background preloader

Alpha Geek: Whip your MP3 library into shape, Part II - Album ar

Alpha Geek: Whip your MP3 library into shape, Part II - Album ar
Best way to find artist info and album art is to use Wikipedia. It's not easy or automatic in the least bit. But it will always have high quality album art, artists, and song info when other applications or sites fail to find what you need. Secondly, I would like to point out the solution offered for Mac users was lame. If you want an easy way of converting ID3 tags, use iEatBrainz. Also, another helpful way of adding music to songs and albums is using a widget for OS X Tiger called: Album Art. If you want an easy way to find CoverArt when you are done converting those tags, then download CoverScout.

5 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Music Collection If you're like most people these days, you've probably got a lot of music on your computer — whether from your own CD library, or downloaded from Amazon, iTunes, or (ahem) elsewhere. But if the only thing you're doing with your music collection is listening to it, you're missing out. There are a large number of web applications devoted to helping you get more from the music you already have. With the five web sites and applications below, you can learn more about your music playing habits, clean up your collection, see your favorite artists live, and have more fun with your music. What other web sites or applications do you use to get the most out of the music you own? 1. Last.fm is one of the most popular music social networks on the web. Other good options in the music recommendation category include MyStrands and the iLike music player addons. 2. Another option to help clean up your library metadata is TuneUp. 3. 4. 5. JamLegend is a Guitar Hero-like game built for the web.

Simplify Media - Connect Your Music #1 New York Times Bestseller Over 10 million copies sold In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people. For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear.

UberDrivel 4 Easy Tools To Fix and Auto-organize Your Music Library | MakeU Advertisement Listening to music is a pretty important part of anyone’s life. With the advent of even more features in media players to recommend music, create playlists, and display large, beautiful album art – everyone wants their collection to be as beautiful as this one: artist names, tracks, year, genre and other tags. In this article we take a look at the best tools to fix music tags and organizing and “˜cleaning’ your songs. The Top 5 Free Media Players for Windows The Top 5 Free Media Players for Windows Strong media player apps always rise to the top and it's not important which one you use. The best media player for you is the one you most enjoy using. TuneUp Companion TuneUp Companion has one major advantage over all the other solutions: it uses Gracenote CDDB database – which is considered to be one of the largest and most comprehensive out there. It’s definitely the most comprehensive solution – and easy to use. MusicBrainz Picard Mp3Tag iTunes Store File Validator Conclusion

Related: