Friday, August 09, 2013

Top 10 ways to organize your mp3 music collection with tagging and playlist software

After many years of gathering mp3 music files I'm tired of searching for super song(s) I know I had in my collection.
"Search Everything" is a good generic search tool to find the mp3 file.
However if I want to listen to say only kishore kumar song's etc. I need to add mp3 tags to the song files.
I've got a big hard-disk on which I can store all the music files and keep updating my collection so that it becomes more organized over time. All I need is the right software for the job

Note: Work in Progress - I'm still trying to re-organize my collection.
So I'll be updating this blog on my progress on the following
a) get rid of the bad or wishy-washy stuff
b) let the good stuff bubble to the top
c) reorganize the mountain into manageable chunks
d) view the same collection in many ways -

  • genre, 
  • mood, 
  • 90's collection, 
  • kishore-kumar,
  • r.d.burman,
  • hindi-film-songs,
  • indian classical
    • carnatic
    • hindustani
    • instrumental
    • vocal
    • by-raga
    • by-time


Feature-wish-list:
  • auto-tagging - via mp3dbs
  • search by tag - artist, album, genre
  • playlist - make playlist based on mood/genre/artist/90s/tag etc. Kinda like running an sql query on titles
  • tag-bundles - sad songs, peppy songs, dance-numbers etc.
  • directory reorganizing - reorganize titles to folders
  • duplicate remover -
  • lyrics finder
  • cover-art
  • context info - auto search context info based on title selected/playing
  • suggestions - if you like this you may also like

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Articles:
http://lifehacker.com/5266613/six-best-mp3-tagging-tools
http://lifehacker.com/246118/screenshot-tour-the-beautiful-and-varied-world-of-foobar2000
http://lifehacker.com/245359/hack-attack-roll-your-own-killer-audio-player-with-foobar2000

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/applications/best-free-mp3-software-11-programs-for-playing-and-managing-your-music-1143479
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-04-24/computing/31391986_1_tags-files-windows-media-player
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-windows-media-player-replacement.htm

Software:

  • mediamonkey (player cum tagger): http://www.mediamonkey.com/
    • monkeyrok (context info view clone of amarok for mediamonkey) : http://www.mediamonkey.com/addons/download/371/
  • foobar2000 (customizable player cum tagger): http://www.foobar2000.org/
  • Amarok (player cum tagger): http://userbase.kde.org/Amarok
  • mp3tag (free mp3 tagging software) : http://www.mp3tag.de/en
  • musicbrainz-picard (tagger with db): http://musicbrainz.org/doc/PicardTagger
  • free make converter (convert audio formats) : http://www.freemake.com/
  • advanced renamer (file renamer): http://www.advancedrenamer.com/



Tag-DBs:

  • foobar2000 : http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000redirect:C16D48EE-39BE-4C91-9A35-441BEFA286D2
  • musicbrainz : http://musicbrainz.org
  • freedb : http://www.freedb.org/
  • discogs : http://www.discogs.com/


list of mp3 tag editing s/w for windows : http://en.lo4d.com/windows/mp3-id3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_music_databases

Cover Art:
amazon.com

Tune Recognizing software:
soundhound (hum your song on phone)
shazam (play song snippet)

Youtube offline playing:
VLC youtube playlist extension:
http://addons.videolan.org/content/show.php/Media+Context?content=143241
http://lifehacker.com/5963274/play-any-youtube-playlist-with-vlc-media-player-for-ad+free-listening

Serendipity:
Indian Collections on discogs : http://www.discogs.com/explore?country=India

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