Tidying-up music folders

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My music folder is a complete mess. I don't usually care but I'm about to buy an iPod so I want them all to be properly tagged and named. Can anyone recommend the easiest way to do this, and any other tips to avoid things getting out of hand again?

― nate woolls (napawo), Friday, 3 February 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

it's a fucking chore

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Friday, 3 February 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

itunes will do it for ya.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Friday, 3 February 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

Move it all to a portable hard-drive and do it at work.

― everything, Friday, 3 February 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

I just realized I really really need to do this. Also: buy portable hard-drive... Where are my robot helpers?!

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 3 February 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

There are some scripts from Doug's AppleScripts that will help immensely. MediaRage is also good.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 3 February 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

i tunes will do this for you, but it only works if your tags are right. if you have untagged mp3s it doesn't know how to categorize them, dumps all of them into an unknown artist folder, and renames the files so you'll never find out what is what.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 3 February 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

Use a tagging program to get the tags right -- go to http://www.musicbrainz.org and download according to what system you're on -- and iTunes to organize the folders. Definitely the easiest solution.

― Mitya (mitya), Friday, 3 February 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

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