Clean Up Your Media Files with Winamp

It can be really confusing when you have a lot of untitled songs or albums floating around in your media library. Especially if you have a large collection of MP3s or other media files. Having them cleaned up makes managing your music a lot easier... not to mention having clean data makes the Orgler a lot more useful when Charting your listening history.

Use the Winamp Auto-Tag feature to clean up your library:

1) In your media library or playlist select the files you want to update ("Auto-Tag") by either Shift+clicking to select all files in a certain range, or Ctrl+clicking to select multiple individual files.

NOTE: Since the Auto-Tag process is resource intensive you should not select all you files at once. Not to mention, it would be wise to not blindly Auto-Tag all of your files... in particular, those files that already have metadata. By doing it in stages you can ensure that you don't overwrite information that you already have in place.

2) Once you have all the files selected, then right-click on one of the files and select: Send to -> Auto-Tag

3) The "Winamp Auto Tagger" dialog box opens and starts to analyze your selection by accessing the Gracenote Media Database (this can take several seconds to several minutes depending upon the number of selected files).

4) Once completed you can scroll through each individual track to verify the data before applying the changes. There are check boxes next to each track listing allowing you to only apply changes to those selected items (note: all tracks are selected by default).

5) Once you've made your selections, click "Apply Changes".



6. Although the updates have taken place, you may not see it immediately. What you'll have to do is deselect the media library (or playlist) and select it again in order to refresh the screen. As you'll see below, the metadata has been updated (artist name, album name, track #, track title, genre, etc.)