Need a utility to organize my music files

Published on November 17, 2005 By Thomas Thomassen In iTunes

Does anyone know of a utility that can organize my music collection into a structured system? Windows Media Player orgianize my music well within the player it self. And it does partly what I want. Which is I want my music orginized into folders named after the artist, then then each artist folder would have the subfolders containing the albums. But as I said, it only does this partly.

Is there a utility out there that can extract the info from mp3 and wma files and move them into desired folders?

Comments (Page 1)

Island Dog

on Nov 17, 2005

Here is a bunch to check out. http://fileforum.betanews.com/browse/Audio/Management

liquidguru

on Nov 17, 2005

i have used musicmatch to do this ..you can set it to create exactly what you want folders by artist, then a seperate folder for each album, but it does this when ripping from my CDs, so it may not work if you have already ripped the music

thomassen

on Nov 17, 2005

Yea, that's what Windows Media Player does as well. Need something to go through my existing files. Going to have a look at that link Island Dog gave me.

CerebroJD

on Nov 17, 2005

Well thomas, depending on how much music you have, you could do it by hand. Just sort by artist, move into folders, then sort by album withing the folders, move into more folders. Just an option.

Lantec

on Nov 17, 2005

Winamp's got a pretty good library function as well. I'm like CJD though, I've "explorer" sorted all mine into My Music/"Artist"/"Album" or misc.mp3

By the way, saw your pick on the frappr. Nice hat, but you need a shave.

CerebroJD

on Nov 17, 2005

Me?

Lantec

on Nov 17, 2005

Me?

No, Thommasen

CerebroJD

on Nov 17, 2005

Ah.

thomassen

on Nov 18, 2005

Well thomas, depending on how much music you have, you could do it by hand. Just sort by artist, move into folders, then sort by album withing the folders, move into more folders.

Manually sort my 9GB of music... *blink* ... *blink* *blink* ... bahahahaha! ... aah... *phew* ... you really are a loone JD, and I love you for it.

I did that once upon a time. When the collection was small and humble. That was before the Great Idea of stuffing all my music onto my computer, but not really ensuring that it was copied in a nice structured way. Hey,... WMP seemed to find the files allright. Then, when desided to go for an exploration trip in the nice little park named Music, I soon realised it was a jungle *scary fanfare here* ... and I found my self lost. *sneaking scary music*. So I desided to flatten the pesky vegetation with a highway! *muhahhahahhaha!* (*doing a Dr Evil gesture with the pinky finger*)

I'm glad you like my hat by the way, Lantec.

I'm very found of it my self. I perticulary like the greeness.
But why a shave? You dont like my rugged sexy beard?

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...right'o... Still got 15 minutes to kill.... now what... need to do something to fill my time. ...perhaps I should push a Switch... *nudge nudge, wink wink JD

* hihihi.... sorry couldn't resist...

Anyways, I'm pretty much done with this comment now. Adios Amigos!
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Tominated

on Nov 18, 2005

I would use media monkey, it'll search you hard drive for media files and categorize them, it even has a built in player

thomassen

on Nov 18, 2005

That's actaully what I ended up using. It worked very well.

gfcentral002

on Nov 18, 2005

i've used media monkey - it works really nicely

as does iTunes (i have over 20gb worth of music and those were the best for me to use! iTunes is really easy for organizing. media monkey only gave me troubles a few times were it wouldn't change a few files, but other than that it was great. good luck

thomassen

on Nov 18, 2005

I noticed Media Monkeys got a couple of quirks when editing tags. For instance when I edit the tag info directly in the media list it doesn't stick.

As for iTunes,.. I'm just a bit apprehensive to try it out. I've heard to automatically takes over the file associations without asking. I just don't like software doing that. I was actually looking for a while the other day trying to figure out how to install Quicktime 7 without getting iTunes bundeled. Didn't like that either.

Island Dog

on Nov 18, 2005

When you install iTunes it asks you if you want it to take over file associations.

PoSmedley

on Nov 18, 2005

Try this Link

It;s from sourceforge.net. They make Audacity and a lot of other free stuff that works well and is easy to use. This is their Mp3 organizer project.

Good Luck!

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