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Hey Everyone,

I just started using Ember for my movie info for XBMC and love it, but was wondering if there is a similar type of program that I can use to organize all my XBMC music too? If you know of a program any help would be great. I have a ATV2 and rather store all the metadata, fanart, cd covers and etc on the computer which feeds my ATV 2 since it has limited storage space. Any program you know that can handle the fan art, cd covers and cd info would be great

Thanks

Josh

I have been using mediamonkey to get all my metadata right within the files and then using cdart manager (http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=77031) to download fanart, cdart and coverart.

I would also love an all in one solution, but i haven't seen 1 yet..

I use MP3TAG http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

This will put folder JPG in the directories, correct tags, and allow you to insert album art into the MP3. Best tool I've found for this - Windows based. Won't modify the database that XBMC uses but then I've yet to find something to do that for movies either

Foobar handles all my tagging needs with the discogs tagging plugin.

Have you looked at MusicBrainz's Picard?

http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Picard

I've used it for a long time now and found it to be much better than anything else.

For music tagging I use mp3tag found here: http://www.mp3tag.de/en/, to get album art I use http://sourceforge.net/projects/album-art/ and to organize my music I use J.River media jukebox found here : http://www.jriver.com/mj/, by the way all three related music softwares are free.

TC

I use Tag & Rename.
http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm

Not free but it works great for managing tags and sorting things.

I also use mp3tag but only to bulk remove tags I don't need from my files once they've been organized with T&R.

You could also check out Headphones https://github.com/rembo10/headphones
It's based on Sickbeard. I had problems getting to work well with my music collection but others seem to have better luck.

dashford Wrote:Have you looked at MusicBrainz's Picard?

http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Picard

I've used it for a long time now and found it to be much better than anything else.

I used this to sort out my very very poorly tagged music collection. It works ok, but it has a tendency to decide tracks from within the same folder are from different album versions, making it quite a lot of work to manually alter everything.

I use Jaikoz.
Its fantastic for music. Downloads all album art and met data and it can even scan songs without any names using their music id. So if you were to have a hd crash and all your music end up renamed to 1-1, 2-2, it would scan the song signature and name it accordingly. (kind of what shazaam does but on a massive scale)

Ahem, Jaikoz uses the exact same methods Picard does. Just saying...

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Also Jaikoz is non-free. Picard is free.

exiledone1 Wrote:Hey Everyone,

I just started using Ember for my movie info for XBMC and love it, but was wondering if there is a similar type of program that I can use to organize all my XBMC music too? If you know of a program any help would be great. I have a ATV2 and rather store all the metadata, fanart, cd covers and etc on the computer which feeds my ATV 2 since it has limited storage space. Any program you know that can handle the fan art, cd covers and cd info would be great

Thanks

Josh

Well at some stage I'm hoping to integrate the functionality into Ember to manage music, not sure what timeframe since I've just picked up Ember and there is plenty to do already on the Movie/TV side of things.

I'll give a third recommendation to MusicBrainz Picard. I had around 20,000 completely, utterly disorganized mp3's and after a couple of hours everything is just so neat now. There is virtually no learning curve, it's really powerful and it takes almost no effort to get everything working correctly.