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How To
Organize Your Digital Audio Collection
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by:
Ross MacIver
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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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