picture and music manager software

Hi, In my system, lots of pictures are saved here and there. It would be a very cumbersome process if it have to search them manually. I even forgot in which folder what images are.

I want a program to search my entire computer for images and display it. I want the program to recognise variety of image formats, jpeg, tiff, svg, gif etc etc. Pls suggest one. Pls try to suggest one with less size so that I can save on downloads.

Same for music too.

Picasa for images

and maybe iTunes for Music? Not Sure.

*techtites.com/2009/01/12/ten-completely-free-software-to-manage-your-movies-and-music/

J River media Centre is much much better than iTunes.

Try Picasa, simple and best.

yes I have picassa, everytime I open it, it starts searching again and this take a lot of time.

use paid softwares like ACDSee - best or free alternative like Xnview .. for music try Foobar2000.

As for Pictures Picasa does the job although I do miss some features. For Music nothing beats Mediamonkey for me. Near Perfect.

Thanks for your suggestions all. I dont like Picasa though, I will try Xnview.
Mediamonkey I have used. I am facing some problem since it displays the Track name and not file name. And windows display the file name.

e.g. ''Track01_lucky_kabhi.mp3'' is the file name but mediamonkey displays it as ''Kabhi aisa lagta hai- Lucky Ali'' which is the track name. I want it to display the file name.

Yeah well that can be solved. You just have to right click on the Title or any column, Select filename and then drag it to front, I mean the first and there you have it. It will display filename for you.

Ok thanks, will try it.

You are welcome buddy.

For images i prefer FastStone Image Viewer.
Musicbee for music.

bubusam13 said:
Thanks for your suggestions all. I dont like Picasa though, I will try Xnview.
Mediamonkey I have used. I am facing some problem since it displays the Track name and not file name. And windows display the file name.

e.g. ''Track01_lucky_kabhi.mp3'' is the file name but mediamonkey displays it as ''Kabhi aisa lagta hai- Lucky Ali'' which is the track name. I want it to display the file name.

All the players display Title not the file name.

I need a manager basically that search all my drives and shows me the music files so that I donot have to open each and every folders separately. Sometime I even forget in which folder what songs are.

So if its a player, its just an added functionality for me

^And I gave solution for that in 2nd reply of this thread, only if you had tried.

yes will try. Approaching download limit. So have to download in office.
Damn I m missing my BSNL EVDO unlimited

3 more music manager apps I can suggest are :
Jaangle - highly recommended ;-)

, Helium Music Manager and MP3 Organizer Pro.

bubusam13 said:
I need a manager basically that search all my drives and shows me the music files so that I donot have to open each and every folders separately. Sometime I even forget in which folder what songs are.

So if its a player, its just an added functionality for me

Mediamonkey does that + it shows the file name after some minor tweaking.

Thank you guys... else i will get confused.
Is there any app that automatically searches and add album art.. And also some software that can add track because many files I have, have only file names like track01.mp3, rohit_fav1.mp3. Thay dont have track name and I dont know which album they are from.
I can manually recognise tracks using TrackID app in my phone but I need some PC software that automatically does it. and add track names.

Well thats what Title is for. As for Album Title, mediamonkey can search for you but you have to do it manually and if you make it automatic it may make a mess.

bubusam13 said:
Thank you guys... else i will get confused.
Is there any app that automatically searches and add album art.. And also some software that can add track because many files I have, have only file names like track01.mp3, rohit_fav1.mp3. Thay dont have track name and I dont know which album they are from.
I can manually recognise tracks using TrackID app in my phone but I need some PC software that automatically does it. and add track names.

Even J River media centre does adds TrackID after you let it search from net.

What does TrackID does exactly ???

gameranand said:
What does TrackID does exactly ???

Filling tags (ID3 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).

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Video studio is better than all

^^ what are you talking about ??

@ Op - did you try the app I've suggested on post #17

I know what ID3 tag is but does J River fills the tags by analyzing the content or by some other method. Say I have a file with just a file name Track1.mp3 and there is nothing more in the tag then how exactly J River will fill the tags ??

topgear said:
^^ what are you talking about ??

I was replying to gameranand

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gameranand said:
I know what ID3 tag is but does J River fills the tags by analyzing the content or by some other method. Say I have a file with just a file name Track1.mp3 and there is nothing more in the tag then how exactly J River will fill the tags ??

You itself gave the answer. "Analyzing the content". J River matches a part of the song with some online source ad then updates it ID3 tags. But this process may fail for some very old hindi song which has very rare existence.

gameranand said:
What does TrackID does exactly ???

TrackID is a app in Sony Android phones. You start the app and place your phone near to any playing song, any language. And it recognises which song, album and artist. It comes handy when you hear some song in TV, radio, party etc and you donno what song it is.

It actually records a 10 sec sample of the song and search the internet for matching frequency.

topgear said:
^^ what are you talking about ??

@ Op - did you try the app I've suggested on post #17

So many suggestions. Post 17 is yet to come. But Jaangle seems promising

ok Guys suggest me 1 thing. Off topic. My 4.1 system went bad and sound is not clear in left side. What should I buy, altec lansing vs2621 or FnD a520. I like Tight bass. Or should I go for 5.1. No budget. But don't wanna spend much.

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Ok just checked online, J river looks polished, nice and Jaangle is simple and full of functionalists. But, does they display file names ?
Media monkey is good but not look as polished as j river.

A520 has got good bass as per reviews. Cheapest "good" 5.1 is logitech 506 @ ~5k.

But, does they display file names ?

Whichever player you use, it will always display the "title", not the file name. File name will only be displayed if the title is blank.

^^ mediamonkey also displays filename. I one used a Good Player named Musicmatch Jukebox. It have the option to display filename too
A520 bass is boomy as per review.

Thanks for the info. I also have to use Jriver then to fill the tags.

As for speakers A520 is a real nice speakers. Bass is good and all, worth the money and better then those 2000INR 2.1 speakers.

Tried J River and its feature of analysing the content and filling the tags and let me tell ya that its hardly of any use. I analysed like 20-30 tracks and it was able to fill up just one song. Really terrible. I am better with my Media Monkey.

I too tried J river

and dont like it. Jaangle's database is also small, it doesnot recognise many.

So which one did you choose finally ???

Did you try Musicbee??

No. I don't have to I am better with Media Monkey. Do tell if there are some rare features in Musicbee. I might give it a shot.

I am using Jaikoz, it works. Its trial version cleans 20 tracks at a go. Then close and restart the software. Its nice, though not as simple and automated as I wanted, it does the job. You can try Tagalicious which seems very very easy but works along with iTunes. Check that.

@gameranand
Sorry, that question was directed at OP. I should have made it clear. Mediamonkey is very good too. In fact both are very similar. If you are happy with either one you might not want to change to the other.

^^ no Jadoo, I didnt tried musicbee yet