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!!!)