Help for your music collection

If you’re like me, you’ve got gigs of mp3 on your hard drive, and perhaps you’ve been a little lax in terms of making sure the id3 tags are accurate when you ripped the music from your cd collection. Or maybe you’re grabbing a lot of it off of edonkey/dc++/usenet/caracho/whatever, where the metadata quality is all over the map. If you’ve got a portable mp3 player this can be a big hassle, since without accurate metadata the files won’t neccesarily play in the correct order or even let you know the artist and song title of the individual tracks. There are solutions to this, like itunes, mexp or the builtin media browsers in players like QCD and winamp, but each has its issues. My favorite tool up until now has been Tag & Rename, but it’s a little spendy for a one trick pony. Enter The Godfather. It’s donationware – give them what you think it’s worth – and it works great, integrating with the CDDB and Allmusic.com. The interface is equal to Tag & Rename’s, and it’s speedy. Check it out of your mp3 collection is starting to get unwieldy, it’s well worth the effort to clean now and then.

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