Organising a Music Library - Page 3

Mark · 18-09-2007, 17:00

May well go through and re-tag my 'Various' collection then. I changed audio formats and started again a while back so though time consuming it won't be too bad.

Davey_Pitch · 18-09-2007, 17:05

Part of me hates having all my Now type albums in their own folder as I do like to organise my collection by artist so I can just play everything by a particular artist if I feel like it. I may re-structure it all so it's "Artist Name - Album Name" with an additional folder for "Singles" or something for the songs that don't fit into an album folder.

LeperousDust · 18-09-2007, 18:44

Guys use PicardQT with album art and disc plugins, much better than the classic and standard picard tagger by far

I've just done the same

Daz · 19-09-2007, 12:55

How did it work Alex? Did you point it at the root of your music and let it go do it's thing or is it only useful album by album?

SidewinderINC · 19-09-2007, 13:07

I let iTunes do all of mine but I find when I use "add folder to library" it adds it twice and duplicates all of the files.

Does anyone know anything about this?

Joe 90 · 19-09-2007, 13:46

Feek if you still havent got anything to tag files then i used to have ripping and tagging software from back in my irc days that i got from one of them big ripping groups

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keep it on the hush)

if i still got it then i could pass it on

LeperousDust · 19-09-2007, 14:40

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Originally Posted by Daz

How did it work Alex? Did you point it at the root of your music and let it go do it's thing or is it only useful album by album?

It's better if you do it yourself in chunks of albums you know well, because with a few thousand songs you start to confuse yourself. But technically its pretty good, and is scalable to thousands of songs at a time, apart from the QT beta (only thin available) is a little tempramentle after 1000 or so songs without closing the app and restarting i found...

Point go, make sure the output folder is different so you keep what youve sorted and not separate. Make sure the album plugin and disc plugin work before unleashing it on everything too. Give it a test run basically.

Joe 90 · 19-09-2007, 19:47

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Originally Posted by LeperousDust

Guys use PicardQT with album art and disc plugins, much better than the classic and standard picard tagger by far

hows this album art thing work...launches an amazon window and looks to enable javascript on the album cover, but i can't drag that cover anywhere - just always 'no chance' kinda icon.

LeperousDust · 19-09-2007, 20:12

With PicardQT if you can see the art in the little window when you save it'll embed the art automatically, job done

Only bad thing is you don't have any choice over what image it uses, but its not actually chose any bad examples for me yet after about 400 albums...

Feek · 19-09-2007, 20:15

Have you got a link to the plugins? I'll give it a shufti, ta. Still loads to do so it may well speed things up for me.

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18-09-2007, 17:00	#21
Mark Screaming Orgasm Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newbury Posts: 15,194	May well go through and re-tag my 'Various' collection then. I changed audio formats and started again a while back so though time consuming it won't be too bad.

19-09-2007, 20:12	#29
LeperousDust Bananaman Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Liverpool/Edinburgh Posts: 4,817	With PicardQT if you can see the art in the little window when you save it'll embed the art automatically, job done Only bad thing is you don't have any choice over what image it uses, but its not actually chose any bad examples for me yet after about 400 albums... __________________

19-09-2007, 20:15	#30
Feek ex SAS Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: JO01ou Posts: 10,062	Have you got a link to the plugins? I'll give it a shufti, ta. Still loads to do so it may well speed things up for me. __________________