[SOLVED] 15,000 files to auto-tag? (MMW NewB)
Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2019 8:17 am
Hi All,
I'm new to Media Monkey with about 26,000+ MP3s and a previous iTunes user for about the last 10 years. I've got the latest MMW. I needed to switch due to Apple no longer supporting the iPod Classic models (160GB in my case).
So here's my quandry:
1) All was well in iTunes with my music library, which consists of ripped CDs, some online music purchases, some bootlegs (some legal, some not so much . All of the files are in .MP3 format.
2) I tried another product WALTR2, but that doesn't handle tagging nor playlists
3) In MMW, I've got a ton of tagging work to do. I'd estimate I have about 11,000 MP3s in the "Unknown Artist / Unknown Album" group. I probably have another 4,000 MP3s that have tags which need to be corrected. Doing this manually, I'd have to look up the CD in Amazon and copy / paste each song title for each unknown artist / album, which I could spend weeks doing. The Auto-Tag feature caught my eye.
----->>>> So the $64k question ---> Will Auto-Tagging with maybe MusicBrainz or other Internet Music DB do the trick for me? I assume a music DB gathers as much tag info available, perhaps a filename.mp3, path etc... any other unique mp3 identifiers, does a lookup and corrects the tags at minimum for Artist, Album, Track Name / Number?
-->> Next question, are there basic steps on this board or a knowledge article somebody can point me to PUUUUHHHLEEEEZE ??
Any suggestions, steps, advice on this matter and I'll be eternally grateful!!!!!
Thanks,
Chris S.
I'm new to Media Monkey with about 26,000+ MP3s and a previous iTunes user for about the last 10 years. I've got the latest MMW. I needed to switch due to Apple no longer supporting the iPod Classic models (160GB in my case).
So here's my quandry:
1) All was well in iTunes with my music library, which consists of ripped CDs, some online music purchases, some bootlegs (some legal, some not so much . All of the files are in .MP3 format.
2) I tried another product WALTR2, but that doesn't handle tagging nor playlists
3) In MMW, I've got a ton of tagging work to do. I'd estimate I have about 11,000 MP3s in the "Unknown Artist / Unknown Album" group. I probably have another 4,000 MP3s that have tags which need to be corrected. Doing this manually, I'd have to look up the CD in Amazon and copy / paste each song title for each unknown artist / album, which I could spend weeks doing. The Auto-Tag feature caught my eye.
----->>>> So the $64k question ---> Will Auto-Tagging with maybe MusicBrainz or other Internet Music DB do the trick for me? I assume a music DB gathers as much tag info available, perhaps a filename.mp3, path etc... any other unique mp3 identifiers, does a lookup and corrects the tags at minimum for Artist, Album, Track Name / Number?
-->> Next question, are there basic steps on this board or a knowledge article somebody can point me to PUUUUHHHLEEEEZE ??
Any suggestions, steps, advice on this matter and I'll be eternally grateful!!!!!
Thanks,
Chris S.