Posted by Troy Piggins on 10/20/05 21:16

* Sla#s wrote:
>
> "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?

Coz I'm anal...

> 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.)

I know it's more trouble than it's worth - that's why I asked if there's
a program to do it for me ;-)

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Troy Piggins
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