We found using a combination of MediaMonkey and MusicBrainz Picard could handle a lot of jobs. There is no one program that can handle tagging all your files perfectly. You'll have to go into the Options menu to activate that feature. MusicBrainz Picard does handle batch tagging.Īdditionally, MusicBrainz Picard has Audio Fingerprinting which allows for very accurate music tagging. This free program is cross-platform and works on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. So if you really want to use the album art from the original album and not a "Greatest Hits" collection, you'll have that ability. MediaMonkey also is a media manager/player, so if you wanted to rid yourself of iTunes or Media Player, this is a free option.Ĭompared to TuneUp, MediaMonkey does give you the option to choose which album a song came from. There is a limited batch tagging feature - it only works on a per album basis (you can tag multiple songs as part of the same album). MediaMonkey is a free piece of software for Windows only. You can have TuneUp not apply album art and find your own, but that is a bit cumbersome. So, if a song was both on a compilation and the original release, you don't have the option to pick from a list of albums. However, it did use album art from compilation albums with no option to use album art from another album. In our tests, we found TuneUp did a good job finding music data. The interface is simple - you drag and drop files to TuneUp from either Windows Media Player or iTunes and TuneUp will find the proper artist, album, and other song data including album art. It allows you to tag all of your files in a batch if you'd like. The program normally costs around $40 for an annual subscription or about $50 as a one-time purchase. TuneUp is a pay program, but you can test it out for free on up to 50 songs. We tested out each of these solutions in today's episode of "Know How." Of course, you can always manually tag all your music and media files using iTunes or another media player program, but we wanted to see how automated solutions handled our messy library. Wish there was something similar on the Mac. on Windows I don't think you can get any better then MediaMonkey.I like TuneUp Pro but even then I still end of editing a lot of it myself manually.We asked you about your favorite tools for your music and here's what you had to say: Today, we're going to clean up our music library.
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