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31Oct/090

The King of all Music Apps

Five years ago, I didn’t care a single little bit about music in any way shape or form.  Now, I have over 4 gibibytes or so of it, and I can’t seem to find an application to manage it decently.

I recently tried MediaMonkey, but what i thought would auto-update all of my music, just assigned it to the album of a completely unrelated artist and screwed up a good bit of my library!  Ughh!

So, I’m still trying to find a Music Management Application that can do the following:

  • Update MP3 ID3 Tags (with:)
  • Update Album Artwork (High Resolution)
  • Update Album and Track names and Artists, Year, Genre (basics)
  • Add/Update Lyrics (Unsynchronized & Synchronized if Possible)
  • Move into custom directories the user specifies.

It needs to do this for both English/Japanese tracks.  iTunes and Windows Media Player both do most of these functions fairly well, but their library isn’t nearly big enough.

If I had an app that could do all that perfectly, and almost automatically, that would be great.  Pulling the data from wherever it needed to, FreeDB, Gracenote, Amazon, anything it could possibly get its hands on.

Does anybody know of an app that does all/most of this, or am I eventually going to have to write my own?