MP3 organiser program

[skeletor]

This is my situation.

LOTS of burned CDs with titles like 'MP3s Feb 2002!' and I've no idea what's on them.

There are loads of programs out there that will let you organise a database of the MP3s you have by reading the contents of a CD but when I go to search the database it says something like: Yes you have Happiness Is a Warm Gun, it's on Drive D:

Woopee! Great! I need a program that will let me enter something like 'Name of CD' or something where I can identify each CD (not by a Windows name assigned to the CD, but by what I've written on the CD itself.)

I know I should have been more organised but it's time consuming to write about 100+ song titles on the cover of a CD!!

Any suggestions?

 

[skeletor]

no one?

 

[foggy]

I use Advanced Disk Catalog

 

[compuwiz1]

I don't know, but I file all mine by artist and genre. If I have complete albums I also catagorize those. It is manual and takes some time, but not really bad, if you do it as you go. I have lots of folders in mp3 folder.

 

[Supermercado]

I do all my mp3 organization by "hand." Yeah, it takes a while and is a pain in the neck sometimes. I guess it's a labor of love or something. I have mine organized by artist inside of my music folder. If I have a complete album by an artist, I have a .m3u file for it with a custom toolbar in my taskbar for loading them up quickly. Like I said, it's a labor of love. I like having everything organized on my computer, no matter how long it takes.

 

[Sid59]

i have over 100 discs of data from movies to mp3s to movies and installers for apps.

Here is what i did.

First i made a batch writer.
Here is the contents.

attrib f:\*.* /s > c:\blank.txt

replace the f with your cd/dvd drive that you use to read cds from.

If you haven't already, make sure to label the cd with a marker with something you can remember. All my mp3 cds are labeled, mp3_1 and mp3_2 and so on. Hence, when you run that script, you will get an output into text everything that's on that CD including subdirectories. Go to C: and find blank.txt and name it to what you named the cd.

Now, you should have a bunch of txt files for each cd you read. Stick all of them in a folder and then download and install TextPad. In TEXTPAD hit CTRL + F5 and that brings in a "FIND IN FILES" dialog. Click on browse and make your way to the folder with all the contents. Also, UNCHECK "match whole words" and "match case".

Whatever you search for, it should come up with the txt it's in, which means you know which cd.

I've used this method for a year now and it's easy.