Cleaning Up Library & Metadata Tips

[sprittibee]

I am new to Subsonic and have had my fill of iTunes and laptop crashes at this point. I have a large database of music and even more on actual CDs that I want to burn and add to it. I was planning on spending a month of weekends doing this, but wanted to get some tips before starting to save myself the time. I was searching about the best ways to clean up your music library and someone suggested Subsonic. Is this a good program to update metadata and move and restructure actual file hierarchy or is this more of a player with playlists? I want to have my actual files cleaned up so that I don't have to worry about ever fighting with iTunes again.

My issue I've had is that I originally stored everything in the PC way - folders with artist, then album. When moving files into iTunes, this is a nightmare!

Can you suggest some tips on where to start and what to do first?

[alphawave7]

I would recommend you delete iTunes straight away, and download MediaMonkey. MM has an iTunes like skin if you want, but I find the standard skin best, and after studying the help file/Getting Started Guide, you'll be ripping/encoding, tagging/naming/arting in no time. Once your collection is compiled, MM has a UPnP server for local share, and Subsonic for 'away', home, aka ubiquitous access to your collection.
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