iPodified
picked up a 20 gig iPod this weekend at the Grove (weird place during the week...frightening on the weekend). It's pretty life changing to have your entire mp3 collection (2138 songs, 6.7 days, 11.41 gigs) with you at all times.
I had to go through and rename my ID3 tags (iTunes and iPod don't sort by filename, they only look at ID tags). Needless to say, Apple hasn't made it terribly easy to do this. While those who may have ripped or purchased their songs from iTunes, the rest of us have various mp3's, from various sources with various ID info. What's interesting to me is whether or not Apple witheld functionality for iTunes for efficiently renamnig mp3's in an effort to make it harder to sort and use illegally download files...it seems doubtful, but ya never know (this can't be the first time this has been posited..)
If you are stuck with hand renaming track numbers, titles, etc. with the 'Get Info' function in iTunes, here's a great shareware app for doing it much more efficiently. Did my whole collection in 4 hrs. While there may be apps that utilize CD databases, I didn't find one. It would be awesome if an app combined the manual functions of this app, with some automated database stuff..I'd of course be interested in hearing about one that exists. hell, maybe this one does it and I missed it..
01:02 AM April 18, 2005 Comments 6
kellee
alright brad! welcome to the club. will def check out this program - i'm still behind on shoving my entire music library onto my ipod, but i didn't have it on my computer to begin with, so it's been extremely time consuming.
Julie
Yeah, I know what you mean. I've had my Ipod since September and to date I still have 371 songs to fix....Hopefully after hellacious Thursday I can download this little app and be done with it! I found it easy to add genres by using the smart playlist to pull out songs and then pasting the genre and hitting next a billion times....the rest, much harder...
brad
kellee: I'm not sure how ripping works, haven't done it yet. But I imagine the it should be automated within iTunes to grab the correct cd database metadata from the internet. if it doesn't , it should!
one of the big advantages to this app is the ability to custom get tags from file name. doesn't matter if it's 01_(song title)-artist.mp3, trackname-01_artist.mp3, etc. you can custom script a batch process for each set of files to rename them all accordingly so that, for example, in iTunes the song name is ONLY the song name, and doesn't include the track number or artist, etc.
Aaron
Yea I've been using T&R for several years now. Its totally indispensible. Especially if you are in the habit of downloading music p2p where id3 tags are often inconsistent or non-existant.
I've check out a number of other id3 tagging programs but nothing is as good as Tag&Rename. Still surprises me that no one has written a program that uses CDDB lookups to automate the process. That could really be quite the shareware cash cow.
Aaron
oh, and brad... I reccomend you check out an app called EphPod (http://www.ephpod.com/) for loading (and unloading) songs on your iPod. Far more flexible and powerful than iTunes, especially as Apple cripples functionality with each update.
brad
From a BBC Article entitled: "The cult of Mac:
How Apple's products have become objects of worship":"To enter the Apple store in Manhattan is to enter a temple.
Beneath its high vault, swish thin young men and women dressed from head to foot in black.
They hold objects in their hands, strange white and silver objects, objects of devotion which they present to lay visitors, to the uninitiated who wander in from Prince Street seeking retail solace.
...
The Italian philosopher, Umberto Eco, once wrote, tongue only partly in cheek, that Macintosh is Catholic while Microsoft computers are Protestant.
Macs, Umberto Eco opined, were 'cheerful, friendly, conciliatory,' traits he associated with Catholicism. More to the point, though, their way of operating was different from Microsoft's, giving more guidance to users.
Macs would, as Umberto Eco put it, 'tell the faithful how they must proceed step by step to reach - if not the Kingdom of Heaven - the moment in which their document is printed'.
He saw that as like Catholicism, in contrast to the Protestant faith which he thought, like Microsoft computers, would 'allow free interpretation of scripture, demand difficult personal decisions... And take for granted that not all can reach salvation. To make the system work you need to interpret the program yourself'."
I think this article could be (and probably has been) written with much more insight, but here's the link if you want to read it:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4464735.stm
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