HEEEAAALP! Except not the Elite Beat Agents. Unless they can retag mp3s through the POWER OF DANCE.

[active_apathy]

I have about 5200 mp3s with metadata in various shades of atrocious, doubly so once iTunes got hold of it, scattered across some eighteen different locations. As I will soon be free from the metadata-devouring tyranny of iTunes (and would very much like my mp3s to be properly tagged and gathered together in one orderly location), this presents an opportunity to start using some better software for managing my music collection.

So! Flist! What software do you use (or would you suggest) for retagging and reorganising thousands of mp3s?

Comments

[deepfishy.livejournal.com]

I have no answers, but am also interested. A musical folksonomy of one?

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

What I'm looking for is more the musical equivalent of bibliographic data; think description, rather than access. Also, collection maintenance.

Genre tags already provide an uncontrolled space for tagging music with whatever the user feels it should be, but it's not a terribly useful part of the format. Alternatively, as an artist-level thing, last.fm has a fairly good folksonomy and a big enough user base for it to actually work.