Sorting out music library

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I wonder if someone can help me here.

I've got my music scattered over various different sources over the years. The majority of it I still have on CD and the rest is on my HTPC.

The problem is when I transferred my music over to my HTPC it wasn't exactly categorised correctly.

At present I'm just copying and pasting my music over to my phone via SD.

However on the default music app I'm using its not really showing much information (it often just shows "unknown artist" / "unknown song"). Also, sometimes the music isn't in the right format to play.

Therefore I want to kind of start from scratch to sort out my music library. In that sense I want to figure out:

1. the best program to manage my library

2. the best program to rip my CD's and correctly name my library

3. the best program to sync music up with my phone

I never have really gotten into playlists, but it seems that is what all the cool kids are now doing these days, therefore I guess I want to find a good program to help me deal with this playlist stuff.

From research it seems I may want to go down the route of one of Winamp, DoubleTwist or Spotify. I guess there is also iTunes. Speaking of iTunes, my missus uses an ipone. The ultimate aim would be that we would have one big music library on my HTPC and we would be able to pick and choose our music from that. Now if my missus uses iphone, would I pretty much be limited to iTunes.

I have tried Spotify in the past and I do note it has the benefit of being a music library as well as being able to download songs. One thing that stopped me from using Spotify though is it would never hold track position when I stopped playing music and it would always want to try and get online and log on.

I greatly appreciate any words of wisdom you can suggest for my quest.

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Have a look at MediaMonkey , it's a great tool to organized and sync your music. It also help me to rename easily most of my music file.

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Have a look at MediaMonkey , it's a great tool to organized and sync your music. It also help me to rename easily most of my music file.

Looking that as an option, seems everything built in in terms of ripping, re-organising, tagging etc.

Did you get the free version or stump up for the Gold version?

[Beuze]

Looking that as an option, seems everything built in in terms of ripping, re-organising, tagging etc.

Did you get the free version or stump up for the Gold version?

I'm still using the free version and it does everything i need.

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OK cools, also looking into Songbird or just even using WMP as well.