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Title: How do you manage your mp3 libraries, tagging, organisation
Post by: Nat Turner-reincarnated on March 10, 2008, 02:47:29 PM
can anyone break down how you tag you albums/songs etc??..... eye am tryin to do this... but for some reason its not workin and eye am getting tired of manually forcin songs into the proper album after the get added to my library..... peace
Title: Re: How do you manage your mp3 libraries, tagging, organisation
Post by: Mackin on March 10, 2008, 02:51:35 PM
^^ well I usually Right click on the said song and select 'Album Info' and if the said album is recognized on Windows Media Player lib,then it will find it and tagged it that way..
if the search brings up nothing, then you'll have to manually do it I'm afraid-Hope that helps!
Title: Re: How do you manage your mp3 libraries, tagging, organisation
Post by: Al Bundy on March 10, 2008, 02:54:49 PM
i use media monkey to organize my music. i made it so it looks like so:

(http://i31.tinypic.com/289lqp2.jpg)

(http://i27.tinypic.com/4rs1ep.jpg)
Title: Re: How do you manage your mp3 libraries, tagging, organisation
Post by: Mackin on March 10, 2008, 02:58:07 PM
^^That's Impressive Bundy! 8) 8)
Title: Re: How do you manage your mp3 libraries, tagging, organisation
Post by: Nat Turner-reincarnated on March 10, 2008, 03:00:33 PM








i use media monkey to organize my music. i made it so it looks like so:

(http://i31.tinypic.com/289lqp2.jpg)

(http://i27.tinypic.com/4rs1ep.jpg)
^^^^^^^ damn what the hell........how you get it like that???????/ lets break bread n build on this...... take for example if eye make a mix......... and put it in a folder.......and try to add it to my library.... it will add but being that the songs are tagged they get put in their own section  for example what ever the album that song is from.... there will be that album name and that one song in it....... eye just started using media monkey and thats why eye am tryin to do this on
Title: Re: How do you manage your mp3 libraries, tagging, organisation
Post by: Al Bundy on March 10, 2008, 03:12:58 PM
^^^^^^^ damn what the hell........how you get it like that???????/ lets break bread n build on this...... take for example if eye make a mix......... and put it in a folder.......and try to add it to my library.... it will add but being that the songs are tagged they get put in their own section  for example what ever the album that song is from.... there will be that album name and that one song in it....... eye just started using media monkey and thats why eye am tryin to do this on

Right click and click properties and edit the song names and album name to whatever. If you highlight all of the songs, you can make it so every song has the same album name and artist through out without having to manually edit them all. What I do is just right click on the stuff and go to Auto-Tag From Amazon and get the album information through that and then Auto Organize Files using this:

C:\Users\Insert Your Name\Music\<Album>\<Track#> - <Title>

If you're on XP then that won't work. That's Vistas folder hierarchy.
Title: Re: How do you manage your mp3 libraries, tagging, organisation
Post by: Nat Turner-reincarnated on March 10, 2008, 03:17:20 PM
^^^^^^^ damn what the hell........how you get it like that???????/ lets break bread n build on this...... take for example if eye make a mix......... and put it in a folder.......and try to add it to my library.... it will add but being that the songs are tagged they get put in their own section  for example what ever the album that song is from.... there will be that album name and that one song in it....... eye just started using media monkey and thats why eye am tryin to do this on

Right click and click properties and edit the song names and album name to whatever. If you highlight all of the songs, you can make it so every song has the same album name and artist through out without having to manually edit them all. What I do is just right click on the stuff and go to Auto-Tag From Amazon and get the album information through that and then Auto Organize Files using this:

C:\Users\Insert Your Name\Music\<Album>\<Track#> - <Title>

If you're on XP then that won't work. That's Vistas folder hierarchy.
Oh fo sho.. eye am going to try this right now and see what is up........ appreciate the help
Also do you do that before you add to the library or after you add and do it in media monkey?
Title: Re: How do you manage your mp3 libraries, tagging, organisation
Post by: Al Bundy on March 10, 2008, 03:17:43 PM
Oh yeah and for the album images, you can either 1.) copy and paste into the album cover field on mediamonkey or let mediamonkey try and find it through amazon. Make sure you save the image to folder.jpg in the folder so you have the cover for the folder
Title: Re: How do you manage your mp3 libraries, tagging, organisation
Post by: Al Bundy on March 10, 2008, 03:18:06 PM
^^^^^^^ damn what the hell........how you get it like that???????/ lets break bread n build on this...... take for example if eye make a mix......... and put it in a folder.......and try to add it to my library.... it will add but being that the songs are tagged they get put in their own section  for example what ever the album that song is from.... there will be that album name and that one song in it....... eye just started using media monkey and thats why eye am tryin to do this on

Right click and click properties and edit the song names and album name to whatever. If you highlight all of the songs, you can make it so every song has the same album name and artist through out without having to manually edit them all. What I do is just right click on the stuff and go to Auto-Tag From Amazon and get the album information through that and then Auto Organize Files using this:

C:\Users\Insert Your Name\Music\<Album>\<Track#> - <Title>

If you're on XP then that won't work. That's Vistas folder hierarchy.
Oh fo sho.. eye am going to try this right now and see what is up........ appreciate the help
Also do you do that before you add to the library or after you add and do it in media monkey?

Afterwards.
Title: Re: How do you manage your mp3 libraries, tagging, organisation
Post by: Nat Turner-reincarnated on March 10, 2008, 03:19:32 PM
^^^^^^^ damn what the hell........how you get it like that???????/ lets break bread n build on this...... take for example if eye make a mix......... and put it in a folder.......and try to add it to my library.... it will add but being that the songs are tagged they get put in their own section  for example what ever the album that song is from.... there will be that album name and that one song in it....... eye just started using media monkey and thats why eye am tryin to do this on

Right click and click properties and edit the song names and album name to whatever. If you highlight all of the songs, you can make it so every song has the same album name and artist through out without having to manually edit them all. What I do is just right click on the stuff and go to Auto-Tag From Amazon and get the album information through that and then Auto Organize Files using this:

C:\Users\Insert Your Name\Music\<Album>\<Track#> - <Title>

If you're on XP then that won't work. That's Vistas folder hierarchy.
Oh fo sho.. eye am going to try this right now and see what is up........ appreciate the help
Also do you do that before you add to the library or after you add and do it in media monkey?

Afterwards.
k on the real thank you..... going to try to organize my library thanks again
Title: Re: How do you manage your mp3 libraries, tagging, organisation
Post by: Mackin on March 10, 2008, 04:07:49 PM
Hey Bundy does that work for mixtapes or songs that are not sold via Amazon..loading images or would one have to go searching for the mixtape covers??
Title: Re: How do you manage your mp3 libraries, tagging, organisation
Post by: Al Bundy on March 10, 2008, 04:11:42 PM
Hey Bundy does that work for mixtapes or songs that are not sold via Amazon..loading images or would one have to go searching for the mixtape covers??

Nah you'll have to manually search for track listing and covers yourself. But MediaMonkey makes it very easy to add and edit tracks.
Title: Re: How do you manage your mp3 libraries, tagging, organisation
Post by: Mackin on March 10, 2008, 04:33:15 PM
Aiight props Bundy,you've been a great help!!
+1
Title: Re: How do you manage your mp3 libraries, tagging, organisation
Post by: Nat Turner-reincarnated on March 10, 2008, 04:45:30 PM
Aiight props Bundy,you've been a great help!!
+1
WORD!!!!!!!
Title: Re: How do you manage your mp3 libraries, tagging, organisation
Post by: Al Bundy on March 10, 2008, 04:50:24 PM
no problem. let me know if you need anything else
Title: Re: How do you manage your mp3 libraries, tagging, organisation
Post by: Don Seer on March 11, 2008, 04:25:19 AM
(topics merged.. but poll remains!)


Late last year i got a laptop to stem my transient lifestyle.. (i spend at least half the week outta town at my girls these days) and since forever i've had a big mess of mp3s... a stash at work.. a stash on home pc etc etc. now with the laptop i've got a stable constant thing with me wherever i am.

plus i have a car head unit that pulls songs from a memory stick.. so i needed to be able to just copy albums i've sorted onto that. 

since then i've been taking my collection of CDs and importing them into Windows Media Centre on my laptop and thats what i use to catalog everything... works best as i get to organise them on the harddisk as I want, but they're presented the same in windows media centre.. and i know that the mp3s arent "tied" into some kind of system where i dont have access to them.. it has the album art, the track names/numbers are all sorted... pretty fly really... love it..  i still have a long way to go.. but its great just being able to tap "ice" into the windows media centre front-end and see all the ice cube album covers then pick what i want. plus the laptop has a remote which can be handy as well...

and i also know that if i build another HTPC with a media remote everyhing will be available there

so how are you lot managing your stuff?





heres an example of how my shit looks right now in windows media centre..  window borders arent normally there but ALT+print-screen doesnt work when its full screen

(http://www.rollinondubs.net/overseer/wmc.jpg)


and with a visualisation running..  (its just starting to play that song, its not there all the time..)
(http://www.rollinondubs.net/overseer/wmcv.jpg)


Title: Re: How do you manage your mp3 libraries, tagging, organisation
Post by: Al Bundy on March 11, 2008, 04:32:58 AM
http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=172770.0
Title: Re: How do you manage your mp3 libraries, tagging, organisation
Post by: Don Seer on March 11, 2008, 04:37:03 AM
crazy! i looked to see if i'd made this topic before haha!


merged and keep the poll in the main section
Title: Re: How do you manage your mp3 libraries, tagging, organisation
Post by: Al Bundy on March 11, 2008, 04:42:32 AM
windows media center extender is about the only wmc thing i'd fuck with. There are so many better alternatives to that shit program.
Title: Re: How do you manage your mp3 libraries, tagging, organisation
Post by: Don Seer on March 11, 2008, 04:47:35 AM
yeah windows media player itself is pretty wack.. but its actually not bad at setting up the media for the media center extender.. the extender presents it fairly well.... the extender plays movies n shit too (some settings needed for some codecs though) so i can use the remote.. like i might get given a movie at work on a usb stick or something... then i go to my girls... i plug into the hdmi on my girls tv... and boom.. movie mode... the laptop has a remote tucked away... so fly... been wanting shit like this for years

the most important things to know about media centre are..

1) the "album artist" tags are needed for everything to be organised right
2) the "apply media information" thing that you should do after editting tags
Title: Re: How do you manage your mp3 libraries, tagging, organisation
Post by: Rud on March 11, 2008, 04:48:34 AM
sounds awesome. what notebook you got seer?
Title: Re: How do you manage your mp3 libraries, tagging, organisation
Post by: Don Seer on March 11, 2008, 04:56:09 AM
HP dv2535ea.. core2duo, 2 gig of mem, 160 gig hdd... 14inch screen (15s are cheaper but needed portability.. this is in my rucksack from home/work/girlies)

got firewire too.. i have nice sony camcorder i got for recording skate stuff about a month later (sony hc96)

its vga, svideo and hdmi out..
never really considered the hdmi but now i wouldnt be without it..

and lots of newer lcd tv's

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pavilion-Processor-Widescreen-Bluetooth-networking/dp/B000TNWDVC
Title: Re: How do you manage your mp3 libraries, tagging, organisation
Post by: Rud on March 11, 2008, 05:01:00 AM
Nice spec! i need to get a new notebook, cant decide what yet though!

yea hdmi is a must now!
Title: Re: How do you manage your mp3 libraries, tagging, organisation
Post by: topshotta on March 11, 2008, 08:33:22 AM
Mediamonkey is a great program!

Try it:

http://www.zshare.net/download/87797801a81441/
MediaMonkey Gold 3 with keymaker
Title: Re: How do you manage your mp3 libraries, tagging, organisation
Post by: Jome on March 11, 2008, 08:40:38 AM
Yeah, I recommend MediaMonkey as well, just take a look at this thread:

http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=163330.0

There's no need for tagging, you can just organize the albums/singles in folders, and choose to view the folders in tree-view.

Title: Re: How do you manage your mp3 libraries, tagging, organisation
Post by: 1234 on March 11, 2008, 09:26:36 AM
I have it all on Windows Media Player. Its easier than those other media players. I gotta huge collection of albums and mixtapes.
Title: Re: How do you manage your mp3 libraries, tagging, organisation
Post by: Shango on March 11, 2008, 09:36:27 AM
the new winamp is the shit
Title: Re: How do you manage your mp3 libraries, tagging, organisation
Post by: Don Seer on March 11, 2008, 09:46:37 AM
I have it all on Windows Media Player. Its easier than those other media players. I gotta huge collection of albums and mixtapes.

it'll migrate to windows media centre nicely if you get a windows xp media pc, or a vista home premium one too.. digital convergence is coming..

in fact anything that does album art + stuffs the album artist tag in should work out great



the dope visualisations pack i got came from  http://www.istartedsomething.com/20070831/psychedelia-wmp-visualization/

pretty sure they'll work in windows media player too
Title: Re: How do you manage your mp3 libraries, tagging, organisation
Post by: Ozir on March 11, 2008, 11:30:20 AM
I use iTunes and Front Row (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_Row) on a Mac ...

(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y143/ozir/link%20images/frontrow01.jpg)

(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y143/ozir/link%20images/frontrow06.jpg)

(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y143/ozir/link%20images/frontrow02.jpg)

(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y143/ozir/link%20images/frontrow03.jpg)

(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y143/ozir/link%20images/frontrow04.jpg)

(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y143/ozir/link%20images/visualizer.jpg)


Title: Re: How do you manage your mp3 libraries, tagging, organisation
Post by: WICK1D on March 11, 2008, 12:12:45 PM
Which program is best for an apple lap top
Title: Re: How do you manage your mp3 libraries, tagging, organisation
Post by: Don Seer on March 11, 2008, 01:47:18 PM
look at the prev post :)
Title: Re: How do you manage your mp3 libraries, tagging, organisation
Post by: Al Bundy on March 11, 2008, 04:03:42 PM
Yeah, I recommend MediaMonkey as well, just take a look at this thread:

http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=163330.0

There's no need for tagging, you can just organize the albums/singles in folders, and choose to view the folders in tree-view.



I tag everything so it's easier to find things by album name