How to manage all this music???

[sitnet]

Ok so on Thursday I finally got a portable HDD, a Seagate Free agent Desk 1TB.

So then I started collecting music, and I have 23'339 mp3's (80GB) now. The problems is that I want a piece of software with which I can properly manage, rename (incl ID3 tags), find duplicates, play it etc with. I looked at Winamp but it doesn't do everything I want.

So is there a software like this. I don't mind using a separate software for finding duplicates.

Thanx :)

[feo]

As far a player goes, I'd say go for foobar2000, it takes a bit of getting used to but it's very lightweight and super customizable. AFAIK, foobar also has tagging capabilities.

[sitnet]

As far a player goes, I'd say go for foobar2000, it takes a bit of getting used to but it's very lightweight and super customizable. AFAIK, foobar also has tagging capabilities.

Ok thanx, will have a look at it.

@All

I'm checking out mediamonkey now, it looks like it suits my needs.

[diabolus]

Mediamonkey is pretty good. If you want to consider doing "mass automatic tagging" [at your own risk] look at something like this Musicbrainz: http://musicbrainz.org/doc/PicardTagger

It basically go looks up tag details [based on filenames etc] on a few online dbs and retag.

At the moment though i have the Zune Software [www.zune.net , primarily because i have a Zune and need it to sync, but i must say it works quite well as it also does online lookups and tagging...and it does the podcast+videos thing too.

I guess i use Zune now primarily because of the online interaction, it does the whole "based on whatever you're listening, we recommend you check out this:" thing...almost like Pandora .

[Sting]

Wait til you fill a 640Gb HDD with mp3s...

[kwaggawerner]

You can not get a better application than MediaMonkey... It's been specifically designed for large music collections. www.mediamonkey.com

[Aqua_lung]

itunes 64bit

[TowerGuru]

iTunes can do that. If all the metadata is correct it will organise them nice and neatly into folders by artist and album. Which will enable you to easily see the no name brands. You can also view duplicate files as well. Quick and easy to add or edit id3 tags as well

[mic_y]

another interesting alternative (although a bit old-school and manual) is MP3BookHelper. The project is kinda dead on Sourceforge though, and has not been updated in a while. Also, it only works with MP3's, but I still like it.

[Freshy-ZN]

+1 for MediaMonkey