restructuring mp3's

[Dilbert1234567]

I’m looking for a program to reorganize my MP3's, all the tags are correct, but they are only half sorted on my hard drive, does anyone know of a good program (preferably free) that will organize my collection based off of the tags?

Thanks.

[flstf]

I have been using "MP3 Tag Studio" for the last 4 years to handle my 30,000 file collection. It is shareware and it's uncrippled and non-time limited even if you choose not to register.
The items you are interested in may be in the partial feature list below:

The auto rename and organize mp3 tool:

Rename any mp3:s based on tag contents and encoding data, to ANY format you like.
Automatically detects mp3 files and renames them (no matter e.g. if their file extension differs from ".mp3" for the moment)
Organize and sort mp3:s into complex directory structures (created by the program) based on tag and encoding data.
Optional automatic character case fix with advanced settings (including generic string replacement). Default settings fully comply with english grammatical rules.
Easy save and restore of your created templates.

http://www.magnusbrading.com/mp3ts/

[mrklixx]

You might try "The Godfather"

http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/

Here's what it offers in its "organize" section:

* Easily create/merge play lists with preview support or simply find and listen to your favorite music.
* Encode/decode your files with LAME,Ogg Vorbis or mpcenc. (trans code with out losing tag information from one format to the other)
* Restructure the files on your hard disk ( copy,move or even create shortcuts ) in new user defined location based on Tag field information.
* Find duplicate files using smart and aggressive detection.
* Export files in delimited, fixed length format, Simple HTML or multiple pages using user defined templates.
* Import information from delimited files to rename and.or update your files, customized mapping to columns.

Plus it's free.

[MechCow]

Try MusicBrainz tagger http://musicbrainz.org/ . It uses accoustic fingerprints which means the file name and tag data can be completely wrong and it will still organise it for you.

It is completely free. I've used it on huge collections of recovered files and found it fairly effective, finds perhaps 80% of the songs.

[meanSpleen]

I have always been a fan of ID3-TagIT. It does require .NET 1.1 installed. Ignore the German to English translations on the website as there are just a few grammatical errors. The program itself is very clear.

http://www.id3-tagit.de/english/index.htm

It is extremely powerful and does a fantastic job of reorganization, renaming, and just overall usage.

[trickyy]

my favorite tagger is Mp3tag -- http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

* Write ID3v1.1-, ID3v2-, APEv2-Tags and Vorbis Comments to multiple files at once
* Full Unicode support
* Support for embedded cover art
* Automatically create playlists
* Recursive subfolders support
* Remove parts or the entire tag of multiple files
* Rename files based on the tag information
* Import tags from filenames
* Format tags and filenames
* Replace characters or words from tags and filenames
* Regular Expressions
* Export tag information to user-defined formats (like html, rtf, csv, xml)
* Import tag information from online databases like freedb or Amazon (also by text-search)
* Import tag information from local freedb databases
* and much more ...

the program does quite a bit. i get a lot of music from various sources and i end up fixing hundreds of tags at a time. sometimes all i have is a list of the tracks. luckily this program can import tag info from a .txt file.

it can also do a lot of mass tag/filename editing.
if you have files named:

01 - britney spears - toxic - omgwtfbbq
02 - clipse - grindin' - omgqtfbbq
03 - li'l scrappy pants and the strategic partnerships - hickory justice - omgwtfbbq
etc.

you can extract the artist and song title tags from the filename, capitalize words, and change the filename format to %track% - %title% for numerous files at once.

[KnifeMissile]

Originally Posted by Dilbert1234567

I’m looking for a program to reorganize my MP3's, all the tags are correct, but they are only half sorted on my hard drive, does anyone know of a good program (preferably free) that will organize my collection based off of the tags?

I don't quite understand your question. Everyone has assumed that you want an ID3 tag manipulation program but, when you say things like "all the tags are correct" and "only half sorted," I'm left wondering what you mean. So, what do you mean?

To everyone else in this thread, can anyone suggest a command line ID3 tag manipulator? Something that can both extract and modify the ID3 tag info?
Thank you...

[Dilbert1234567]

Originally Posted by KnifeMissile

I don't quite understand your question. Everyone has assumed that you want an ID3 tag manipulation program but, when you say things like "all the tags are correct" and "only half sorted," I'm left wondering what you mean. So, what do you mean?

basicly what i mean, is half of the mp3's are just in one big folder, i want software to move it into folders based off of the id3 tag. godfather is working great, thanks, everyone, and mrklixx.

[Psycho Dad]

I use Media monkey but I'm going to give a look to some of the programs listed here.

BTW, Media Monkey does a good job for me. In fact my teenage and 21 year old sons can't believe I have a better organized mp3 collection than them.

[Daniel_]

Originally Posted by Dilbert1234567

basicly what i mean, is half of the mp3's are just in one big folder, i want software to move it into folders based off of the id3 tag. godfather is working great, thanks, everyone, and mrklixx.

I know people might well shout me down for this, but Window Media Player has had this feature since version 9 (it's on 11 now).

You might not want to rip of play MP3s using it (although version 11 seems pretty good if you have the system resources to handle it), bt it will take all of your music and put it in folders that match the criteria you set (i have mone as C:\music\[artist]\[album title]\[song title])

[Redlemon]

Originally Posted by Daniel_

I know people might well shout me down for this, but Window Media Player has had this feature since version 9 (it's on 11 now).

I'll be shouted down even harder... iTunes will re-sort into artist and album subfolders as well.

[MontanaXVI]

I'm with Redlemon, iTunes will do exactly what you are asking, and chances are you might even already have it installed.

For all the knocking people might do I find iTunes to be a very thorough offering at what it does, granted it might be a bit bloated, but it does exactly as advertised and it does it well from what I have seen.

[Daniel_]

Never used iTunes, but your reasns for recomending it (you have it already and it does the job) apply to WMP too.



Funny, isn't it that people don't want to use a free tool that they already have simply because of where it came from.