Posted by seani on 10/20/05 22:47

heOn Thu, 20 Oct 2005 07:22:47 +0000, Troy Piggins wrote:

> 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?
>
> [1] By "mess" I mean the base directory may or may not have artist in
> it, may or may not be all caps, sometimes it has the album name,
> sometimes there are brackets around it, sometimes the actual mp3
> filename contains the artist and album name too. Really unsightly,
> though petty I know.

If your MP3 *tags* are in a decent state, the excellent free Godfather,

http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/

will rename your files and reorganise them in a suitable directory
structure for you.

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