Posted by Sla#s on 10/20/05 18:23

"Troy Piggins" <usenet-0510@piggo.com> wrote in message
news:20051020171351@usenet.piggo.com...
> I'm new to this, so please be gentle...
>
> I've just bought an mp3 player. Although the player is not an ipod, I
> have been using iTunes to rip my mp3s. Seems to do a pretty good job,
> organising the directory structure by
> "artist/album/trackno songtitle.mp3"
>
> Now, I have also got a lot of mp3s from other sources, and they are an
> absolute mess[1] in terms of their organisation. I'd like to organise
> them in the same way as iTunes does.
>
> Is there some really clever software to detect what the artist/album etc
> is on existing mp3s and convert them or rename the directories and
> filenames? Or am I stuck doing it manually?
>

Why bother?
I started organising all my music as you say by artist, etc but in the end
it is more trouble than it is worth.
Just put it all into one folder and if you need to find it use iTunes "find
file".
The only bit that needs to keep the same format is the tag. Far to much
music available is incorrectly tagged, or even incorrectly named. (For
example, it took
me weeks to find a correctly labelled file of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No
5. all the stuff on Lime wire is wrong.)

Slatts

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