the completist mp3 collector, part 1

jaikoz
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at the moment i am running jaikoz to find the missing/incomplete/incorrect id3 tags for mp3 files on my laptop.  a check at musicbrainz.org this morning showed that they are phasing out TRMs in favor of PUIDs but i can't use their newest tagger ("picard") on mac os x.  le sigh.

previously i had used ieatbrainz but it's such a CPU hog, practically making even my dual CPU desktop unusable.  still, you have to give props to jay tuley for dev and distributing it for free.  jaikoz has a better interface and feature set for comparing and editing tags and runs much faster, even on my single-CPU laptop.  i'm at 212 files out of 968 so far.  if all goes well i may try to sic it on the 21,372 files on already on the other machine.

all of this came about because i found that my dj assault - sumthin' 2 shake yo' azz 2 file tags are incomplete and hence don't play seamlessly in the proper order.  this is a serious issue if i want to get my cristal and limo on.

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Timmy!
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I have a 56 GB music collection. I'd guess about 60% of that is duplicate music. A distressingly large portion of the music files don't have correct id3 tags. This falls into many categories, like:
- missing info (like, no album name or no track name)
- the right info in the wrong fields
- the wrong album name

How do I tame this beast? The show duplicates function (under View) cannot be trusted to work properly if the id3 tags are not exactly right.
leave luck to heaven
yeh, i also have a mass of mp3s with no tags at all and cryptic file names. jaikoz uses acoustic fingerprinting to ID tracks and it's correct more often than not, but not so much on really obscure tracks. once as many files as possible are tagged properly, run the Show Duplicates function in iTunes and then sort the view by track name. then i command (apple) + click on tracks to delete and command + delete them permanently.
bouche
HOLY COW.... 56 gb?! What is the mean bit rate of all these mp3s? I'm slowly reconverting my hundreds of cds to mp3, using vbr... They end up in the 160-170kbps area. I used to rip at 192 and up, but vbr seems alright so far. If my other hd in my old computer didn't kick, I might have had around 20gb, or more.
leave luck to heaven
21,372 files = 98 GB. also, i've found that VBR doesn't play nice with all players/streamers. i used to stream live from my last apartment and VBR doesn't downsample gracefully on the fly when needed.
bouche
ooh... I never considered that. I've wanted to stream too. If I ever am in a position to, I'll have to reconvert. :-/

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