How to Automatically Tag and Organize a Music Library Including Genre PART 1

[@Akkaren79]

For the date to change to just year, it is way better to do this directly in the "file naming" tab. This way your song gets taged with the full date but it will be saved in a folder with just the year. For this do it like: %albumartist%/$if(%date%,$left(%date%,4)) - %album%/$num(%tracknumber%,2) - %title% >> \The Beatles\1965 - Help!\07 - Ticket to Ride.mp3 Ps: I also wanted it to show the track-number in the filename. For this you need it to show the track as ## rather then #, so you can sort the files properly on your pc.

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

Pinned for visibility. Thanks for the tip!

[@makashalo]

awesome addition

[@stefanmoller5953]

I think it should be %albumartist%/$if(%date%,$left(%date%,4) - )%album%/$num(%tracknumber%,2) - %title% I'm not 100% sure about the Syntax of the lookup, but if you dont add the "-" to the if, you will have it in the Filename even when the year is missing: "\The Beatles\- Help!\07 - Ticket to Ride.mp3"

[@antongoykhman]

I have a question. Your format works I even changed artist to album artist but I also want to add Codec and Bitrate to the folder. Example: 2018 - Yugo Kanno - Batman - Ninja (2018) [FLAC] or if the file is MP3, then after year (2018) [MP3, 320] in this format. How to make it so the program understands the difference and applies correct format. Thanks.

[@cl9826]

@@whozz I replaced "date" with "originaldate" in the original script but the preview no longer shows a date in the example now? Is that all we have to do change "date" to "originaldate?

[@faith4jesus]

thank you! I've been trying for a long time to organize our music collection. It's such a mess and I figured I'd have to do it myself one by one. I'm thankful I decided to Google how to do it and came across this video.

[@callahancovington4278]

*PRO TIP:* Look at the very bottom of the app, it shows the progress of the app and what it's currently doing. It's small and just one line but it's there. Wish the app developers would make this info more prominent because the app spends a lot of time doing stuff, so it should be easy for people to see what it's doing. *EVERYTHING IN THIS VIDEO CONDENSED INTO 3 STEPS:* #1: Click CLUSTER, wait until it's done. #2: Click LOOKUP, wait until it's done. #3: Click SCAN, wait until it's done.

[@DarkGamerA]

For people wondering if this works: Yes and it is super fast (did 720 files in 5/8 mins) it also supports many languages likes hindi,japanese and ofc english songs but sometimes it tags them wrong or changes the name to a wrong name// also it doesnt always get the actual album and may just put it in a compilation album (like top 20 of 1990) . but its surely better than nothing.. i gave it 920 files total and it changed 720 of them (out of which 694 where perfect and correct)

[@jasonboudinot3865]

I know this is an old video, But this is amazing! Thank You! Cleaned my library up nice!

[@mitchjohnson4714]

Incredible. Thanks for the video and thanks for the tips. Based on your help, I named mine "%artist%/%date% - %album%/%title% " which I really like.

[@ONEsuzukiTV]

7 years later still very informative just about to name all my songs for plex music, thanks for the video.

[@pisleagmarius]

thanks a lot for this video ...it just saved my 27k mixed tracks (its true that takes me about 2 days) as the program crushed lots of times because I`ve trowed to much in it) but overall is a superb program that makes our life more easyer and colourfull. Thanks one more time ;)

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

You're welcome!

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

Try doing it in smaller chunks. Maybe 1000 at a time.

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

Yea that's strange. Wish I could help, but I've never ran into that problem. If you figure it out post the solution here as it may help someone else out in the future.

[@andreamitchell4758]

mine crashes too and it gets alot of obvious ones wrong too i noticed i saw blur in the video but it got a lot of blur wrong, song 2 for example couldn't figure out billie joel either , or depesche mode

[@dylanemeraldgrey]

Exactly what I was looking for. Big ups! Going to subscribe because I see one or two other videos you made that caught my eye. Hope you'll make some more videos soon about things you find helpful. You are a crystal clear guide, and that is actually fairly rare. If you have the time, maybe throw some videos on any subject (i.e., doesn't just have to be tech) at the wall and see what sticks. You never know what may be a simple no-brainer to you that could be helpful to others. And you never know what could get you 500K hits and more subscribers. For example there is a woodworker dude I follow who is trying to build his channel. He spent 100's of hours making very long videos. Then he made a few minute tip/trick video about how to cut a piece of wood accurately with a square (something most of us know) and it got a huge number of views. Anyway, thanks again. Dealing with a massive music collection is still my holy grail. I just got closer to being able to use it more by getting a little deeper with kodi and yatse. I have kodi on my computer as a server/player, my stereo with two sets of speakers in two rooms is hooked up to my computer. I can access and control the music on the pc remotely with yatse. Can also access the server on all android devices with kodi. This is of course all on a wifi network. Just thought this could be of interest to you or others wasting their time reading comments on youtube ;). - Cheers.

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

Thanks for the encouraging words! I just love tech and automation and whatnot. Maybe I can do something regarding automating tedious PC nonsense. Thanks again!

[@joshuagoodman6630]

Very clear. You are an excellent communicator, and I appreciate your efforts here. Helped me a ton. Thank you!

[@peteohead]

That's an absolutely brilliant tutorial which, along with 'export for mac' has sorted out my music! Thanks a million.

[@Concert_Obscura]

Your an F'ing genius! You just saved me from myself and a serious amount of self imposed stupidity! GREAT tutorial, easy to follow and it just sorted and fixed 112K tunes!

[@dominikdziadziuszko8771]

Dude this is the best tutorial for this on youtube, nice job!!

[@dinoferrara1357]

For last.fm.ng plugin don't use latest 2.0 since it's tagged in github page that it's a version not compatible with Picard 1.3 and 1.4 The v0.15 version is working still

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

Thanks for the tip!

[@artemisawesomegaming3732]

Hallelujah!! Thank you very much My Tech Adventures!!!

[@stickychannel92]

Awesome! I can use this to fix my problems with my MP3 player displaying file names incorrectly. Thanks so much! 😊

[@jamesabrantes3628]

need a little help with the plugin here. i already put Last.fm.ng on the plugin folder but it's not working.

[@pdr938]

I don't see a reply and I also had this problem. I had put the files in the plugins folder under C:/Program Files/Misicbrainz...etc. when it should have been put in C:/Users/"username"/AppData/MusicBrainz/Picard/Plugins

[@dez5]

Great video. Q - When I save albums with Feature artists it create albums folder and in addition many other album folders with Featured. in the plugins menu = tried checking [feat. Artist removed] I'm clueless and need help. thank you.

[@glyn8266]

Saved me a lot of work. Thanks

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

You're welcome

[@skypallman6169]

I know this is an old video, but any chance if I just want it categorized by artist-albums- and just the name of the song? Can I just delete the %/ tags I don't want? Thanks so much for taking your time to show this to everyone. Thanks in advance if you could help me with this ?

[@seanzacharyuy7647]

is there a way to organize the files into folders by genre?

[@Mrdjhappyman]

Yes, make sure each tagged track has a genre tag (if it doesn't, it won't work). Then in the file rename options, simple add the %genre% field to add a genre folder in the structure you want. Dead easy

[@YorchTx]

Hey man thanks so much for the vid I had to rip my entire collection of cds before moving to a dif country and it was a mess Finally we fixed it Thanks again!

[@octagest]

Thanks for the help. You got great taste in music my dude.

[@ThomasFromTN]

"taste" is subjective.

[@makashalo]

Great program. Helped me sort my music. Thanks for the upload

[@ashleysaunby2002]

Thanks for the video, very good and well explained, I never even considered a piece of software like this would exist but it is amazing. Being a few years old is this software still worth using or is there other / better software to do the same thing? Is there an advantage of organising albums by year or is this just a personal preference? Thanks again.

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

Definitely still worth using. It works the exact same even this many years later. I still haven't found any other free way to do this. Album by year is just personal preference 🙂

[@Retrocowboy100]

Great job I love this program. I had some songs that this program didn't identify the genre so i'm trying install the plugin last.fm.ng but I have put the same version of script that you used in your video in the plugin folder (just like on your video) and I restarted musicbrainz picard and it still doesn't add the plugin into the plugins list? Not sure what to do. I noticed that there is a new plugin already in the list called wikidate - genre is this something new? Should I use that instead of the last.fm.ng?? If so how should I set my options? thanks.

[@WaIIaby]

I have the same problem..

[@vyper883]

Great tutorial! Been contemplating for years cleaning up my library. Just a question: Newer versions of Picard do not have the "Use Folksonomy tags as genre". Do we need a work- around? Or does it matter? Thanks!

[@ravi0nilne]

It has been moved down to a the Genre node in the tree. Check under MetaData>Genres.

[@mezmriz2012]

How does this work with remixes and original music? will it try to change it to the original artist name?

[@KrimelDel]

You are a legend. Thank you so much.

[@PiaVogel]

Great video ... but i have one area that needs help. followed your process and there was an album with Various Artists as the tag and all the songs were split into folders by the individual name. How do i change that default so that Various Artists becomes the Album name?

[@neux64]

I'm running into the same issue, which is why I'm not really in favor of using MusicBrainz at the moment. For example they tagged "Pantera - Walk" as a Various Artist from some random compilation album called "Rock," so that's rather inconvenient. In my library I am talking 1600+ tracks, and 300 of these are being tagged as "Various Artists." Just as annoying as reorganizing them manually.

[@bennguyen1313]

This looks great! I've been trying to find Windows software that will automatically go thru a folder and rename the music files with the artist / song name. Uploading it one by one to Shazam/AudioTag/Midomi/Musixmatch is just painful! (Plus, I don't have iOS so can't use SongKong or Tunatic). Once the files have been renamed (and re-ID3 tagged), do you recommend any software that can then transcode them to be of a consistent format (ex. 128kbps 44.1khz mp3)?

[@michaeljames3303]

thank you so much for this tutorial

[@teacherken3635]

Amazing. Thank you so much

[@TheJarJarKinks]

Clear instructions - and thanks for that - but I'm wondering *why* we do $left(%date%,4) to pull out a track's year. Is it because, from the left, time is saved as (hour: minute) (day)/(month)/(year) or is there some more technical answer?

[@ericwalker9083]

OK, well is there a version of Picard Last.fm.ng Plugin for picard v. 2.2.1? I can get them listed in the plugins but they have an "x" under the install column, please advise

[@mfundomanzini]

I have this same issue but I just skipped over and proceeded

[@abeibrahim5846]

Hi again, Another thing that got me wondering; if I elected to move files when I press [Save], say I did a second time if my files were moved, why do I get a second file with a "... (1)"In the end; one would think that, once the file has moved, the Tool would not find it and issue an error event in the log. Please advise, Thanks!

[@mar2529]

HELP! None of my music is being matched and unfortunately all my tracks just go to a "unclustered files" folder which cannot be Looked up :( any advice?

[@togorilaki]

Hi man and thanks for the video. Do you have any idea on how to avoid having Picard create separate folders when a "feat. artist" is part of the artist? Example: I have an album by Kraak & Smaak and all of the songs are featuring someone. So with your naming method it ends up creating a new folder for every "artist" although it's one album. Any ideas on how to solve this without though messing with the hierarchy you suggest (artist-year-album). Thanks!

[@togorilaki]

nevermind. I just change artitst to albumartist

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

Right on :-)

[@abeibrahim5846]

Hi, Thank you for the video - Up to the point before you said "Click Save" I understood, once the Save button is clicked, I was expecting the list on the right to decrease one-by-one as they move, otherwise how do one know when it's done? these little things are missing from the tool - I have gone through the full operations, but never knew when it is done for sure; I saved again to ensure I did not forget and ended up with duplicates.... Please advise, Thanks!

Muchas gracias por este video Todo funciono a la perfección; aunque hay unas pequeñas variaciones debido a las actualizaciones del programa (algunas opciones un poquito diferentes); pero nada del otro mundo. Por otro lado, el programa es muy bueno. BUENÍSIMO en realidad. Es increíble lo fácil y rápido que nos permite organizar TODA nuestra librería de archivos (MP3, FLAC, etc.) completando toda la información de los archivos, incluyendo la caratula (cover) de los discos. Me he tomado la libertad de modificar un poco el “Nombrado de los archivos” para en vez de crear una carpeta para el año y otra para el nombre del disco ponga estos dos títulos juntos; por ejemplo: Escritorio/Musica/Enigma/2003 - Voyageur En vez de: Escritorio/Musica/Enigma/2003/Voyageur Nombrar archivos de esta forma: %artist%/%date% - %album%/%artist% - %title% Un fuerte abrazo y bendiciones Lima, Perú 2019/04/15

[@ITDemolition]

Great stuff, thank you!

[@ikigaiikigai6657]

I have a question there are some songs that the Genre is not appear it because Musicbrainz doesn't find it how can it make it appear even on the bottom box information if it is empty?

[@mthedu]

I'm scanning the lookup for my library of 1100 songs atm. Currently at 18 hours and increasing. Haha. Oh, at 22 hours by the time I got this far in the comment. Looks like I'll be finishing this video tomorrow or maybe even later this week!

[@gant34]

The video is great and very helpful. One question my Genre is showing up in the original values on the bottom left but are not showing up for the new value on the bottom right. Did I miss a step or a script. if I missed a script where do I place it.

[@margaretbennett3480]

I want mine to be organized by genre, artist, year album - how should the file naming look like please?

[@rockdathouse4286]

Thank you for a very helpful video, although i got a question concerning genre..Say i wanna split my folders like this : Genre>Artist>Tracks. Is there a way to do that ? Or does it strictly have to be the way you did it ?(Artists>Year>Album>Tracks)..I imagine that removing year+album from the organization would be easy but can Genre act as a location folder or just as additional info? Thanks in advance

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

You can use the %genre% tag

[@rockdathouse4286]

Oh !! that's possible ? Awesome then.also thanks for the fast reply . cheers ;)

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

Cheers :-)

[@DanFlint]

So in the file naming option this is the default: $if2(%albumartist%,%artist%)/ $if(%albumartist%,%album%/,) $if($gt(%totaldiscs%,1),%discnumber%-,)$if($and(%albumartist%,%tracknumber%),$num(%tracknumber%,2) ,)$if(%_multiartist%,%artist% - ,)%title% Should that be deleted or should your file naming go before that? Thanx for the video explaining this.

[@DanFlint]

I followed the orig file name but it left out the artist name in the file name. I'm going to go with %albumartist%/$if(%date%,$left(%date%,4) - )%album%/$num(%tracknumber%,2) - %artist% - %title% can I just rerun or do I have to seperate the files again and do this process from step 1?

[@guillaumevanrijckeghem7840]

I'm gonna put this to the test. Would it take 1TB of mostly alternative music? It includes mp3, wav, and FLAC files. However I'm not sure if it covers all the tag information on wav files. (I've had problems with that in the past)

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

Can only know by giving it a try. Try on a small sample and see how it goes. Let us know if it works!

[@deedubbs4412]

Not likely, program runs into stability issues when pointed at large volumes.

[@DINU_R]

When we click cluster. Can we choose to create the folders based on the Genres ?

[@mischiefminded]

I'm wanting to remove the track numbers entirely. I have no need for them but somehow based on the different tag lookups/scans/websearch modes, it reacts differently for some reason. Sometimes I still get track numbers regardless of me configuring for no track numbers in the file naming section.

[@DJMagicMiMER]

Took awhile to figure out the plugin, after uninstalling and reinstalling picard three or four times because the plugin just wouldn't work, after the fourth times reinstalling it to a new folder. What get me is why does it retain my information after uninstalling it my information remain? So where else is the information being saved I've check my documents, and other location but can't find it. I already know where the path is just not being able to locate the files somewhere else. That's the bizarre part.

[@AdamF1972]

Hi there, I tried this guide with some unassigned music files I have on my PC. I have followed your advice in the video to gsin the correct tagging. When I now look for the songs in iTunes, the files are showing as missing and I have to locate them in the folder you advised to create in the desktop. I chose the find files option in Itunes and it doesn't find any of them, even though I have navigated itunes to the new folder. Any idea of why this might be?Thanks in advance, Ad

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

Sorry I don't use iTunes so I'm not really sure :-(. Maybe someone else can help?

[@420]

Trying this software out to remove brackets from my library. On my first run there were like 300 files missing from the counter when all was said and done, which was frightening to see. Going to just erase the folder and reattempt to see if it messes up. Should be like 2100 files, not 1800 at the end. Not sure how it could've happened the first time.

[@SteaksAndBourbon]

Is this app good for locating and deleting duplicate song files? I've got like 1200 songs on my computer and some of them have four different copies, some have had the metadata changed at some point and I'm still coming across songs titled wrong. Ex seven seas of rye by Queen is called don't stop me now.

[@ultraviolet.catastrophe]

Well, that depends. Are the two songs EXACTLY the same from start to finish when you play them?

[@SteaksAndBourbon]

@@ultraviolet.catastrophe yup, like they are literally the same song that's been duplicated at some point.

[@ultraviolet.catastrophe]

@@SteaksAndBourbon Awesome. What operating system are you on? Windows? Mac OS X? Linux?

[@SteaksAndBourbon]

@@ultraviolet.catastrophe windows

[@ultraviolet.catastrophe]

@@SteaksAndBourbon ​ @Steaks and Bourbon Okay. Try these instructions: 1. Download and install this program: www.alldup.info/download/AllDupSetup.exe 2. Open the program, click on "Source Folders" then "Add folder". 3. In the new window that appears, select the drive(s) or folder(s) where your music is located then click OK at the bottom. 4. Now click on "Search Method". Right below "Find duplicate files based on the basis of their properties", only mark "File content". The others should remain unchecked. 5. Still on the same window, to the right you will see a "File Content" heading. Right below it, click on the drop-down box and select "SHA-2 (512- Bit)". 6. At the very top of the program, click on "Start Search". It will start looking for duplicates while showing progress. Wait till it finishes. 7. Once done, a new window will appear with the duplicate files grouped together. 8. At the very top of the program, just above the icons, find and click on "Select". 9. Click on "Select all files except the first file". 10. At the top of the program, click the first icon with a red X. 11. In the new window that appears, under "What action is to be performed?" select "Move files to the Windows Recycle Bin" then click OK at the bottom. 12. A pop-up window will appear. Click "Yes". The program will now remove all duplicates but don't worry, you'll still be left with one copy of each file. For instance, if files A, B, and C are all the same, it will delete B and C while leaving file A untouched! 13. Once the program finishes working, click "Close" on the new window that appears. All done! 14. Manually confirm if the program solved your problem.

[@markreynolds1415]

This video has been really helpful. I see that there is a Mood tag and it shows on the MusicBrainz results. Unfortunately, the Mood tag isn't saved. Any ideas on how to save Mood? tx

[@DaxxeY]

Is there any way so the filenames can get automatically renamed into 01- 02- 03- in the beginning depending on the track # ? In other words: 01-artist-songtitle.mp3 02-artist-songtitle.mp3 03-artist-songtitle.mp3 e.tc

[@ferrollg]

Works great. Thanks

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

Glad to hear it!

[@XDSDDLord]

Thanks. I have a TB of music, and I've been trying to find a better way than manually doing it. I had this MP3 tagging program (even though nearly all my library is flac) but there was a lot of manual work there sa well.

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

Hope it helps! Let me know if you have questions. Will try to reply timely this time.

[@andrewdytyniak1529]

Took my time to follow your steps one-by-one but when I got to point of dragging files over to MB there was no heading UNMATCHED only UNCLUSTERED, srolled to bottom of the list and there was the heading CLUSTER (0). Most songs automatically were tagged but the few that were not I could not highlight them and click CLUSTER, which I tried but nothing happened. So I did one by one, highlighted song and clicked LOOKUP. Most were found but a few remained. Did the same for these but clicked SCAN however none were tagged. Lastly, I did do the add-on for genre but when I went to put a check mark where you recommened , can't recall the description that followed check mark, there was nothing like in your video. Maybe i have a later version of MB and it automatically does this when you add and add-on? Also, add-on window doesn't look like the one in your video but I think the genre worked cause i checked a few songs and it was labeled. Any advise or comment about the "UNCLUSTERED" heading vs the UNCLUSTERED heading???

[@steves7896]

Is there any way to do this offline? My music files (tens of thousands) are stored and being organized on a laptop that has no internet connection (nor a hotspot capability). But I can download things through my phone. I can transfer the Picard to my laptop from my phone. I would like to be able to somehow get the metadata, transfer it too to my laptop and have the Picard populate the music files. Is this possible?

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

So in the first step it will attempt to populate the tag data using information already locally stored in the tracks. You won't be able to use the more advanced fingerprinting, but it should still work for many of the tracks. Give it a test, and report back if it works for you because that's very interesting dilemma.

[@steves7896]

@@RealMyTechAdventures Thank you, sounds encouraging. I'll let you know how it goes.

[@John_Doe.1.]

When I try to set number of genres to 1 and click make it so, the thing seems to just not care and put however many genres it wants anyway. Any fixes for this?

[@vugarumudov3751]

thanks for video . but its automatically numbering songs. i dont need it. can you help me?

[@WJF388]

Thanks for your demonstration. this app is great and is free. Seriously Wondershare's TidyMyMusic is a major scam. TidyMyMusic not only charges $40 but also messes up MP3 files that were actually IDed correctly. Justin Timberlake's Can't Stop the Feeling becomes Faith by Calvin Harris under Wondershare's scam app.

[@CapuletPoeChannel]

What is the best way to set the renaming artists such as The Who as Who, The?

[@lawrence1md]

I’ve got 1tb of music and really want to try this. Artist and song title is my goal. I wonder what amount of time it will take?

[@Messihaz]

Depends on your computer specs, my 600gb library took half a day

[@margaretbennett3480]

Hi is there a way to find duplicate files on your music files?

[@NEWFSTAH]

Waaaaaaaait a sec!!! Am I understanding that this program will change the actual file name in iTunes with the setup you showed in the beginning?

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

That's correct. It applies meta data that iTunes will read.

[@engranaeducacion1805]

Hey bro! nice video, thanks alot. The only thing that bugs me now is the number that some tracks have. Like eg: 15 Love me tender... how can I delete the numbers in bulk? Thanks

[@defski]

Bulk rename utility

[@shaggar]

really helpful video, thanks

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

No problem! Please share it with your friends. You'll be the talk of the town ;-)

[@ScottPSilver]

Yo, after completing the script setup and hitting make it so, the window reverts to file Naming and won't close/ apply settings until I set Name files like this back to default. I copied and pasted and tried typing it out. Please advise!

[@ScottPSilver]

You have a vary small "-" in the destination directory: I had to give it a location.

[@lalolead]

great video, would you know how to add song lyrics with this app? there is a plug in Musixmatch Lyrics that I installed and checked but don't know if there is another setting I should enable.

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

I'm not sure but I will look into. That sounds awesome actually!

[@sinith57]

So what happens when it won't cluster. I click it and nothing happens. Clustering over 40 thousand tracks. To many for it?

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

You may have to do them in chunks. Maybe 10,000 at a time?

[@308snipa]

do you have a plugin for lyrics?

[@Drainos2006]

Music Brainz is good, but it is only part of the solution. The only music player that had a proper search engine to go with it was musosis. Public Enemy.. didn't see the correct production or vocalist credits there. At the end of the day you want to type an "Artist" and get all the songs they did vocals on or production on. Barcode, catlog # etc.. over the top.

[@mischiefminded]

Great vid! Will this get me a folder/file naming convention of albumartist - album dateyear/artist - title? %albumartist% - %album% $if(%date%,$left(%date%,4))/%artist% - %title% . Thanks!

[@mischiefminded]

I guess nobody is paying atttention to these comments since 2 years old. Well this did work for me with the exception of inconsistency of my wanting to remove the track numbers entirely. I have no need for them but somehow based on the different tag lookups/scans/websearch modes, it reacts differently for some reason. Sometimes I still get track numbers regardless of me configuring for no track numbers in the file naming section.

[@DreiSkins101]

NOTE: THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY MUSIC TAGGING PROGRAMS Can someone please please PLEASE HELP ME OUT..... Why is it that when I back up my music files from iTunes to another drive some files lose their tag info? I have 8,800 songs and 1,500 of them lose Artist,Album & Genre When saving to another drive. I NEED HELP. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.

[@DethronedCrown]

So I am pretty sure I followed all the instructions properly but when I get to the end and go save it doesn't actually change the tags? It picks them all up in the program and everything looks fine and it put them in the folders "organized music - artist - album" and it remains the file name to "artist - song name", so that's all good, but all the tags remain unchanged. Don't know where I've gone wrong.

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

I'm not sure. Would need more info. Were you ever able to get it situated?

[@djdrow9369]

muchas gracias ,como tu metodo aprendi a ordenar mejor la musica , saludos desde chile

[@electrifyny]

I have been getting the wrong cover art. What do you recommend I do to get the correct ones?

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

Not 100% sure, but does this help? wiki.musicbrainz.org/How_to_Add_Cover_Art

[@ejojo13]

@ Joseph, I've been downloading, ripping, & organizing my own music library for the last 12 yrs & still probably have another 5-10 more to go I think, LoL. I somewhat planned a little ahead before taking on this project in terms of organization & what not... I save all my music in only 2 ways, either FLaC [most favorites] or MP3 VBR V0 [all others]. Early on, most of my albums or tracks did not have any artwork covers/images associated with them as it did not bother me at that point until just a couple of weeks ago when I realized I should just go ahead & fix that since I'll be using them more on portable players in the future. I'm doing it manually at this time as I am adding more than just the front artwork... I'm also adding the back, the disc, an icon, plus the artist/band photos as well (= Foobar2000 is what I've been using to do all this & I get most of my pics from Discog . com where I've been already using to look up every artist/band's discography - just a whole bunch of clicking >[=]

[@jmccarthy56]

I am following these instructions, but I get stuck. I place the API key, but when i say make it so, I get an error - please select a valid fpcalc executable. I've looked in forums but can't find anything.

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

You need to download fpcalc and then direct musicbrainz to the .exe file. The link is in the description.

[@jimmymahone5420]

Have just archived most of my CD collection. Found a number of albums had no metadata recorded, and have stumbled around the Internet looking for a remedy. While this appears to be a fine video, it reminds me (with all respect intended) of "drinking from a firehose." Also repeatedly refers to "my last video" without identifying that video. Hopefully, I'll find a conceptual overview of how to attack my problems that walks me through a correction process before diving into all of this technical detail. Cheers, y'all.

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

Last video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mKfccqV5r81gjbM

[@stephmi6045]

Should you still use the option "keep files organized" under iTunes settings?

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

Not sure. Don't use iTunes. Maybe someone else can help.

[@mikey73]

there was an error in your demonstration, you eneded up with 2 instances of 'You oughta know' in the Jagged Little Pill folder resulting in track number 2 appearing twice

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

Thanks. Think I had 2 of the same track in there.

[@adrgaming4179]

Holy shit this is sick.

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

Enjoy!

[@valentineculinary]

Great Video, I did all that you showed and then dragged the folder into a thumb drive. My only problem is that my car wont recognise the drive?. is there a setting that I am missing?

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

Hmm I'm not sure. Don't quote me on this, but it probably needs to be formatted as FAT32, and perhaps it's formatted as NTSF or something else.

[@andrewpaul1207]

what if i want the folder structure to be Artist/ [year] album title / tracks

[@mitchjohnson4714]

That's what I wanted. I think this will work for you: %artist%/[%date%] %album%/%title%

[@BodhiKurnigKu]

Thanks for everything dude very successful..

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

Awesome! Glad to hear it :-)

[@benotsintsadze]

what if a file has multiple artists? how do you put them under the artist of my choice?

[@markanderson6716]

A couple of comments (questions): 1) last.fm.ng seems to either have a memory leak or it doesn't free up memory that it has used. MB normally runs by using around 250MB to 500MB. When I use last.fm.ng the memory used by MB increases to almost 2GB before it hangs / crashes. Has anybody experienced this also? I am not flooding MB with a lot of .mp3s, maybe 15-20 artists at a time and a lot of the artist folders have only one or two files each. 2) Your tagging time seemed really quick. I have my files on a NAS (Synology) and I don't have high speed cable or FIOS, just a 3mb DSL. Tagging takes a lot longer than your video. I guess using a NAS and also DSL slows my tagging time. Also, the last.fm.plugin queries a lot of information from the cloud and impacts performance (per viewing the real time debug log). 3) If I run MB as an administrator, it doesn't see my mapped drive to my NAS. Also, MB (or Windows Explorer) won't let me drag and drop folders into MB (?). 4) I have previously tagged files (probably incorrectly) and MB wants to take an album that I have ripped and scatter it into different folders instead of an original folder that mirrors the CD that I ripped. Any idea what I am doing wrong? 5) Thanks for the video.

[@anthonycristiano]

But how do you get the tag Title to name the file using for ex: 01 - song instead of just Song

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

%tracknumber% - %title%

[@rogeraeg]

Really Thank you Bro.... Muchas Gracias.

[@mitchjohnson4714]

Did it properly number "Its takes a nation of millions"?

[@RDL_1978]

Its possible to have a picture album with data

[@TreeOfLifeFestivalofficial]

works also for WAV. audio files?

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

Yes I believe it does.

[@bewegt]

I don't get it... we can see in the windows explorer at the beginning that these files were tagged already before so where ist the clue?

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

They're not all tagged correctly which is typical of a music library.

[@juancastro6056]

I was wondering does it have an algorithm to detect the Key of songs?

[@Hailexx]

I suggest trying out Tunebat to find that information

[@LaserChair]

so you need the last.fm plugin in order to tag genres?

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

Yep.

[@LaserChair]

Right, I'll get it. I'm working on my library as we speak. What to do If it matches a track with a wrong album(different artist)?? So far I have typed every single tag again but I am unable to revert the album cover back to original.

[@BacoKO]

no, in the latest version, it doesnt work with that pluging

[@djstylistictv]

How can you use this and it will only tag the original Year of the song rather the year of the re-release?

[@RealMyTechAdventures]

Looking into it... Will report back if/when I figure that out.

[@azaszazaaz4070]

It's a pretty good program, but how can I get also the genre?

[@nokmuay1970]

Hey Great Video. Im having a hard time figuring out how to get the original date the song/track was released. I am using Last.fm.plus. I read the %original year% isnt working. here is my string. any advice please??? %artist%/%date%/%originaldate%/%decade%/%title% - %artist%

[@djstylistictv]

Wondering the same?

[@nokmuay1970]

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