Organizing Mp3s

It's good to see how programs like Windows Media Player or WinAmp include a median library to organize the music we've got in our PC and so we can fin "easily" the song we want to listen. But if the music files are outside the computer, burned on CD or DVD, finding them become more complicated.

To make it easier, the best thing we can do is catalogue our Mp3 CDs. I use the program MPEG Audio Collection (MAC), that checks CD content and put the information in a database. With that we can have in the database 25 CDs and search for "Metallica" and it will give us the results for all 25 CDs without having to introduce each CD one by one. Faster Impossible.

Catalogue requires a little bit of work, but the benefits are huge and it saves us a lot of time. Although, to get the best results, the use of ID3 information such as song title, artist and album, is imperative.

Yesterday, Renis told me that he was listening to Héroes del Silencio but WinAmp only showed Track01, Track02, Track03… and he didn't want to write all the songs names, album, band and the rest of data. To make it so, there is a wonderful application, Tagscanner, that is free like MAC. With it we can edit in the fastest way our mp3s' tags. We can select the files of an album and it can search for the data in the CDDB. It requires some practice to get used to the program but, step by step, you will learn it. I have tried many programs to perform these tasks and no one is as good as Tagscanner.

I try to edit the ID3 of all my Mp3 and I put numbers in my CDs and DVDs. Looking for what I want to hear has never been easier. Estimated time for the whole thing, 20 seconds. Impressive.