I have this collection of mp3s from the 90s-2000s from before the streaming services era. Back when people used Winamp or XMMS to listen to their music. I backed up my music files in two places and they’re both organized differently.
I need a tool to go through the whole thousands of files, find out what each track is (artist, album, track title, track number all that meta data), rename the file accordingly and apply all the metadata, then move the file in a certain directory structure.
Are there any music organizers out there that can do this? Or do I have to implement my own script?
UPDATE:
Musicbrainz Picard ended up doing exactly what I wanted. It identified all the songs using fingerprinting, updated all the tags and it moved all my files to a proper directory structure (artist/album/tracknumber - track title) into my Music folder.
Thank you @[email protected] for the recommendation! 😁
I use Strawberry for managing my music library. Easily organises files into directories and can manage multiple different libraries (I have separate libraries for music I want to dj with and music for general listening)
Yeah that’s another tool that seems very promising. I’ll give it a shot!
Ok so I installed Strawberry after all.
Wondering how I can make it reorganize my files in a folder structure like /artist/album/track ?
Ah interesting point, I’ve only done this when importing new songs, not to an entire library. Usually drag my new files from a file browser into a new playlist then I select then all and right click, then hit “move to library” which brings up a dialog that allows you to define your folder structure and naming conventions
Ah ok. Maybe I’ve done it the wrong way. I’ll try again.
There may be a way to organise a library in place but I’m not home until tomorrow so can’t check at the moment