The GodFather v0.70
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When it comes to MP3 management, there are a lot of programs out there that will do a lot of things. It is often hard to find a good power tool that will let you organize and rename your files, and going through each one - one by one - is torture. If you find yourself in this boat, it is about time you paddled up and asked for your favor from The GodFather.
The GodFather is a freeware application that delivers when it comes to customizing your MP3 experience. It has more features than you can shake a stick at as well. Here is what the developer of the program has to say about it:
The GodFather is an intelligent MP3 renamer and organizer, that helps you get rid of all those strange MP3 file names and convert them into a consistent name scheme, based on the artist, song, album information etc. contained in the MP3 tag. The program will scan your MP3 folders and automatically suggest candidates for new names, showing you the old and suggested name in the result window.
There is a good guide to help you reorganize your music using The GodFather to help you get started.
Some people’s music collections are the most important thing they own. They will trim it, they will keep it organized and they will not let anybody mess it up. To make sure your collection of tunes stays in tact in easily manageable, I’d suggest you use The GodFather for all of your audio management issues.
[3.3M] [Win98/ME/2k/XP] [FREE]
[tags]mp3, organize, rename, Windows, freeware[/tags]
One Comment
Rob
April 25th, 2007
at 10:32am
Mitch,
Great post about The Godfather! After reading your post I checked it out, and agree that it looks like a pretty nice app for tag management.
However, if you’re at a point where your music library needs a program like this, might I suggest you also check out MediaMonkey (also freeware, at http://www.mediamonkey.com)? From what I can see, MM does everything The Godfather does plus a lot more, including serving as a complete replacement for iTunes.
It integrates a full-function player with equalizer and DSP support, flexible playlist management, built-in synch to iPods and most other MP3 players (both ways - you can play or copy iPod tracks TO your PC as well!), ripping of CDs w/ auto-tag from CDDB; auto-extraction of tags from existing tracks; ability to auto-tag a set of untagged tracks via lookup to Amazon (which works amazingly well and gets cover, track names, and even album notes/comments).
It supports all the major file formats, and lets you easily transcode tracks from one format to another. And of course, like The Godfather you can automatically rename and reorganize physical filenames and folder structures based on any pattern you can define.
One reason so many of us particularly like MM is that it’s very fast to search, sort, and do mass edits even with huge collections (50-100k+ tracks) because its library is maintained in a SQL database. There’s a thriving user community with tons of add-on scripts, plugins, and skins; and MediaMonkey also supports most plugins written for WinAmp.
I tried most every MP3 player/organizer I could find, but once I discovered MM, I never looked back and find I don’t need anything else. It’s freeware, but I liked it so much that I purchased a “gold lifetime” license which gives a few extra goodies like real-time disk monitoring for newly-added tracks - nice when you have multiple PCs pointing at a shared music drive.
And while the current version is great, MM recently unveiled a public beta of an upcoming major version (I’m using it now) which is even better. It adds iTunes-like album cover browsing and a ton of other cool stuff — but most importantly, the new version finally supports those of us that have large collections of classical music in addition to pop/rock/etc. This has been my biggest peeve about MM and just about every other organizer/player out there: You can manage most popular music using just the common Artist, Album, Album Artist, and Title tags — but for classical tracks you also need to use tags like Composer, Conductor, Performer, etc. which are at long last fully supported in the upcoming MM. Nirvana!