How to sort out music?

[elL0L]

What is the best way to sort out music? I have about 6000 songs, some are sorted, some are not. What is the best way to sort it with album art automatically? WMP, ITunes?

 

[psichron]

Musicbrainz Picard + album art downloader plugin. Also lets you identify unnamed songs via song signatures.

I like to enable renaming/moving of files. My file format string is:

$if2(%albumartist%,%artist%)/$if(%date%,\($left(%date%,4)\) )%album%$if(%discnumber%,/disc %discnumber%$if(%discsubtitle%, - %discsubtitle%)/,/)$num(%tracknumber%,2) - %artist% - %title%

That basicly renames/moves songs to the directory structure form:
Artist Name/(YYYY) AlbumName/tracknum - artistname - tracktitle
example:
Rammstein/(1995) Herzeleid/02 - Rammstein - Der Meister.mp3

Picard sorts out the tags, renaming/moving and album art. The best music player for windows is Foobar2000.

 

[Techrat]

More recommendations here, http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?p=3483368#post3483368.

Winamp can also do it but might not be the most convenient, don't know if it downloads art.

 

[Rosaudio]

MediaMonkey is pretty good

 

[psichron]

I just checked out MediaMonkey and it seems to handle album art better than Picard. Will test more extensively in the future.

 

[elL0L]

Thanks, will mediamonkey also identify unnamed songs?