Top 10 Free Programs to make the most out of your MP3 Collection

Ok, you’ve got loads of music on your computer - but is that all cluttered, unorganized, unmanaged and simply not easy to access? May be you need to do something. Literally hundreds of free software let you play, organize, burn and do lots more with your digital MP3 music collection. Have a well tagged, sortable music collection that you can be proud of!

Here comes a carefully chosen list of free programs that might help you squeeze the best out of your MP3 collection.

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^^ I warned you! Now face the consequences.. Banned for a week.

kalpik said:
^^ I warned you! Now face the consequences.. Banned for a week.

Ok. But there are about 321312423142342312312 oranges in this planet. How many can you ban???

All of them?

Now i can manage my 12 GB mp3 easily

No Offence but MediaMonkey(mentioned in blog post) is one of the crappiest softwares i've ever used .

The User-Interface totally sucks in terms of usability and you can't even properly browse the library without getting irritated .

They seriously need to work on the UI and Ease-of-use department .

^^have you used the latest one?It has pretty cool GUI.The main feature of media monkey in the no. of tools it packs and automatic tagging of songs in metadata.

of course it your collection consists of mainly untagged or improperly tagged songs then its very difficult to browse.

Cool...

The_Devil_Himself said:
^^have you used the latest one?It has pretty cool GUI.The main feature of media monkey in the no. of tools it packs and automatic tagging of songs in metadata.

of course it your collection consists of mainly untagged or improperly tagged songs then its very difficult to browse.

Each and every file in my Collection is Tagged(+Album Art) , but still the Library Browsing of MediaMonkey has a lot of hiccups and leaves a lot to be desired .

Like for example when you wanna browse by album , you double-click on album-name , then rather than displaying the tracks in the album , it just starts playnig the whole album , and you actually have to change to track-view and find the song all over again to view tracks in that album.

Compare this to WMP 11 , it shows album art-covers , when you click on album , it shows tracks .

Similarly , in Artist view , in WMP 11 you click on artist it shows all albums by that artist along with tracks .

In mediamonkey , in artist view , it just sorts-by artist rather than have a custom-view for it .

Overall feel of Mediamonkey is very clinky .

^^+1
And also, it does not support featuring artists...
Adds a whole lot of artists to my collection?
Is there any software that supports feat. artists??

redhat said:
^^+1
And also, it does not support featuring artists...
Adds a whole lot of artists to my collection?
Is there any software that supports feat. artists??

There's an "Album Artist" and "Artist" tag , you can use Album Artist to arrange songs by album and you can fill Artist field with all artists for a particular song .

This setup Works Perfectly fine in WMP 11 and iTunes and Amarok .

i like J river Media jukebox, but its quite heavy on my machine

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thanks for linking to my blog post guys!

Very good compilation shankar_ganesh.
Thanks.

I know I'm asking a wrong question here but still I Would like to know which software is best to play MP3 songs? Mostly I use Winamp. What about others like iTunes, Windows Media player etc?

ajayritik said:
I know I'm asking a wrong question here but still I Would like to know which software is best to play MP3 songs? Mostly I use Winamp. What about others like iTunes, Windows Media player etc?

Windows media Player 11

Zeeshan, I was looking for a replaygain plugin for media player. Do you know where to get it?

ajayritik said:
I know I'm asking a wrong question here but still I Would like to know which software is best to play MP3 songs? Mostly I use Winamp. What about others like iTunes, Windows Media player etc?

If you are not bothered much about album art and stuff, Winamp 2.x with a good DSP plugin is the best player out there and also the lightest!

Foobar is lighter than Winamp 2 IMO.
And got loads of features.

kalpik said:
Zeeshan, I was looking for a replaygain plugin for media player. Do you know where to get it?

I don't think WMP 11 supports the ReplayGain tag coz as it is , it has automatic volume levelling .

Although you can use MP3Gain to level all your MP3's .

I know that.. I dont want to apply replygain, as that makes my songs sound very low on my phone.. Volume leveling aint that good.. Anyway.. Lets hope they come out with a plugin soon

Why not switch to another player?

I am using winamp/foobar right now

Was just looking for a replaygain plugin for WMP11 that's why i asked.

infra_red_dude said:
If you are not bothered much about album art and stuff, Winamp 2.x with a good DSP plugin is the best player out there and also the lightest!

My friend had suggested me to go for Winamp 2.9 Version he told me that the newer ones or the ones after it are not so good. Is it true? I have always used Winamp but wanted to see if there is something better than it. What is DSP Plugin? What's the purpose for it?

Zeeshan Quireshi said:
There's an "Album Artist" and "Artist" tag , you can use Album Artist to arrange songs by album and you can fill Artist field with all artists for a particular song .

This setup Works Perfectly fine in WMP 11 and iTunes and Amarok .

yup, I use that in WMP11 n iTunes but this feature aint there in MediaMonkey
Correct me if Im wrong...

redhat said:
yup, I use that in WMP11 n iTunes but this feature aint there in MediaMonkey
Correct me if Im wrong...

Yeah MediaMonkey doesn't have this feature .

foobar

Dolphin
Windows Explorer
Natulius

For me, a good file manager is enough for organising my music to the best possible extent, better than what any dumb-a$$ software like iTunes, Windows Media Player, Real Player, etc has offer.

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MetalheadGautham said:
Dolphin
Windows Explorer
Natulius

For me, a good file manager is enough for organising my music to the best possible extent, better than what any dumb-a$$ software like iTunes, Windows Media Player, Real Player, etc has offer. 8)

Sigh ! You'll know when your collection runs into hundred's of gb's and you need to Organize data on your PMP as well.

Zeeshan Quireshi said:
Sigh ! You'll know when your collection runs into hundred's of gb's and you need to Organize data on your PMP as well.

never ever under estimate the power of the human brain.

PS: WTF are you doing online ? aren't your boards on ?

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