Need help finding some MP3 tools..

[emanon]

Hello...
I have almost 2,000 MP3s all just tossed into My Music folder and need help Sorting them out.
I am searching for 2 tools.. Hopefully an all in one tool..

1) I need a good MP3 tag editor, That will be able to get MP3 tag data and Album covers from the internet.

2) All my MP3's are named liked this.. Aerosmith - Walk This Way.mp3
I would like a tool that could create sub folders of the artists name and move files into those directories.. OR.. If I get them all tagged right, Create the sub-folder of the artist and album, Then move the files..

Any suggestions?
Thanks

[hellnoire]

I don't know about part two but for an MP3 tagger... MP3tag is perfect I find.

[emanon]

Thanks.. Worked real well with all my albums... Not so well tho with single MP3s.

[hellnoire]

That's the issue, I guess.

As for moving and whatnot, you'll have to make the folders, but Belvedere might be able to help you.

[ha14]

Hi

ejay virtual music manager
http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-VMM/ejay-virtual-music-manager-mp3

POWERFUL DATABASE BACKEND
Whether you have a regular size music collection or even thousands of records, you will be able to operate at full speed.

SUPPORTING THE STANDARDS
Keep up-to-date with the latest standards when it comes to storing information about your music.

PLAYING HISTORY
Automatically keeps track of the music you are playing. Go back to a specific date to see exactly what music you have played.

MUSIC STATISTICS
Music statistics of your entire music collection - in one place. Display interesting and informative information about your music collection as a whole.

AUTO ENQUEUE / AUTO DJ FEATURE
Instead of a playlist ending and the music being stopped, you can automatically enqueue tracks of your choice to your playlist.

Features

•Rip your CDs to MP3s, allowing you to keep digital copies of your music on your PC.
•Organise your entire music collection. Virtual Music Manager is optimized to sort and search even the largest MP3 collections.
•Download lyrics, album and artist information for the tracks in your collection.
•Includes Last.fm/Audioscrobbler support, letting you display your taste of music to thousands of other music fans.
•In addition let your friends on MSN see what you listen to while you play the song.
•Get instant suggestions on similar tracks when playing your music.
•The Suggested Tracks feature in Virtual Music Manager will make you discover new music as you are listening.
•Relations between artists is a new way of rediscovering your music collection.
•Virtual Music Manager has been continually developedand advanced since 1997 resulting in it becoming one of the best all-purpose music managers in the market.

good MP3 tag editor
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

Mp3tag is a powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of common audio formats where it supports ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, iTunes MP4, WMA, Vorbis Comments and APE Tags.

It can rename files based on the tag information, replace characters or words in tags and filenames, import/export tag information, create playlists and more.

Mp3tag supports online database lookups from, e.g., Amazon, discogs, or freedb, allowing you to automatically gather proper tags and cover art for your music library.


Tag&Rename - mp3 tag editor
http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm

Tag&Rename is a music files tag editor that easily handles all popular digital audio formats. No matter what music compressor you prefer, you can keep your music collection organized with Tag&Rename. It is the only tag editor and organizer which has full native support for: mp3 (ID3v1, ID3v2.2, ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tags), MusePack mpc/mp+ (APEv1, APEv2 and ID3v1 tags), Windows Media wma, asf and wmv files, Ogg Vorbis/Flac/Speex (vorbis comments), Apple iTunes and iPod aac (m4a) files including mp4, lossless m4a and protected m4p files, most popular lossless codecs including Monkey's Audio, Flac, Wav Pack, Optim Frog, True Audio, Apple, Windows Media lossless and Wav.

AudioGrail (Formerly K-MP3)
http://www.kcsoftwares.com/?kmp3

AudioGrail (Formerly K-MP3) is the swiss army knife for everthing that is related to audio files (MP3, MPC, OGG...). It can very easily rename and tag (tag: info such as artist name, album, track title) your files automatically. It can also analyse quality, organize files on your system, find duplicated files and improve your everydays audio experience !

Review

AudioGrail features ...

Supports : MP3, OGG, MPC, APE, AAC, FLAC and WavPack files.
Automatically Albums Ranaming & Tagging (ID3Tag V1 & V2 tags, Vorbis (Ogg) comments and APEv2 tags are supported) Powered by FreeDB.
One-by-one tag editor with queue (for multiple files edition).
Audio files To Audio CD burning capabilities.
Files Names Normalizer (Case Standardization...)
Tags Normalizer (Case Standardization...)
Mass Tags Remover
Files Organizer (Mass Tag To Name / Move To Folder)
Duplicate Files Finder
Playlist Creator & Analyser (Supported Formats : m3u, pls, xpl)
Files Lister (Supported Formats : Raw listing, Coma Separated Values, SQL, XML)
Incomplete Tags Finder.
Quality Analyser.
Internationalization support.
... And much more !

Tags 2 Folders
http://skwire.dcmembers.com/wb/pages/software/tags-2-folders.php

Tags 2 Folders is a small utility to sort audio files into folders based on their tags. The following audio file types are suppported:

AAC, APE, FLAC, MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, M4A, M4B, OGG, OFR, OFS, TTA, WMA, WV

Simply choose a source folder, a destination folder, set your options and click the "Go" button.

Options

1) Recurse source folder: Scan through the source folder's sub-directories.
2) Show destination folder after run: Launch an Explorer window of the destination folder when done.
3) Template: Use the tokens to come up with your own folder naming scheme.
4) Copy files to destination: Make copies of the original files in the destination folder.
5) Move files to destination: Move the original files into the destination folder.

Other notes

1) You can drag & drop folders onto the source and destination fields.
2) Filename collisions will be automatically renamed like this:

audio_file.mp3
audio_file[1].mp3
audio_file[2].mp3
audio_file[3].mp3

Multi ID3 Tag Editor description

http://stud.usv.ro/~alexbu/
Multi ID3 Tag Editor is an ID3 Tag editor, file renamer and mover for several files with just a simple mouse click.

Here are some key features of "Multi ID Tag Editor":


Manual ID3 Tag v1&v2 editor ("ID3 Tags" tab):
· load/save ID3 Tag v1 & v2
· rename/Move the file
· automatic completion for Artist and Title
· automatic completion for Artist and Title only is -they are missing
· remove ID3 Tag

Automatic editor for several files ("Multi Tagger" tab):
· remove ID3 Tag automatic: (only) v1, (only) v2 and v1&v2
· automatic completion for Title and Artist fields from ID3Tag, using the files names
· string format for ID3 Tag fields: lowercase, uppercase, first letter uppercase, first letter of each word uppercase
· 2 separators support
· ReadOnly attribute remover
· variables support

Automatic rename of files names using the ID3 Tag fields ("Multi Rename Tool" tab):
· ID3 Tag priority
· move the renamed files into a single folder
· protection for existing files

Automatic move of files into separate folders, created using the ID3 Tag fields ("Multi Move Tool" tab):
· create folders using the Artist, Genre, Artist-Album or Album and move the files
· create the folders only
· ID3 Tag priority

MP3 player ("Mp3 Player and MPEG Info" tab):
· a very friendly user interface and lovely buttons previous, pause, play, stop, next function
· song seeking bar
· volume bar
· shuffle and repeat
· track title and time display

Advanced information about the type and encoder of the files

Large playlist:
· add file(s)/folder
· remove all/selection
· select all/none/invert
· sort
· load/append/save list

Errors list ("Errors" tab)

· Mixer and volume control selection
· Thread and process priority selection with Pause/Resume support for every automatic function

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· "Multi ID3 Tag Editor" tab is now called "Multi Tagger"
· added "Recurse subfolders" option in Add -> Add Folder(s) for the playlist
· added "? Files ..." button in Open Folder(s) dialog to count the files and subfolders within the selected folder
· song label in mp3 Player have the tooltip with the file name and path

Multi Tagger updates:
· "Auto Complete" group and "String format" group are now in a new format: collapse panel
· added "Options" collapse panel
· Replace ID3v1 or v2 and "remove ReadOnly attribute" checkboxes are now in Options collapse panel
· added variables for the ID3 Tags fields: %artist%, %title%" ...
· added "Variables info" button in Options
· "Update All Tags" button ask for a confirmation

ID3 Tags updates:
· Comment on ID3v2 have multiple lines now
· genre on ID3v1 replacement was not working if only Genre checkbox was checked
· some ID3v2 fields could not be updated in "Multi Tagger" tab
· error report if track field is in incorrect format
· incorrect reference for Language and URL
· some parts of the window wasn't visible if the windows wasn't resized manually

[emanon]

Thank you Ha14...
I've been working more with mp3tag and have had some luck today with it, Using the internet look-up option...
The tag2folders looks like just what I need.. Haven't used it yet, As I am trying to get all the tags set first...
Thanks for your input..

[shan]

ive used bearshare and songbird to do that. both are good but songbird messed up some thing and winamp started to show wrong album art(david artchletas song display daugtrys album art).