Top 10 Free Programs to make the most out of your MP3 Collection

gary4gar · 19-02-2008, 07:53 PM

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Ok, you’ve got loads of music on your computer - but is that all cluttered, unorganized, unmanaged and simply not easy to access? May be you need to do something. Literally hundreds of free software let you play, organize, burn and do lots more with your digital MP3 music collection. Have a well tagged, sortable music collection that you can be proud of!

Here comes a carefully chosen list of free programs that might help you squeeze the best out of your MP3 collection.

ax3 · 20-02-2008, 04:26 PM

nice 1 .......

ThinkFree · 20-02-2008, 04:34 PM

Good

New · 22-02-2008, 11:42 AM

Awesome..

Orange Juice · 24-02-2008, 12:28 PM

sucks

**kalpik** · 24-02-2008, 12:57 PM

^^ I warned you! Now face the consequences.. Banned for a week.

Orange Juice 2 · 24-02-2008, 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by kalpik

^^ I warned you! Now face the consequences.. Banned for a week.

Ok. But there are about 321312423142342312312 oranges in this planet. How many can you ban???

**kalpik** · 24-02-2008, 03:08 PM

All of them?

Gigacore · 24-02-2008, 05:13 PM

Now i can manage my 12 GB mp3 easily

Zeeshan Quireshi · 24-02-2008, 05:47 PM

No Offence but MediaMonkey(mentioned in blog post) is one of the crappiest softwares i've ever used .

The User-Interface totally sucks in terms of usability and you can't even properly browse the library without getting irritated .

They seriously need to work on the UI and Ease-of-use department .

The_Devil_Himself · 24-02-2008, 06:30 PM

^^have you used the latest one?It has pretty cool GUI.The main feature of media monkey in the no. of tools it packs and automatic tagging of songs in metadata.

of course it your collection consists of mainly untagged or improperly tagged songs then its very difficult to browse.

**topgear** · 24-02-2008, 07:39 PM

Cool...

Zeeshan Quireshi · 24-02-2008, 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by The_Devil_Himself

^^have you used the latest one?It has pretty cool GUI.The main feature of media monkey in the no. of tools it packs and automatic tagging of songs in metadata.

of course it your collection consists of mainly untagged or improperly tagged songs then its very difficult to browse.

Each and every file in my Collection is Tagged(+Album Art) , but still the Library Browsing of MediaMonkey has a lot of hiccups and leaves a lot to be desired .

Like for example when you wanna browse by album , you double-click on album-name , then rather than displaying the tracks in the album , it just starts playnig the whole album , and you actually have to change to track-view and find the song all over again to view tracks in that album.

Compare this to WMP 11 , it shows album art-covers , when you click on album , it shows tracks .

Similarly , in Artist view , in WMP 11 you click on artist it shows all albums by that artist along with tracks .

In mediamonkey , in artist view , it just sorts-by artist rather than have a custom-view for it .

Overall feel of Mediamonkey is very clinky .

redhat · 24-02-2008, 08:39 PM

^^+1
And also, it does not support featuring artists...
Adds a whole lot of artists to my collection?
Is there any software that supports feat. artists??

Zeeshan Quireshi · 24-02-2008, 08:51 PM

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Originally Posted by redhat

^^+1
And also, it does not support featuring artists...
Adds a whole lot of artists to my collection?
Is there any software that supports feat. artists??

There's an "Album Artist" and "Artist" tag , you can use Album Artist to arrange songs by album and you can fill Artist field with all artists for a particular song .

This setup Works Perfectly fine in WMP 11 and iTunes and Amarok .

Tech.Masti · 24-02-2008, 11:15 PM

i like J river Media jukebox, but its quite heavy on my machine

shankar_ganesh · 28-02-2008, 09:08 PM

thanks for linking to my blog post guys!

blueshift · 28-02-2008, 09:18 PM

Very good compilation shankar_ganesh.
Thanks.

ajayritik · 28-02-2008, 11:44 PM

I know I'm asking a wrong question here but still I Would like to know which software is best to play MP3 songs? Mostly I use Winamp. What about others like iTunes, Windows Media player etc?

Zeeshan Quireshi · 29-02-2008, 09:51 AM

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Originally Posted by ajayritik

I know I'm asking a wrong question here but still I Would like to know which software is best to play MP3 songs? Mostly I use Winamp. What about others like iTunes, Windows Media player etc?

Windows media Player 11

**kalpik** · 29-02-2008, 10:29 AM

Zeeshan, I was looking for a replaygain plugin for media player. Do you know where to get it?

infra_red_dude · 29-02-2008, 10:34 AM

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Originally Posted by ajayritik

I know I'm asking a wrong question here but still I Would like to know which software is best to play MP3 songs? Mostly I use Winamp. What about others like iTunes, Windows Media player etc?

If you are not bothered much about album art and stuff, Winamp 2.x with a good DSP plugin is the best player out there and also the lightest!

ray|raven · 29-02-2008, 10:36 AM

Foobar is lighter than Winamp 2 IMO.
And got loads of features.

Zeeshan Quireshi · 29-02-2008, 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by kalpik

Zeeshan, I was looking for a replaygain plugin for media player. Do you know where to get it?

I don't think WMP 11 supports the ReplayGain tag coz as it is , it has automatic volume levelling .

Although you can use MP3Gain to level all your MP3's .

**kalpik** · 29-02-2008, 10:56 AM

I know that.. I dont want to apply replygain, as that makes my songs sound very low on my phone.. Volume leveling aint that good.. Anyway.. Lets hope they come out with a plugin soon

ray|raven · 29-02-2008, 10:57 AM

Why not switch to another player?

**kalpik** · 29-02-2008, 11:02 AM

I am using winamp/foobar right now

Was just looking for a replaygain plugin for WMP11 that's why i asked.

ajayritik · 29-02-2008, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by infra_red_dude

If you are not bothered much about album art and stuff, Winamp 2.x with a good DSP plugin is the best player out there and also the lightest!

My friend had suggested me to go for Winamp 2.9 Version he told me that the newer ones or the ones after it are not so good. Is it true? I have always used Winamp but wanted to see if there is something better than it. What is DSP Plugin? What's the purpose for it?

redhat · 01-03-2008, 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Zeeshan Quireshi

There's an "Album Artist" and "Artist" tag , you can use Album Artist to arrange songs by album and you can fill Artist field with all artists for a particular song .

This setup Works Perfectly fine in WMP 11 and iTunes and Amarok .

yup, I use that in WMP11 n iTunes but this feature aint there in MediaMonkey
Correct me if Im wrong...