how to clean up my music

[pandaswag]

a good amount of my music has the artists in the title so that there is nothing in the artist part which makes it unorganized. i was wondering if there is an app i could get to somehow give all my music the correct title and artist.

 

[funkylogik]

I'd like to know that too man. I have a feeling the music would have to have "tags" or something to that effect Imbedded in it for it to be possible but I'm a noob with that kinda stuff.
Right now I just put up with messy music

Welcome to the forums by the way and sorry your first reply was a rubbish one lol.
There are some clever cookies on here though :thumbup:

You could just use a file explorer app to rename them manually if you have the patience

 

[pool_shark]

I like to keep my music organized my way.
For instance, I like to have all of a particular artists music in one folder regardless of the name of the album where the music came from.

I have all of the Prince music in the Prince folder, Disturbed in the Disturbed folder, etc.

I use an app called itag.
You can change the name of the song, the name of the album, the album cover, etc.

 

[Guru82]

On Windows PC, often use MediaMonkey to Auto-Tag from web (uses Amazon music database) and then Auto-Organize to change their file names to 'Artist - Album - Title' and put them in folder structure 'Artist // Album'. Perhaps you could install MediaMonkey, connect your phone and do this over USB Mass Storage?

Or you could try MediaMonkey Beta for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ventismedia.android.mediamonkeybeta
I don't think it has an Auto-Tag or Auto-Organize option, but it I think it allows you to edit the tags on the android device.

 

[Guru82]

I like to keep my music organized my way.
For instance, I like to have all of a particular artists music in one folder regardless of the name of the album where the music came from.

I have all of the Prince music in the Prince folder, Disturbed in the Disturbed folder, etc.

I use an app called itag.
You can change the name of the song, the name of the album, the album cover, etc.

You know, I'm sort of getting sick of having mine sorted into album folders, as when you have a few albums from the same artist, end up with same exact duplicate tracks/titles. Albeit sometimes there's live versions or other instrumental for example.

 

[pool_shark]

You know, I'm sort of getting sick of having mine sorted into album folders, as when you have a few albums from the same artist, end up with same exact duplicate tracks/titles. Albeit sometimes there's live versions or other instrumental for example.

Yep. I hated having different albums based on the song where the album originated.
As the post above advises, I used media monkey years ago before smartphones became smart enough to perform the same tasks.

Now I do it all on my phone, tagging the songs my way.

 

[chanchan05]

I still prefer doing the tags on my PC.

 

[dvhttn]

I still prefer doing the tags on my PC.

+100! I use mp3tag ... Mp3tag - the universal Tag Editor (ID3v2, MP4, OGG, FLAC, ...) ... get into the habit of using tyhis and all your music organisation problems go away ... You just have to get into the habit of adding ALL the mp3 tags from the start. Not just the artist and album/song title but all of them.

Dave

 

[chanchan05]

I use MusicBee, which already doubles as my music player.

 

[shauny13]

I use Zortram on my pc. They now have an app in the play store.

It says album art downloader, but it does tag editing too.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zortam.music

 

[RazzMaTazz]

I use ID3fixer.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yschi.ID3Fixer

Read the following only if your problem relates to "unknown artist" names in WMA (not MP3, or other types of) music files... Android has a bug that doesn't allow it to read the Artist name on WMA music files even though the artist name is properly set in the WMA file's ID3 tag. Google wants to kill Microsoft by making life difficult for Microsoft users so Google has no intention of fixing the problem even though it's a trivial fix. (I know the guy who runs the Android music engineering group.) Since the problem isn't that the WMA file's ID3 tag is wrong or bad, ID3fixer can't really fix the tag such that Android can read it. However, ID3 fixer can fix the Android "library" for any "unknown artists" in WMA music files, but since the library information (which is basically a database of your songs) is stored in RAM, that library gets wiped out and recreated whenever you power off/on the phone. Therefore you have to run ID3fixer every time you power up the phone.