How to Organize Your Music

So, I have a pretty extensive CD collection that I’ve amassed over the years, and have had various times when I have ripped them (with different programs, etc.). Now that I have an iPod, I’m finding the need to actually get my stuff organized. Here are the issues I’ve been having:

• Missing or incorrect artwork
• Badly labeled tracks (misspellings mostly)
• Bad ID3 tags
• Track numbers incorrect
• Incorrect filenames
• Inconsistent genres, makes playing music by genre on the iPod funky
• Album Artist not specified, so “Greatest Hits” ends up being one huge album
• Low quality tracks that need to be re-ripped – I at one time thought that 128 kpbs was just fine…
• Tracks that have bad audio (usually ripping a badly-scratched CD will do this) – need to re-buy the CD

Here’s my solution to clean up my library, feel free to use it for yours.
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