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How
to Organize your Digital Audio Collection |
by:
Ross
MacIver |
If you
have been collecting audio files for even
a short while, you probably have a fair
number stored on your computer. Finding
a specific song by clicking through directories
can be tedious and time-consuming, so you
really need a way to find what you are looking
for quickly and easily. Fortunately, there
are many software packages that can help
you do just that - organize your music collection
and let you find songs by name, artist,
or almost any other classification.
MP3 files can have "tags" imbedded in the
file that store information about the song.
Standard tags are Title, Artist, Album,
Track, Year, Genre, Composer, and Comments.
Most MP3 files that you find on the internet
will use at least some of these tags - Title
and Artist being the most common.
If you have lots of MP3s that don't have
tags, you can use a program like MP3 Tag
Tools that can add tags automatically. MP3
Tag Tools is freeware and there are many
other programs that have similar functions.
Tags will be generated from the file name
or the folder name. You can process all
your MP3 files at the same time, and even
re-name files according to their tags.
Now that you have all your MP3s tagged,
you need to have a database to make it easy
to find any song in your collection. Once
again, there are hundreds of programs specifically
designed to catalog your music collection.
You can find both freeware and commercial
products. You don't have to use a program
specifically for MP3s - any search program
can find files for you - but MP3 cataloguers
have special functions for organizing your
music collection and creating playlists.
MediaMonkey is a popular software title
which manages your entire music collection
including MP3s, CDs, and other popular formats
like OGG, WMA and FLAC. It has a built-in
player and has functions for building playlists,
ripping CDs, finding CD information from
the internet, and automatic volume adjustment.
You can use MediaMonkey or other similar
programs to search for a song by title,
artist, year, album or almost any other
criteria including bitrate, length, or file
format.
About the Author
Ross is an enthusiast audio professional
take advantage of his knowledge about
MP3,
AAC,OGG, FLAC SHN and other compression
and capturing techniques |
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