Keeping your digital music tagged with artist and title details is essential if you want to find a particular track, and it’s pretty uncontroversial if the song in question is performed by a single artist. But what if it’s one of the innumerable songs ‘featuring’ a guest performance by another artist? More »
There’s plenty of technology to help you get your digital music collection into shape, but most approaches are designed with an artist-centric pop music approach in mind. Lifehacker reader Chris outlines an alternative approach to use if you have a large classical music collection and want to play movements in the correct order. More »
Most of us have spent years building up our digital music libraries, along with tons of missing, mismatched and incorrect tags on your music over that time. Here’s a step-by-step guide for organising your entire library, once and for all. More »
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Windows/Mac OS X: Free application BPM Analyzer determines the beats per minute (BPM) of any MP3 on your computer, then automatically updates the ID3 tags with the BPM info—perfect for finding workout music to hit the 120-140 BPM sweet spot. More »
Windows only: The bigger your iTunes library, the more difficult it becomes to locate and fix any problems that arise, whether you’re faced with play counts or ratings gone awry, missing or duplicate tracks, or missing album art. That’s where diagnostic tool meta-iPod comes in handy. More »
Windows/Mac/Linux: MindRaider wants to be the place you stash all your sudden thoughts, organizational notes, and inter-connected ideas. That’s because it offers links, visualisations, and other tools to help you make sense of it all. More »
Windows only: Use the same kind of quick-thinking, fast-organising tags you use to organise your web life with TaggedFrog, a free Windows utility that sorts and finds any file you can throw at it. Windows Vista (and the Windows 7 beta) already have native tagging systems, and OS X has long offered search-able metadata as a simple filing system. Vista’s tagging is limited to certain file types, though, and it’s in need of a central tag station, much like the one TaggedFrog provides. TaggedFrog tags any file you have with any words you want, so you can selectively tag files to separate projects, keep a track of any MP3s with curse words in them, or whatever quick-search needs you have. As you search, a “cloud” view shows the most-accessed, or most-tagged, keywords, and you can narrow your search by file extension for heavily-used tags. There’s a portable, no-install version available at the program page, so even if you only want to try out TaggedFrog for a quick MP3 organisational mission, you’re good to go. TaggedFrog is a free download for Windows systems, requires the .NET 2.0 framework for both the installed and portable versions.
TaggedFrog [via FreewareGenius.com]
