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.
wow, I don’t even have 27 gigs total in hard drive space!
Hehehe I’ll refrain from telling you how much HD space I have.