I’ve got Jukebox, which came with the computer. It is no longer supported by anyone, it seems. It won’t let me burn CDs, tellng me I need the license. Even though these are either ripped from CDs or purchased from BearShare or Amazon. It seems the only things it will allow me to burn are the tunes I’ve grabbed from my PC games.
Also, I have an old 2GB iPod with a gazillion tunes on it. The battery runs for less than an hour. It is useless. But I’ve got 2GB of music trapped in it.
Is there a program out there that will help me? An organizing, doesn’t care what form the music is in, can impose order on chaos super music program?
Or some hints on how to manage the madness?
Try Media Monkey. It’s a free download, and in the basic version can do all sorts of neat things with your files. I have used it to:
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[li]standardize file names to the same format[/li][li]find album art[/li][li]find and remove duplicate files (by name and content)[/li][li]organize and alphabetize tracks[/li][li]sort tracks by genre[/li][li]create custom playlists and burn to CD[/li][li]rip audio CDs[/li][li]convert most standard audio formats to another standard format (MP3s, M4A, OGG, FLAC and WMA files etc.)[/li][/ul]
I think it’s great, and there’s very little it hasn’t been able to help me do. I liked it so much I paid for the Gold version, but the free standard will be awesome for getting your music library in order. I have something like 10,000 tracks on my hard drive, but it’s great for much larger or smaller libraries.
=D It does take a little bit of tweaking at the outset, but once you get everything set up to do things the way you like, you can just let it go and go off and take a nap.
It did wonders for me, I combined not only my own mp3 collection, but those of 2 other friends who are not so obsessive about neatness in their files, to say the least. Also threw in about 200 ripped CDs, and BOOM! After a couple of days I had the perfect library!
This program is now finding files I downloaded with, um, not the most legal of methods many years ago that I’d totally forgot about!
And yeah, it’s gonna take more than a few hours to identify and tag the metric buttload of music that I didn’t even know I had but if this works out well, I may go Gold just to show my appreciation.
If this works out as well as it looks like it might, I’ll go ahead and go Gold just to pay for my happiness.