Automatic MP3 organisation/renaming (for XBMC)

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First of all apologies. I do realise that this topic actually belongs in the software forum but I suspect many other XBMC users have faced a similar challenge and can offer some advice.

I'm looking for software to automatically organize and rename my MP3 collection because I'm too lazy to do it myself. I've recently bought a HP Microserver running XBMC and it's all kinds of awesome! Obviously XBMC can't do it all and struggles in some cases to correctly identify my very messy MP3 collection which contains a lot of duplicates and incorrectly named files.

What's the best program for the job? Google dishes up so many options and I'd rather go with something recommended on here.
 
Media Monkey does the job for me.

It can search on Amazon, and a few other places you can configure, for albums and download song information and cover art. It saves these directly into the ID3 tags of the MP3.

Once that is done, you can rename all your music files using keywords, like album name, song title, artist etc, at once.

Its $20 for the gold version, but I think it can do the above functionality in the free version as well.
 
baskill said:
Media Monkey does the job for me.

It can search on Amazon, and a few other places you can configure, for albums and download song information and cover art. It saves these directly into the ID3 tags of the MP3.

Once that is done, you can rename all your music files using keywords, like album name, song title, artist etc, at once.

Its $20 for the gold version, but I think it can do the above functionality in the free version as well.
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Thanks for the suggestion! I'll check it out.
 
I agree with evilstebunny on MP3TAG. Although MP3Tag gets the information you want you still have to do it an album at a time for the most accurate results. Shutdown XBMC, go to music folder right click album you want to retreive information for and select the mp3tag option. After you updated your music files and renamed them (program does that for you), start XBMC you will notice the files you updated will now be loading into XBMC in the righthand top corner.

Hope this helpd (MP3tag is free software)
 
would be easy enough to write a script for xbmc to do this as a supplement to the music scraper. The hard part is establishing confidence in accurately identifying the media from the data available
 
I'm keeping my eye on Headphones (https://github.com/rembo10/headphones), its an app similar to Sickbeard/CouchPotato but its not yet finished and the most important part (post processing) isn't implemented yet. Not running it yet but worth while to take a look every now and then to see its progress.

EDIT: Just updated and seems post processing is now enabled. Gonna take a look.
 
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/necro

I have created a thread about this a few months ago, but couldn't find it.

Not a single one of the apps mentioned above works. Strangely, I can copy the files onto my SD card, and use my phone for playback (or bluetooth playback in the car), it identifies the song and downloads the appropriate album art.

So any idea what else are available to rename MP3 files and update their tags?

EDIT: It's almost 100% correct with the album art
 
Slootvreter said:
/necro

I have created a thread about this a few months ago, but couldn't find it.

Not a single one of the apps mentioned above works. Strangely, I can copy the files onto my SD card, and use my phone for playback (or bluetooth playback in the car), it identifies the song and downloads the appropriate album art.

So any idea what else are available to rename MP3 files and update their tags?

EDIT: It's almost 100% correct with the album art
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On Linux, I use the combination of already suggested headphones and beets.

Beets its a command line tool and can be automated with scripts. Be warned it's a bitch to setup, but once setup its a breeze to use.

Or you can try MusicBrainz Picard
 
MusicBrainz Picard is as useless as the rest. It does not even manage to properly identify ANY song out of 3000. Yes, I know it needs an Internet connection.

Sigh. The small things....
 
Slootvreter said:
Are they able to run through a long list of MP3 files, compare the file names/audio signature to an online database, and using that information, rename the file and update the ID3 tag?
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The only 'free' app for that is MusicBrainz Picard.
 
stepper said:
The only 'free' app for that is MusicBrainz Picard.
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It doesn't work, though. But thanks! :)

One would think that such software would be commonplace, but not so. I mean most Android media players almost instantly identify the song and pulls the album cover off the Internet, Shazam takes seconds to identify almost any song, and here one has to jump through hoops to get something to batch tag and rename a folder of various songs. :(
 
Slootvreter said:
Are they able to run through a long list of MP3 files, compare the file names/audio signature to an online database, and using that information, rename the file and update the ID3 tag?
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Yes http://mediago.sony.com/enu/features uses Gracenote and Musicbee uses a combination of Musicbrainz and Gracenote (only for albums). Alternatively upload it to Google Play Music and let it recommend you the correct tags (only a file by file basis though so will take a long time).

EDIT: The new Apple Music update will also allow you to match your music to theirs (with better audio fingerprinting then what they used with iTunes match) and allow you to download that files AFAIK. It's rolling out now so just wait a month or so and start a free Apple Music trial.
 
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Pretty much also keen on an addon within Kodi that will scrape my mp3's. Music Brainz as far i know, never really worked before.
 
Slootvreter said:
It doesn't work, though. But thanks! :)

One would think that such software would be commonplace, but not so. I mean most Android media players almost instantly identify the song and pulls the album cover off the Internet, Shazam takes seconds to identify almost any song, and here one has to jump through hoops to get something to batch tag and rename a folder of various songs. :(
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Icemanbrfc said:
Pretty much also keen on an addon within Kodi that will scrape my mp3's. Music Brainz as far i know, never really worked before.
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Surprised to hear this. I use it several times a a month to catalogue FLAC. The only issue I have ever had is that the server is busy from time to time and it takes a few tries to find a match, like two or three tries.
 
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