Posted by Troy Piggins on 10/20/05 23:29

* seani wrote:
> 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.

Thanks mate. I'll look into it. However, I am sure the tags are as
crap as the surrounding filenames and directories...

I think I'll end up having to write my own script to do it on a
per-album basis.

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