Hi,
Right, just finished building my Media Center PC. I have all my mp3s archived off onto DVDs. Each album is in its own folder with a file FOLDER.jpg as the folder album art. Now to have it work in Media Centre (MCE2005) all albums need to be incorporated into Media Library section of Media Player. When I import my albums into this they get thrown all over the shot. Spent an hour trying to fix albums and info manually. Its really annoying as I have to find track1 for each album then search for the album and then it moves it to a folder called "album name (artist)"; then I just drag/drop other songs into that folder. Ideally, I should search for each track one by one ... although this would take hours as you cannot just leave it running. It takes a good 10 seconds or so do each track anyway.
As for some albums, based on the naming convention, they get thrown into Unknown artist folder and then I have to spend ages sorting through these. Now I have about 20 dvds of archived music and this is likely going to take weeks to get sorted.
Am I doing something wrong or is there a quick fire solution to this?
Help would be serious appreciated!!!!!!
have you already MP3d them? or are you doing it now?
Sorry forgot to say; the albums are already in mp3 format.
Sounds to me like the problem is that they dont have accurate ID3 tags.
Quote from: Clockd 0NeSounds to me like the problem is that they dont have accurate ID3 tags.
thats what i was thinking. Ive had a hunt around and all i can find is ones that require full ID3 tags, and if the problem is there they arent gonna help.
That indeed is the problem; trouble is it is soooooo time consuming to fix them. Or perhaps, me just being impatient!! Perhaps, I need to take pride in my mp3 collection ....... er ......... no, anyone got any software? ha ha!!!
Having trowelled through about a million webpages (small exaggeration!); I have come to realise the ID tags have all got to be setup properly - there are utilities which assist tag/rename and mediamonkey although as a rule there is a lot of donkeywork involved. Ho hum!
strange question, but would it be quicker to re-grab them?
Ive always used audiograbber to set tags and output directories, so im not sure what other tools are available!
Re-grab them? Do you mean the tags? or do you mean re-rip the albums?
Quote from: mrtRe-grab them? Do you mean the tags? or do you mean re-rip the albums?
i mean re-rip the albums. Might be time consuming though. Depends what you are doing with it.
Windows Media Players is quite good for editing tags, you can high light a full album and then edit all the tags at once (just editing the album bit). At least then you only have to do one album at a time rather than each song.
itunes is good for tags.
wierd tho imo.
foobar2000 will tag mu3 and m3u8.
Tag&Rename is the program you want, it will even search the web/freedb to download full albums tag info.
It will more than halve the time you spend fixing this.
I did my whole collection in one evening.
Cheers guys. Guess what, I used MediaMonkey (free); and it scans each album and pulls all tags off the web for you. I currently have done half my collection in a whole evening (yippee!!!)
On another note, there is an application to update cover art also .. will post a link later.
Although a slight annoyance, once I had used MediaMonkey to update all albums tags etc ... media player still decided to duplicate about 4 albums out of 450 for no reason at all ... although was a simple case of drag/drop to move the two halves together. I will say its all running very nicely now.