Ultimate Track Organization

[Nosferatu]

Go through everything by hand.

Fix ID3 tags, keep highest bitrates, delete duplicates etc...

I'm anal retentive so I have to do it that way.

I do it once or twice a year.

I always thought this was the only way...

[Bassline Brine]

I do it manually myself.

A buddy of mine runs his main computer through Linux (red hat, the company he works for). He has a bunch of scripts that basically go through and automatically clean up the filename (takes the random numbers off the beginning of the filename, and re-arranges it so it's artist - track using _ and + so their are no spaces). I really like his system, and it works very quick for him for a lot of tracks.

He still has to manually go through and make sure that the actual names and such are CORRECT. If something is wrong to begin with, it can't fix that. But I keep telling him he should compile it into a program and market it, even open-source.

But until that day, nothing really beats the precision of doing it manually.

[ColemanT]

WOW! Thanks! I didn't think I had actually posted this question, but I guess I hit send!

Just got back from a work trip so I'll se what works best and post back.

[fullenglishpint]

I'm building myself up to doing a massive purge of my music collection and getting rid of as much of the crap as I can. It's 50GB atm, and it's not the size that's the problem but the frequency of musical turds that have turned up in compilation albums!