The simplest way for it to understand what an MP3 is is by the tags it already has, and if they’re incomplete or inconsistent it will sort this out for you. It will also rename all the tracks in your music collection to follow a neat and logical convention. This scans your entire music collection and then recognises what’s what and depending on your preferred convention (which you can specify in the settings) it will correctly tag each MP3 file and arrange them into folders for album, inside a folder for that artist. I found this to be the best of all the apps I tried for the bulk of the work (until I found Bliss – see number 4).
1) Automatically tagging, renaming and moving your music files to a structured system: Musicbrainz Picard (free) The idea was that gradually my Music folder would empty as all sorted music got moved, after which I deleted my Music folder and renamed the “sorted” folder to just “Music”. To start with, I created a new folder called “ Music (Sorted)” to sit alongside my Music folder.
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I won’t go into great depth on how to use each one because there are already plenty of online tutorials on each one, not least on the vendors’ websites, but if you’re wanting to sort out your music collection, you can follow my recommendations and save time researching and looking for programs yourself!Īll but one of these programmes are free, but the one you pay for ( Bliss) is a great tool and I’d say it’s definitely worth the very reasonable cost.
#Songkong artist folder software
In the end, I used 4 main pieces of software to get the job done, and I’m very pleased with how each one performed. I experimented with quite a few programmes, many of which I quickly uninstalled after I found they weren’t up to the job. From a variety of sources, whether that’s CDs that I’ve ripped, MP3s bought from the likes of Amazon or Google Play, or any other legal source, things have a tendency to get rather messy and when there’s over 50GB worth of files, it’s certainly not a job I would ever get round to doing manually! I recently decided that it was about time I sorted out my very messy music collection, which I’ve built up over the years every since the MP3 file format really took off.
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