Hudson_Hawk04 Wrote:what are you using to get your music in order...thats the task that i dread the most, I end up mucking things up so it ends up worse than before.
It's an awful process. I've been dreading it too.
I'm using the following:
MP3Tag v 2.48
The newest MediaMonkey
and MusicBrainz Picard.
I'm using MusicBrainz to help me properly identify some tracks. It gets a bit irritating having last.fm give me that condescending message that I'm tagged wrong
MusicBrainz is fairly good, but it's involved. I wouldn't trust the automated bit - at least not with my collection.
MP3Tag is great for mass edits. You can pretty much, and nicely too, do whatever you want. I am using that to "touch up" the collection, as necessary. I was using this a lot before MediaMonkey.
With MediaMonkey I can do this "auto tagging" from the web, which touches the amazons etc. I use the US and UK one mostly, they yield different results. You can set it up the way you like.
The thing I absolutely like the best, however, is that I can have it auto-organise the filename based off the new tags. So everything can be renamed and put in a nice and easy to follow path.
Basically I moved all my music and it's awful itunes structure to a separate "tosort" directory. Then I set mediamonkey to, when I'm done tagging and getting album covers, etc, to rename/move to C:\Music\<artist>\<album\<track#>-<title>
But you can have it auto do whatever path you like.
Also, it's clever enough that if you have .jpg or clearart files, it knows to move those with the album.
The biggest problem I've had with XBMC music bit is how it handles compilations. Even if my compilations are "claimed" to be tagged properly for being a compilation, I'd still get like 25 "album" entries, each with a different artist. When you have albums like 50 Songs from the Royal County, etc...it's a bit annoying. So I'm basically finding which album the song would of been "compiled" from - and cheating that way. It works for me.
I've been deleting a lot of music too. Why am I keeping 1 star stuff around, when I just skip it if it comes up on the playlist anyway?