Identifying Songs

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Ok I have A LOT of unidentified music in my library (Track 01, Track 02 etc.) and I need a way to identify it quickly and easily.

Is there any program that can retag my music files, and find out the correct names, cause at the moment it's in a bit of a mess??
 
the iphone has this ability (if i remember correctly), but i guess a person can't download the s/w separately...

....but i heard you just stick the phone next to a speaker (or something) and picks it up

i'm gonna try nod's suggestion
 
wizdumb said:
the iphone has this ability (if i remember correctly), but i guess a person can't download the s/w separately...

....but i heard you just stick the phone next to a speaker (or something) and picks it up

i'm gonna try nod's suggestion
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Sony Ericsson Phones use TrackID to do the same thing.

But I guess it's not exactly feasible when you have hundreds of MP3's :(
 
How would they be able to identify what the music is?

when you play it on your music player does it come up track 01 or does it give a name?

If there is no tag how would a program identify it? You more than likely will have to listen and rename then yourself or identify the album and check the track list.
 
Yip - SE TrackID works nicely. It's been available for years on SE ;)

You hold it next to the speaker, record a clip for 10 seconds, it goes to an online database and BAM - all the info you need!

Otherwise .. WMP? Highlight, right click, find album info and you'll get it all as well - provided you at least know an artist/album
 
wizdumb said:
the iphone has this ability (if i remember correctly), but i guess a person can't download the s/w separately...

....but i heard you just stick the phone next to a speaker (or something) and picks it up

i'm gonna try nod's suggestion
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Yup it's called Shazam and is VERY useful! Problem is I don't wanna sit playing every single song I don't know the name to. And it doesn't have the type of music in it's database that I have on my computer.

It's like local stuff, and house, and random things I have never heard./

killadoob said:
How would they be able to identify what the music is?

when you play it on your music player does it come up track 01 or does it give a name?

If there is no tag how would a program identify it? You more than likely will have to listen and rename then yourself or identify the album and check the track list.
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There are no names on some of them, some of them have artist names or album names, but I just want to get some sort of automated thing that does it all for me...

I have used that MusicBrainz tagger before and found it quite inaccurate, but will try it again.
 
Dolby said:
provided you at least know an artist/album
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That's the problem, some of them don't have an artist or an album.

Also, when Windows media player identifies them iTunes does not update automatically, so one has to delete the songs from iTunes and then re-add them, which can get quite tedious.
 
My X-Samsung F480 also had it and when you use it, it saves it in a register, so you don't have to write it down, very nice and helpful.
 
There's a prgoram called MusicIP Mixer which analysed every song in your colletion and I *think* tagged them as well.

The downside? It took me 4 DAYS (24 hours a day!) to analyse 25,000 songs.
 
Dolby said:
There's a prgoram called MusicIP Mixer which analysed every song in your colletion and I *think* tagged them as well.

The downside? It took me 4 DAYS (24 hours a day!) to analyse 25,000 songs.
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Was it accurate though?
 
With 25,000 songs I didn't check each - or anywhere near ;)

However the samples I did check where pretty accurate. What is also cool is that once your collection is analysed it assigns a 'fingerprint' to each.

Then what you do is select one song and it creates a playlist of songs with a similar fingerprints. So if you select James Blunt, your playlist is depressing.
 
Hehe that sound cool. I'm downloading the plugin for iTunes, is that what you used?
 
While we are on the subject, are there any programs that check for names, and report duplicate files? Same artist, title, and similar size (bitrate depending).

I too have lots of badly tagged songs that need renaming and a bit of weeding to remove all the duplicates...
 
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