Programs to use and organize music?

[abescalamis 84]

Does anybody know of a program that can organize my music the way Emby likes it, preferably by the Artist. does anybody knows of a good program that does that?

 

[Diedrich 377]

https://picard.musicbrainz.org

[Jdiesel 1431]

I run all my music through beets before adding it to Emby.

 

http://beets.io

[Deathsquirrel 745]

I run everything I rip through Picard and then MP3Tag.  Picard does all the tagging and MP3Tag lets me change some Picard data that I disagree with, such as their occasionally insane take on music genres.

 

If you need to rename the files too for whatever reason, mediamonkey does a good job.

[Guest asrequested]

Picard has never been able to make any sense of my music. I think that's a comment on how bad my music organization is I've been manually picking through it.

Edited May 24, 2018 by Doofus

[d00zah 149]

Picard can also rename/move into a proper folder structure, which is VERY handy for an Emby library.

 

Sometimes, choosing 'Lookup', rather than 'Scan' for a list of new additions will yield better results for problematic music.

 

It has its quirks, but once you get the hang of it...

[Guest]

I use Picard and I do not think there is anything similar. It really does a great job with the tags. I strongly recommend.

[Guest asrequested]

Picard can also rename/move into a proper folder structure, which is VERY handy for an Emby library.

 

Sometimes, choosing 'Lookup', rather than 'Scan' for a list of new additions will yield better results for problematic music.

 

It has its quirks, but once you get the hang of it...

Unfortunately, I have a lot of exotic compilations which have been messed with by other software, over the years. Picard renames the files and moves them, incorrectly. Even when I manually look them up on musicbrainz, I have to jump through hoops.

[d00zah 149]

Unfortunately, I have a lot of exotic compilations which have been messed with by other software, over the years. Picard renames the files and moves them, incorrectly. Even when I manually look them up on musicbrainz, I have to jump through hoops.

 

I have my share of 'exotic' stuff, too, but if the ID is questionable, I don't commit anything.

 

If I can find the right info somewhere in MB, I'll blank all tags & just apply appropriate ID(s), save & rescan. Or try 'mp3tag''s db... eventually, it works out.

 

This is one of the 'quirks' I mention. OCD & dogged determination...

 

Still, it sux to go back & try to fix a large, non-compliant collection.

[negativzeroe 80]

http://mediamonkey.com/ Been using for like over a decade.

[darkassassin07 652]

Magic MP3 Tagger

 

I used this to rename, tag and sort my library of almost 10k songs. It allows you to just re tag/name or, set a folder structure as well as the output folder then tag, name, and move.

 

I select a folder to import, it interprets names, existing tags and looks it up on musicbrainz.

You can then go through and edit, then just click tag loaded files and it does the rest.

 

Gave me the structure /<artist>/<album>/<artist> - <album> - <song name>.mp3

Edited May 27, 2018 by darkassassin07

[abescalamis 84]

I run all my music through beets before adding it to Emby.

 

http://beets.io

 

I tried every program that was recommended, but beets won the trophy, very powerful indeed, I also learned that there is a program called Headphones that use the beets library, I haven't try that one yet, but will do in the future.

 

Thank you