Fixing Up My Tunes

April 8th, 2008 | Published in Apple, Microsoft, Music, Software

Oh, I needed this! I’ve got MP3s and MP4s and WMAs and god knows what else filling up gigs of storage at my house, thanks to a little sneakernet-ing not to mention ripping nearly my entire CD collection to my PC. And even though both Windows Media Player, iTunes, and my copy of Media Monkey all check online databases to find the metadata for the tunes, none of them are 100% perfect and mistakes happen. Plus, for some reason, there are those songs that they just can’t identify. And when you’ve filled up an 80 GB hard drive with MP3s and are still growing, the more automation, the better.

So when I discovered TagScanner, a free download that can help me organize my music, I was thrilled. The program can import tag info from freedb.org, Amazon, or TrackType.org, plus you can have it auto-generate tags from files and folders or rename your files based on tag info. The program supports tons of file types too, including:

MP3, OGG, Musepack, Monkey Audio, FLAC, AAC, OptimFROG, SPEEX, WavePack, TrueAudio, WMA, MP4 audio files

as well as

ID3 1.0/1.1/1.2/2/2.3/2.4, APE v1 and v2, WMA, MP4, and Vortbis tags, comments, and metadata.

Now I haven’t tested this out yet (this looks like a weekend project for me), but I’m hoping this will be the app that finally gets my library in shape.