OneAndOneIs2

but only because it was pretty good at its job.

Like most geeks, I have a lot of music living on my hard drive(s). Although, unlike many geeks, none of it's from P2P downloads.

Some of the music files are years old - dating back to some crappy MP3 shareware ripper I used when I was running Windows. And a lot of ripping software stumbles & falls when it comes across compilation albums: The only reason "Various artists" wasn't the biggest directory in my collection was because it was split into "various", "vairous" and "various artists"

The number of tracks that had the artist's name as part of the title was unreal. And although you can generally edit such information via your music player, bulk renames can be a real trial. It's not a good way to edit literally hundreds of tracks.

Enter EasyTAG. Not only did this make it about as easy as you're likely to get such a task, permitting such things as bulk adjustments of names (Like editing a whole album of tracks from "Surname, Forename" to "Forename Surname" in one go) but it makes it pretty simple to track down duplicate tracks as well - e.g. I ripped "Ladykiller" from the compilation album of the same name some time before I bought & ripped the whole "Best of Lush" album, but the former was found under "V" for "Various artists"

It did seem to have an option to completely re-order the file locations as well, eliminating the "Various artists" directory once and for all. But I wasn't brave enough to try that without a backup, and backing up that many gigs just isn't my idea of fun.

But I thought I'd mention it, as it's genuinely improved the quality of my music collection.

And if you really want to know more about what's in my music collection, try the "last.fm" link up near the top of the sidebar ;o)