I have found the managing your songs in a program is just too complicated and frankly I don’t trust the programs. Instead I am now going through and putting all my songs in folders and categories. I have also started adding metadata to filenames to help with searching for files and creating “views” based on my current listening mood. If you want to learn more about adding metadata to filenames then I would recommend the following primer: WWW Link

I have well over a hundred gigs of music and have hand sorted most of it over the last 2 years believe me its a project... but I don't trust anything else

I agree with Cerebro & 511b. Once you've got it initially sorted it really doesn't take much to keep it organized. I use WMP to get all the info and then just move each folder into a master folder for that particular artist.

I used I-Tunes to put all the songs in the right folders then uninstalled it. I use MediaMonkey to keep up tags and sort my collection. I have the paid version and like it a lot. Only problem is, like so many other programs is the memory leak that happens when you use it for five or six hours. Sometime as much as 50 to 75k. So I use foobar 2000 to play songs. Around 7 to 10k without any plugins. You know, whatever works.
Still looking for that perfect player/Organizer.

Since I posted 2 years ago I've come to rely on a couple programs.

Still use Winamp Pro. I tried Xion but couldn't tell any difference (audible) and I've got a lot of customization in Winamp.

I like the Godfather a lot better than MediaMonkey for file organization/management, although mainly I use it to rename files based on ID's also do some batch tag editing with it.

dBpower Amp for tags and converting. It hooks into Windows Explorer and gives you the entire ID tag info on mouseover/right-click. You can edit tags right in Explorer and convert damn near any format to any format. Well worth the cost.

Don't you just love bringing back the dead. Wow 2 years. Someone was digging deep.

2 years... and I still haven't gotten my collection sorted. it's only grown bigger...

I use Tag&Rename ( WWW Link ) in conjunction with WMP11 and find it to be an excellent solution for music organization.  

That looks very interesting. Thanks for the link!
Only problem is that I've for the last week had WMP crashing on me. Claiming that DivX has caused an error. It does that even when I've replaced any trace of DivX. ...

Try nerxy file organizer at http://www.nerxy.com it enables you to organizer your music and photos by content like song artist or album and your photos by data picture taken and camera type or model  . It can also remove any duplicates items while scanning and you can set an automatic organizing rules  .

No, I don't think he wanted to wait a year and a half for your recommendation

 

Look at the last post date, dude.

Wow, thread from the past. This Narxy app looks interesting.

necrothread alert!

Wow, old thread! Almost another year has gone by, and I just wanted to contribute to this conversation.

I found this program called FixTunes that not only organized the files, but also automatically changes the ip3 tags searching the internet and renames your files to friendly format. Check it out in this link.

I wonder if he's still around?