Posted by Sla#s on 10/21/05 10:41

"Troy Piggins" <usenet-0510@piggo.com> wrote in message
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>* 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...

Was getting a bit that way - why's I stopped :-)


<SNIP>
>
> 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 ;-)

Know what you mean.
The best way would be to take it from the tags - they are easier to edit.
I've got all my tags sorted now.
I didn't know The Godfather could rename/sort - I'll give that a try.

Ta
Slatts

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