At http://musicbrainz.org/ you can find a program that produces "musical fingerprints" of your music files, compares them to a database, and semi-automatically tags them with the correct artist, album, track name, number, year, and genre information (semi-automatically because you can still veto, although you can configure it to do it fully automatically). It can then also rename the files with a custom naming scheme specified by you based on the tags.
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Used this a lot when I was still on Windows. Had a large number of misidentifications before, but was generally rather spot on.“And, remember: there's no 'I' in 'irony'†~ Merlin Mann -
There is a mac client now on the download page. Interestingly, it absolutely accurately identified tracks from a german tribute album to a german band, but couldn't make sense of the Beatles' white album
Those were about the only tracks it couldn't identify, though, out of thousands.
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Yeah, knew about the Mac client, only problem is that I don't have any tracks that need identifying anymore.“And, remember: there's no 'I' in 'irony'†~ Merlin MannComment
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If that fits your definition of a problem, could we possibly trade problems?
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oooooo Thanks I've been looking for something like this. I'll have to see whether it or I blow up first when fixing my 100GB of mp3'sWikipedia and Google.... the needles to my tangent habit.
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I should let it go at my some 15000 misc mp3's .. how long does it take to handle a song?We have enough youth - What we need is a fountain of smart!
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Never heard of it before but I must say it works pretty good
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It does take a second or so per song, so maybe you don't want to unleash it on all your mp3s at once - especially as it wants confirmation for ever file it changes (this can be disabled, but what if it's wrong? Chaos ensues...).Comment
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great find! Mp3Tag was getting a bit on my nerves. I'll report on how well it'll work with the 'uncommon' music I listen to.Comment
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It works really well, been using it for a lonf time - I tagged all of mys songs properly before using Audioscrobbler (now Last.fm), as they recommended it (yes, not only "proper tagging" but also "tag them using Musibrainz)
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