I've tried google, but with software you often get a lot of bulls*** artists trying to sell you their product.

Has anyone had to sort a collection of mp3 files that may not be correctly names/tagged to a consistent directory structure and file naming system ?

Also if it could remove or identify duplicates, that would be handy.

I've also heard of software that can create a playlist based on the overall mood and feel songs. Does anyone know about this?

iTunes works ok :P

Does it actually reorganise your directories and files?

as far as I know it does as long as the ID3 tags are good which you can do in bulk if oyu need to

Man it split songs from a complilation cd into all the seperate artists.. what the f***

tag and rename for tagging songs! it rocks - can rename multiple files, get tags from file name using a certain input mask etc!

use my program, songs that i like in winamp I label "cool" on the end of it so when i search... sweeeeet as bruz

google 'Synapse'

it was around a couple of years ago as an 'intelligent music player'. think it does all kinds of things.

itunes didn't really do what I wanted, it converted the files to m4a and it didn't take any cues from the original directory structure, and then it shat itself when it came across a bunch of 'protected' files and wouldn't process any more of my songs.

I'd rather something that will copy the original files to a new location with new names and stuff. Oh and if the ID3's could automatically be filled in from like an online database or something that would be tops :P

Make one.

agree ^^. i tried a few, did wierd stuff like you said about compulations albums. now i just do it manualy.

I did mine manually.
All 57 gig worth. Ahh that was a fun Saturday night.

iTunes works well once your music collection is tidy. Poor tagging will leave iTunes a bigger mess then when you started.

I use Musicbrainz and Picard To clean up all my tags and file names.

I use MP3tag for some other tasks.

The I throw them into the directory where my music goes and reimport it into iTunes.

What Obes said about MP3TAG - it's the shizzle. It can also build ID3 tags based on filename and directory I think.

I find Picard better for the initial clean up. It doesn't rely on file names or directory or tags being correct. It uses fingerprints combined with as much info as it can from file names or tags.

The end result is a very homogeneous library.

I am defintely not itune fan or apple fanboy... But Itunes does a really good job!!! when you change the name of the MP3 it renames the mp3 as well... its pretty handy for my collection....

tag and rename is a good one too, for renaming mp3 tags

I am really not convinced by itunes... it did a piss poor job really, and as far as I can tell it didn't like mp3 and wmv files, it tried to convert all 14 gig of them to ipod format... f*** me dead

Oh and the only software I want to use to actually browse my music collection is explorer.exe so the filenames and directory structure is more important than some embedded non-audio data I will never read.

it doesnt support wmv but it does mp3...

what you need to do is change the settings... but what setting you are on is for it to make its own directory etc when you add files to your libary.. so what its doing is actually copying all 14gb like you said..

isn't there something called musicmatch jukebox that goes online and gets all the information for you.

I think it can also automatically rename your files with info it gets from cddb.

That is now called "Yahoo! Jukebox" and doesn't have that feature anymore I think.

I've found mediamonkey to be the best!!

Its free, does tagging and bpm ect. Also it worked excellently when all your music is kept in format artist\album\tracks.mp3 ect, for automatically renaming the files, or getting media information from the web.

You can do bulk renames/tags/moving ect.

"musicmatch jukebox" has some serious issues with messing up tagging. For instance I found any mp3 I had ripped using MMJB could not have cover art attached. So I had to convert all the MMJB tags to IDv2.3 using Picard (because the MMJB ones were such a mess).

Also with your tags never go beyond ID3v2.3
v2.4 has multiple implementations