organizing MP3 files

[glatt]

Turns out you have to go slow. Probably one album at a time, to make sure it's doing it right.

It had trouble identifying which album Stop Making Sense was, and was assigning the tracks to greatest hits and other albums. It identified the tracks correctly, but was putting in the album information incorrectly, so I had to manually move the tracks into the correct album. Otherwise, they would end up playing in the wrong order.

I'm afraid that when I was initially just letting it do everything automatically, it assigned many tracks to the wrong albums, so the track order is all messed up.

Oh well. So it's less automatic than I thought. You have to watch it.

I can start over again. I still have the original source material, so I may just do this over and go slow next time.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by glatt

I'm afraid that when I was initially just letting it do everything automatically, it assigned many tracks to the wrong albums, so the track order is all messed up.

Oh well. So it's less automatic than I thought. You have to watch it.

I'm done cleaning everything up. I went through 197 albums containing about 2400 tracks.

This program correctly identified about 60% of my albums with no problems at all including getting the track titles right and in the correct order. For about 30% of the albums, it would identify the tracks, but assign some of them to incorrect albums, so I had to manually drag them from the wrong album (like a greatest hits compilation or movie soundtrack) and into the correct album. And worst of all, for about 10% of albums, it failed to identify anything, or might only identify one song if that song had shown up on an obscure movie soundtrack or something. To be fair, for the most part, when I'd try playing some of those unidentified tracks, I couldn't recognize anything about them, so they were also unknown to me. I mean they were unknown to my friend. I had nothing to do with any of this.

None of the tracks it was asked to identify were from later than 2001. So I don't know how it would do with contemporary music. The completeness of the music database is the key.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Things a little slow at work?

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Things a little slow at work?

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