What do you use to manage your music collection? [Archive]

arkamw

10-17-2009, 10:23 PM

That's a difficult answer. I suppose it would depend on your definition of "manage."

Personally, I use WMP. I do all my tagging with MP3Tag. This setup does what I want with a minimum of fuss. Out of all the others that I've tried, Media Monkey comes the closest which is why I have it as a backup player on my machine.

phide

10-17-2009, 10:48 PM

Mp3tag. foobar2000 is in charge of ReplayGain scanning and the occasional tag fix, but Mp3tag's the main app.

Snowknight26

10-17-2009, 11:19 PM

foobar2000 with an occasional use of Mp3tag.

JonathanJ

10-18-2009, 03:18 AM

WMP12

Sickb0y

10-18-2009, 09:38 AM

foobar 2000 been using it for years.

Auzner

10-18-2009, 09:43 AM

This thread reminded me I have a pretty jumbled music collection. I'll try these apps out, thanks.

Somnambulator

10-18-2009, 09:44 AM

winamp windows explorer and tagscanner. tagscanner is the best renamer ive seen. import all my music to winamp library.

Auzner

10-20-2009, 01:18 PM

This is overwhelming, even with software. Leaving things to automatically checking internet databases and filling in data in my experience has been inaccurate unless you've just ripped the entire CD. Or you go through each file one by one with a database and tell it yes or no, then correct the spelling, casing, and symbols.

DeaconFrost

10-20-2009, 01:44 PM

MediaMonkey, because it's free, loaded with options, can handle the tagging and embedding of album art, and syncs with my devices.

kencheeto

10-20-2009, 02:46 PM

I use foobar's file operations tool to organize everything- I can customize exactly how folder and file names will be sorted and save the template. However, this is easy for me because I only have full albums and not scattered songs.

PrimeSLP

10-20-2009, 02:47 PM

iTunes

sometimes MediaMonkey

zeroARMY

10-20-2009, 02:48 PM

Tag&Rename

phide

10-20-2009, 02:49 PM

This is overwhelming, even with software.
Tackling an entire library in one shot is overwhelming -- no question. Once you get it cleaned up, though, additions to your library are quick and easy.

It's a process. Just take your time; find a workflow that suits you; work through it.

black0ut

10-20-2009, 03:46 PM

MediaMonkey with Mp3tag handles everything I can throw.

Though like phide said, the hardest part is starting off. Once you have a structure, adding music is cake.

xveganx

10-20-2009, 04:25 PM

songbird

Eragon Dragonslayer

10-20-2009, 04:44 PM

i use songbird, works really well :)

Kanaric

10-20-2009, 06:06 PM

A folder with subfolders by band and subfolder under that by album. Right click on band, or album, select play in VLC (or wmp).

No need to orgaize other than that if you like to listen to albums instead of random tracks on shuffle.

I personally do not enjoy the intro song to Electric Eye by Judas Priest (hellion) to go to Rush's Red Sector A or go from Disarmonia Mundi to Pink Floyd

Jon55

10-21-2009, 12:43 AM

iTunes, lol.

Same here, and have been since it was released. Never had any issues and love it.

illuminate

10-21-2009, 02:59 AM

Foobar2000

Mr. Pedantic

10-21-2009, 03:07 AM

Songbird, until about a week ago, when for some reason it spontaneously decided to stop playing the files I double-click on.

DeaconFrost

10-21-2009, 07:52 AM

Give MediaMonkey a try. Songbird worked great for a while, then gave me weird issues.

zero2dash

10-21-2009, 01:48 PM

Media Monkey, except using Zune (to sync with my Zune since MM can't).

Switched from iTunes a few months ago...very glad I did. Nothing beats Ctrl+L (album lookup) then Ctrl+R (to rename and put in directories as I like).

Scatman Zombie

11-06-2009, 08:07 PM

Same here, and have been since it was released. Never had any issues and love it.

yeah never really had a problem with itunes, although i started to use wmp, just to listen to music, because it gets along with my G15 better