiting for the lists to load forever, so it's nowhere near production-ready.
you can use something like Foobar's File Operations to rename the files based on ID3 tag data. I'm sure there are other programs that can do this as well. think this one would work http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm
don't give up or delete you music, you absolutely can rename the files with metadata information.
and i agree, fuck apple and that ridiculous ZGASTX.MP3 nonsense.
TagScanner... This is a PC based program that allows full edit of the ID3 tag. You can also embed the album art directly into the MP3, so there are no "extra" album art files and folders.
Personally, iTunes to listen/organize. TagScanner to edit metadata on the files (http://www.xdlab.ru/en/). FlacSquisher to conver FLAC to 320kpbs mp3 (I know, I know, but FLAC is so much space) and Trader's Little Helper to convert from SHN to mp3. I keep albums as the "year-month-date - venue, city" format and am very meticulous in this! It is very easy for me to go to my "Grateful Dead" playlist (JGB, Dead, Ratdog, Studio, etc.) and scroll down to the exact date I wanna hear!
Your isp doesn't care about what your downloading. They get notices from companys that monitor bittorrent swarms and are required by law to tell you to stop. As long as you use a vpn that is not an issue. It's easy to spot a fake music torrents, so you probably won't get any malware. As far as torrent clients go, I like qBittorrent and Tixati.
For editing id3 tags and renaming my music, I use Tagscanner. Its got a bit of a learning curve, but it makes bulk renaming easy.
As for music recommendations, I've been listening to Lord Huron, The New Pornographers, and Weird Al Yankovic lately.
I use two apps to keep things tidy (note: the second one doesn't really answer your question, but it is a tremendous help in maintaining your library):
1) TagScanner - (free) an automatic ID3 tagging utility that can grab album information (including album art) from multiple sources, as well as bulk-rename files to match the ID3 tag (it can also attempt to grab ID3 tag info from the file name). In all, this program is highly configurable.
2) iTunesFolderWatch - (trial is free...full version is something like $7.00) a library management utility that scans any specified directories, and keeps your iTunes library clean (i.e., no "missing files", and no more mp3s in your directories that you've somehow missed while importing). The free version's only real limitation is that it has to be manually executed, whereas the full version continuously monitors all selected directories. If you ask me, the full version is well worth it.
Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any programs that remove duplicates. I'm pretty sure iTunes has this functionality, as long as the ID3 tags match. So, get your tags in order with TagScanner, then use iTunes to remove the duplicates.
Try this Guide for some tips.
On tagging I would recommend Tagscanner. It has all your bases covered for looking up album info and tagging. It has a different workflow than some other programs but works where other programs fail, and it is free.
I've been using Tagscanner until now, the interface might have a learning curve but it's got everything where it counts. I'll check out Picard too tho, can never have enough..
Try TagScanner.
Its been a godsend for my tagging needs, but never used it for lists. Just checked it out and there seems to be a function that does exactly what you described.
EDIT: Just tried it. It's what you want.
None that'll you notice in the short term so you don't have any idea if what wattage to get for avr? Media monkey: http://www.mediamonkey.com/. Have you tried replacing the battery as soon as im home.
Mediamonkey has the ability to sync with Zunes, I believe. I know it has had it in the past, but it could be outdated.
If your only issue with the software is tagging, then I'll suggest MP3tag. This is probably the most simple, yet powerful tagging software I've used, and it's how I got my music fully organized when I hit about 3,500 songs.
Outside of that, I don't think there are any options. Though if you have any questions, I'll help.
I'm a big fan of MediaMonkey for library management. It lacks the synchronization of playlists with rekordbox/serato, but I love the UI and it runs super smooth on my Windows machine (even with a decently large library). Super easy to edit id3's, auto-folder import, etc - can't recommend it enough.
Mediamonkey - unter Linux dank Wine. Vorteile:
- Mengen von Tracks (Inhalte von Ordner mit Unterordnern, Suchergebnisse, Playlists, ...) lassen sich bequem sortieren (z.B. nach Ratings, dann nach "wie oft gehört", dann weiter verfeinert nach Genre, ...)
- Ratingsystem umfasst mehr als 5 Sterne (nämlich noch halbe Sterne -> doppelte Genauigkeit)
- bequemes Taggen
Synchronisation mit Schlaufon hab ich unter Linux noch nicht ausprobiert - ich befürchte, das könnte nicht so reibungslos klappen.
I use mediamonkey/foobar2000 for organisation. If your tracks are properly tagged you can use them to auto sort into folders.
Foobar2000
MediaMonkey
Media monkey? http://www.mediamonkey.com/ I seem to remember using that on my kids ipods because I didn't want iTunes, and it worked well. And would copy to my phone fine. Been a good few years though...
I never used music bee, but I have used simular programs. They tend to have a database that they store the tags in not updating the file. Probably because it doesn't have write access to the files, but could be because you don't set it to write to files in Music Bee's permissions, or its not built to do that at all. You should check your music file permissions and even reset them all. I have found issues with music file permissions in large collections with there Read Only on.
I would suggest going to WinAmp, but they need to upgrade. Most people are using http://www.mediamonkey.com/ or a free option that uses the import tag features of mediamonkey. I use another app for looking up meta tags as well called "MusicBrainz Picard", that I really like... Then I use WinAmp when I want to change a bunch of files to custom metadata that differs from those. Also I believe I tried MP3 Tagger and Foobar. Foobar is kinda nice, I just love winamp still. lol
http://www.online-tech-tips.com/free-software-downloads/mp3-metadata/
>How do I fix my files from having an unknown artist? For many songs of mine the artist is listed on the file and the display, and yet in the file it's listed as unknown artist.
MediaMonkey maintains both and artist and album artist. One of those fields is probably blank.
There are many ways to make updates so the best method depends on how many changes you need to make. If it's just a handful, I would suggest simply selecting the songs by groups of artists and selecting properties. Then you can just fill in the missing fields.
If you have a ton of changes to make, I would suggest looking into RegExp Find & Replace add-on. There's a slight learning curve to it but I think it's well worth the time if you have a bunch of changes to make.
Or you could just use a script that someone else has created.
The method you use depends on the amount of work and your comfort level with the different approaches.
>How do I reorder the track listings in an album? A few albums of mine are in the wrong order (despite me having the correct track numbers).
That seems odd. But I would try renumbering the using the auto-increment track #s under Tools - Scripts.
>How do I change the file path of a track without mediamonkey losing track of it? I moved the file path of an album from unknown artist to the proper artist, and subsequently mediamonkey has no idea where it is. Alternatively, is there a way to manually change the files and then re-import the entire folder in a way that will not result in duplicates?
You can manually move your files and then go rescan the library. That should find the track and prompt you to remove missing tracks from the library. Personally I find it easier to use the auto-organize files feature (CRTL-R) and let MediaMonkey control the whole process.
Dang, thats a lot. Mine is only ~6,000, you might need to ask someone else with a similar sized library. According to this thread MediaMonkey officially supports 50K songs in a library, but there are people in the thread reporting libraries over 250K without issue.
I personally use Mediamonkey for this, with a library of ~12k tracks.
Mediamonkey is actually an audio player and library management application in the vein of itunes, but I happen to like its leveling.
Download page (ignore the 'offer' to get Gold for free, the freeware version is fine)
I like MusicBee, but I think Mediamonkey is better overall. And that has wireless sync (although it's not a feature I've personally used yet).
That's cool. I really like iTunes, but I also totally get why some people don't. I sometimes use Music Monkey on my PC, and I found this page: http://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index.php/WebHelp:iPod_Synchronization/4.0
I definitely recommend Music Monkey (simple, lightweight, intuitive but powerful), though I haven't ever synced it with my iPhone, so I can't personally recommend that. But it's worth a shot! Good luck.
If you guys are doing a full blown large media collection, I've loved Mediamonkey for about a decade. Only catch is the MP3 conversion is only in the Gold.
There is also a downloader for Youtube site that downloads straight to MP3. Haven't tried it myself but I used to user Magic Video Converter in the old days.
EDIT 2. Table http://www.mediamonkey.com/download/
Pretty much the only reason I did was the mp3 conversion. My best friends Aunt was getting rid of all her CD's and wanted to rip them to digital format so I had to convert them all to mp3. Got paid with like $100, and a few goodies like a Shadows Fall hoodie that I still have.
Edit: to answer the other part of your question, it obviously is a bit limited but it's not "paywalled" from the reaction that I get out of the word. Since you downloaded from itunes and those are in mp3 anyway there isn't much of a reason for you to get gold other than to support development. I got it when it was on sale for the $25 lifetime license at some point (like a decade ago) ORIGINALLY found it because I had been trying to find something to replace itunes with and when my ext hdd failed I had to get my music off my Ipod classic somehow, the auto organize saved my life because I had A LOT of music. Fell in love and bought the gold just in time for that CD project.
Little late but here's the help page you were looking for: http://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index.php/WebHelp:Configuring_Directory_and_File_Formats/4.0.
And I'm really not sure what you're trying to get for names, but you would surround the part you are trying to shorten with $Left(string,n). So something like...
E:\Music\MediaMonkey\<Year>\<Album Artist>\<Album>\$Left(<Disc#> - <Track#> - <Title>, 30)
If you are using Windows, give MediaMonkey a try to check the ID3 tags of your files and mass-edit them properly: http://www.mediamonkey.com/
I am quite sure that for music libraries, Plex interprets ID3 tags before filenames.
Try MediaMonkey, it is a fully featured media player and media organizer and is a competitor to Windows Media Player, iTunes, etc.(http://www.mediamonkey.com/information/free/). It includes an organizer which is capable of renaming the MP3 files and re-organizing them into a folder hierarchy of album, artist, track etc.
I believe that this is also a default feature of iTunes, adding files to the iTunes application and then using the "Organize Library" feature will let you tell iTunes to make copies of all the music files into iTunes Library folder, renaming and organizing into a folders hierarchy based on album, artist, track etc.
vw195's method is great. If you want something similar to iTunes, but with more freedom and flexibility and far less bloat, try MediaMonkey. If you have an enormous library (mine is several thousand albums on my hard drive) an organizer like MM can be invaluable for quick access and file maintenance.