However it can currently handle the vast majority of things including compilations and multi-CD releases, so it saves me a shit load of time. I'm thinking about making it available to the public, but as discogs doesn't yet have a proper web based interface available to programmers there are certain releases that it can't parse correctly (it uses page scraping and regular expressions to parse the release information, incase there are any geeks like me out there who are wondering :)). I have over 35000 mp3s so I got sick of tagging stuff and actually decided to write my own program that I can give a URL of a discogs release to and it goes out and gets all the info relating to the release and automatically tags the mp3s. I've got a feeling that you can set up something similar using iTunes, but I'm not 100% sure as I've never used it! I also rate the songs, 1 star to 5 stars, so once you bring up for example the Chillout view, you can also enter in the search box at the top ?rating=5 which narrows the query down to those tracks in those genres that I've rated 5, i.e my favourite ones. Or if you are an OLD SKOOL LOVER, you could set up a view with the query ?year > 1979 and year < 1994. Or, another on called Chillout has a query something like ?genre has reggae or genre has ambient. Clicking on that smart view brings me up all the tracks recorded by James Stinson and Gerald Donald, all the aliases of Drexciya. By way of example, I've set up a smart view called Drexciya, which has the following query: ?artist has "abstract thought" or artist has "clarence g" or artist has "drexciya" or artist has "lab rat xl" or artist has "other people place" or artist has "shifted phases", amongst other things. Once the tracks are labelled correctly, they go into my Winamp library, and this is where it gets fun:īecause all the fields are entered correctly, you can set up in the Winamp library what they call "smart views", which allow you to set up a sort of free playlist. 'Twas a killer doing 25,000 tracks, but at least I can touch-type now ) I've got genres sorted, techno, house, drum n bass, electro etc etc, and also have label information in the comment field. I've got every last MP3 with correct artist/title/album fields entered. I used to use MP3/Tag which is good but not as good as Tag&Rename. So if you don't want it to name material it doesn't necessarily have to or you can go in and edit it afterwards as well. Importing the material via iPod or mp3 disc, or external harddrive the files stay the same as when you probably downloaded them or your mate downloaded them. Need an 8 bit 24k copy of Motley Crue Girls girls girls, it's yours provided you got a cd copy of it. You can set up playlists, by genre, by what you like to hear together and by whatever you choose as well.ĭepending on how you decide you want to import material by the settings you have in your preferences you can control what happens with your mp3 as you bring it in as well on down to the bitrate and so on. Volume, genre, or eq type are only applied to the file as Itunes uses it and are only tags within the software and don't affect the file itself. Other than that, the songs, the albums etc all stay within the artists folder and what settings you have on the individual files. You won't mess too much if at all with behind the scenes file management nor the files and unless you tick compilation in the item info at which point it moves the material into a compilations folder. genre's sub genre's bpms, eq style, bitrate, file type, length. You can break things down and organize them within the program anyway you want it seems. I have it broken down by genre, micro genre, artist, album, etc. I use iTunes and have at last count, over 16,000 mp3 type files and don't have any problems with finding anything. What do you use right now? It doesn't sound like you set your own preferences within the software and use it out of the box default style.
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