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I just picked this CD/MP3 player up for the car, to replace the stereo that was damaged when my car was broken into.

It turned out that Certified Audio (where I got K's CD player, and had extremely good service) was having a MASSIVE SALE (so emphasized, because they had to rent out Edmonton SportEx center to hold it) last weekend. It was a fortunate coincidence that I'd just received the insurance cheque the Friday before.

Kirsten and I wandered over to the North side after humming and hawing over whether we wanted to make the journey. I'm glad we did, because I wound up saving $130 on the deck. I likely wouldn't have spent that much to begin with, but since I had an insurance cheque and it was on sale, I decided what the heck. ;)

Once the window is replaced tomorrow, I'm going to install that puppy in the car and burn a disc of MP3s to "test" it. :)

Alan - since you've got an MP3 deck too - any suggestions for MP3 organizing software?

(this disjointed entry brought to you by the Chemical Brothers and lack of sleep)

Posted by Darren James Harkness on Monday, June 14, 2004 11:11 AM
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>> Arcterex » Monday, June 14, 2004 12:00 PM

I've been meaning to write about this for a while now :) Best way to do it is to throw everything into the musicbrainz.org tagger. It'll detect your mp3 based on a fingerprint, and download the appropriate tags. Once your files are properly tagged you can use a whole wack of tools to do automagical organization.

Another tool (mass tagger) is called The Godfather (google it) which does tagging, renaming, re-organization, etc.

I use mostly musicbrainz, and it's default organization structure (/artist/album/NN-artist-album.mp3 or something like that... it also does different format for various artists albums).

Thing to remember with musicbrainz is that sometimes it can mess up, or you can be fooled by albums that look similar but are different, or mis-named artists, etc. My advice is to go album by album and don't do HUGE numbers of mp3s at a time.

HTH.


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