Dave’s Lounge #84

Posted on by June 13, 2007

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So I spent weeks looking for ways to improve my PC setup in my living room. I looked through catalogs and web sites for assorted furniture that would fit what I was looking for. Then, on a whim, I just rearranged some of the furniture I already had. Turns out that was all I really need to do.

Well, maybe not all I needed. This dining room table is still too large and needs replacing, but at least I have a much better idea of what I need now…

Thanks to everyone who suggested MP3 tagging software last week. I tried a few and decided to go with the simply named MP3tag, and while I still have a lot of organizing to do with this gigantic music collection of mine, I can see a light at the end of the tunnel now. Which is nice.

Playlist for Dave's Lounge #84:

  1. Electric Skychurch, "Heaven"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes
  2. Mudville, "This Hollywood Life"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes
  3. Brookville, "Blue Morning"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes
  4. Love Spirals Downwards, "City Moon"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | CD Baby
  5. Sutro, "Temptress"  Buy from: iTunes | CD Baby
  6. Area 27, "Black Sun"  Buy from: iTunes | CD Baby

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Need Help with MP3 File Tagging

Posted on by June 6, 2007

Folks,

I'm throwing this out to the podcast audience in the hope that someone might be able to point me in the right direction.

I am currently in the process of fixing all the tags on my giant MP3 collection. I've gotten all the full albums fixed, and now I'm onto the singles. However, I have a huge number of loose singles, and close to half of them appear to be without tags. Going through and tagging files individually will take a very, very long time.

So what I'm looking for is a program that will read the name of a file, every one of which is named Artist – Title.mp3, take the artist and title info from the filename and put that into each file's ID3 tag. I've found tons of programs that do the opposite — take the ID3 tag and change the name of the file — but I haven't found one that will read the filename and parse that name into an ID3 tag.

If anyone out there knows of such a program, post a comment here. My MP3 collection is about 76 gigabytes right now, and the singles take up somewhere between 20 and 30 GB, so anything that will help me avoid going through all those old files individually would be a big help.

Thanks, everyone.