MP3s Here, MP3s There, MP3s Everywhere!

I dis­cov­ered today that I have over 5,000 MP3s–27 Gigabytes!–spread across three hard­drives. Enough is enough.

I’m pos­i­tive that a fair por­tion of them are dupli­cates. But how am I to tell with­out crawl­ing them one at a time? Afterall, many are named with the artist first while oth­ers are named with the album or track title first. Still oth­ers use paran­thet­ic file names or even album track num­bers as the file­name’s lead­ing infor­ma­tion. How do I orga­nize them into album fold­ers with­out read­ing each one?

What I need to do, I real­ized, was some­how rename the files to a uni­form, eas­i­ly under­stand­able scheme.

Enter MP3 Collector. When I became frus­trat­ed this morn­ing with sheer vol­ume of my MP3s it took me five min­utes with a care­ful­ly word­ed search string–“auto mp3 title rename”–to locate MP3 Collector. This nifty lit­tle share­ware app (for which I paid ten min­utes after installing it) will read in the title, artist, album, track num­ber, and much more about each MP3 on my sys­tem. Then it will rename, in batch, all my files to match my pref­er­ence. In this case my pref­er­ence is [Artist] – [Album Title] – [Track No.] – [Track Title].mp3.

I’m in the process of con­sol­i­dat­ing and clean­ing up my MP3 library right now.

2 thoughts on “MP3s Here, MP3s There, MP3s Everywhere!

  1. Zorbs

    wow, I don’t even have 27 gigs total in hard dri­ve space!

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