organize my music library

this is how i organized my music library (mp3 files):

1. i deleted thousands of tracks and albums that don’t inspire me/are not to my taste/make me feel bad/...

2. i renamed all files to the following format: “%artist – %title.mp3”

3. i moved all files to single folder named “music”

4. i used utils like mp3renamer, musicbrainz tagger, etc to fetch tags from the internet and tag all the files

5. now whenever i listen to music in amarok, i add tags to tracks i listen to. i use the comment tag to store my own tags (e.g. “meditative, relaxing, flute, dreamy, ambient”)

I really love the way my music is organized now.
I can’t wait for filesystem which will native tagging support (maybe future version of ubuntu?)

Has anyone found a program that helps with this? I’ve got about 200 gigs to go through…I need something that organizes into new folders, and renames files, fixes tags, album art. So far this has been neverending. Also – I’m just using Windows Media right now because the last time I used Itunes it renamed and refoldered everything. Any suggestions appreciated!!!

Finally completed this task. Ripped all of my music to MP3. Sorted our cds and weeded out all the ones we want to get rid of, moved the cds from jewel cases to a portfolio.

All goodness. Now to get recycle the old cases and sell/recycle the remaining cds.

So many songs… So completely random… There has gotta be a way to organize this so I can stop messing around and start my papers…

I haven’t slept in 48 hours, ‘cause I have to turn in this English final in order to graduate from high school.

Here I am, though, messin’ with foobar2000 and MusicBrainz; trying to get my music in order. I’m making my own foobar config with PanelsUI from scratch, and it feels very satisfying.

Using iEatBrainz to try and clean up my iTunes list was fairly effective. It helped me properly tag a ton of music. I also managed to clear out around 500 dupes and truncated songs. Still have a good bit of work to do, but I feel I’ve made major strides!

I just filled my 30g ipod…i’m miserable now…i dont know where to start with the organizing..

All I have to say, is that between Media Player (I used 10, do not like 11 for this!!!) and the free Media Monkey, I would have probably never finished with ~8000. MP was for downloading album art and tag editing. Media monkey was for updating and stream lining tags as well as making all the songs the same bit rate and re-encoding the ones that changed rates while playing. Saved me a couple hundred MB of space…

I have mine by Artist->Album->Filename (Filename = Artist->Songname.mp3) I am thing of changing the Filename to be more like iTunes (Track # – Song name.mp3).

Looking to organize my music. This means weeding through a few thousand MP3 files and make sure I have no dupes and the correct id tags. I also want to finish ripping my CD collection for use with my MP3 Player. I figure this will take me a good part of the year, but worth doing overall. I got a new book for xmas on becoming a dj with a few playlists that sound really cool. Alot of music mentioned that I haven’t even heard of, so I’m looking forward to building it with my collection.

I am getting an iPod from my birthday this year and there was no way I was going to clutter it all up my uploading all my music into it the way it currently was. So, I took an evening and renamed everything, downloaded all the album art, found the correct album the songs were on, and created playlists. It took most of the night, but it was fun to go through 5 years of music and hear songs that I have not heard in a long time.