Some of you will kow about this tool other will not. I post here for the others.

 

basically its an mp3 tagging program with some magic to actually identify what the songs are by scanning them. In many cases it can take mp3 with no tag or filename and give them both.

 

Almost magic.

 

The user interface sucks and takes some getting used to but its worth it.

 

http://musicbrainz.org/doc/PicardTagger

I like this one better, you should take a look at it

Jaikoz Audio Tagger

 

Jaikoz uses MusicBrainz, an online database of over 6 million songs. Many of these songs also have an Acoustic Id provided by MusicIP, allowing a song to be identified by the actual music, so it can do a match even if you have no metadata! These feature means that Jaikoz gives you the flexibility to lookup your songs by both the acoustic id and the metadata making Jaikoz a very accurate tool.

 

Jaikoz is available for Mac OS X, Windows XP/Vista and Linux

 

http://www.jthink.net/jaikoz/jsp/startup.jsp

Will give it a go. Thanks for the link.

Jaikoz is available for Mac OS X, Windows XP/Vista and Linux

http://www.jthink.net/jaikoz/jsp/startup.jsp

 

I like that it runs on Windows and Linux! I'll give it a try too!

I might also want to suggest you look at MusicIP mixer

http://www.musicip.com/mixer/index.jsp

(also available for Mac OS X, Windows XP/Vista and Linux)

I use it primarily for light tagging (Artist/Tittle/genre/year/album via acoustic fingerprints), file organization/renaming, and de-duping

Music IP handles my mp3 collection (over 350,000 files) with no trouble (Need adequate ram)

Hands down Music IP is my favorite file manager for my collection, nothing gets moved or deleted unless I use MusicIP to do so

 

I use Jaikoz for album art/lyrics etc

Jaikoz tops out at about 30,000 files, so I don't load my whole collection at once

 

Both programs work using acoustic fingerprints, and creating those fingerprints takes time, so be prepared for that, I save the fingerprints in the tags, so it only needs to be done once. These acoustic fingerprints are used to look up tag details from central databases, so even files with no tag information or obscure file names can be identified

 

I have used Musicbrainz and it did help for songs that were completely hosed up and had little, no, or incorrect tags. Once that's done though the hard work begins of getting things sorted and shoving album art into the files. For that I use MP3 Tag http://www.mp3tag.de/en/ as it does a GREAT job of finding album art and whatnot. Oh and for quickie stuff I have a shell extension loaded in Vista that lets me twiddle tags on the fly with a right click Do not recall it's name but there's a few out there so check them out.

 

For a toll to be useful to me it needs to be able to handle HUGE libraries. While I don't normally load it all up at once I've found a few programs that really bog down or choke on even medium sized stuff <sigh>

The amazon plugin for musicbrainz does a good job at art. Not the greatest resolution but zero effort.

I've used musicbrainz for a while now, good program. Tomorrow I'll have to take a look at that Mp3Tag program you linked, BLKMGK.

I've used musicbrainz for a while now, good program. Tomorrow I'll have to take a look at that Mp3Tag program you linked, BLKMGK.

 

If you find you need more sources for covers their forums usually have additional ones you can add