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MP3s from P2P = Chaos!
I just imported all my old MP3s from my Dot-com days of 2000 where Napster use was rampant in my iTunes music library. I am not talking about the new Napster online DRM laden music store but the old fashion black hat Napster where you could find lots of music for free but it was often mislabeled, incomplete, and ripped and compressed using crappy methods.
So I am now starting the task of organizing, cleaning and purging my digital music library. This is all before I start to rip all my CDs to MP3 in earnest. I am going to have some mix albums lists for the unsortable and unclassifiable tracks. I currently have 13 Gigabytes of music to sort out before I continue with the CD ripping.
Sorting through folders of old MP3s is like going to the library with a shopping cart and ripping out about five pages out of random books until you have the shopping cart full or random book pages. Then you sit down and try to read all of them. It does not make for the best experience. One thing that is cool about ripping your own CDs and buying downloaded music is that it tends to be nice and organized. Then you get what you pay for and I cry two tears for the RIAA and Corporate Rock.
Jake at May 15, 2004 
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I still don't know how many mp3s are on my old computer. I'll need to check one of these days.
Posted by: Donald Myers Jr. at May 15, 2004 1:22 PM
Sorting MP3s is like sorting black ants. How the hell do you keep track of them??
Posted by: alex at May 16, 2004 5:39 AM
I rarely download single mp3s. I collect complete albums and CD5's, so it's much easier to tag (if i download the rarely untagged album/misnamed album).
I guess the key to sorting mp3s is starting your collection with a set organization that you will contiously use throughout building your library of music. It's worked well for me, but I've been doing it since I was 13 (so uhh, 8 years ago now?).
If you're renaming/tagging albums.. try to get ahold of Music Match JB Pro. It has a super tagging feature that is invaluable to point and click tagging (instead of manually typing stuff in) that saves loads of time. For uniform naming, look for the freeware "Renamer" (i've lost the website myself.. but it's out there).
and that's my 2 cents, hehe.
Posted by: Sean at May 16, 2004 10:29 AM
Adding my favorite tool, check out Tag & Rename. It's a utility for mass renaming / retagging, supporting CDDB lookup as well as album info from allmusic.com. It pulls in album cover art & reviews if you want it to. It's not a jukebox application, so it's much more streamlined and less memory intensive than something like Musicmatch is.
Posted by: Jeff at May 17, 2004 12:32 PM
