wanted: id3 searching software

[stef25]

Please choose the appropriate forum for this topic. Thank you. is there any software available that will let me search my collection's id3 tags?

itunes f*cked up my collection by organising the tracks by artist and not leaving them by compilation as it was originally

the id3 tag still says what album it came off, for ex: "cool compilation 1". id like to find all the tracks with "cool compilation 1" in the id3 and cut/paste them back into the original folder.

does anyone know software that can do this?

thx
S

[Galley]

Search for "cool compilation 1", select all of he results, and then select "part of a compilation" in the Get Info panel. This will put them all back into My Music\Compilations\cool compilation 1.

[stef25]

using itunes? i uninstalled it but will reinstall if you say thats the best way ...

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[Galley]

Another option is to try the demo of Abander TagControl. One of the features it has is to create custom file tree schemes. You could use that to sort by album name.

http://www.softartstudio.com/tagcontrol/

Structure view This feature is unique to TagControl, and not present in any competitors products. By creating/choosing a mask, you can specify exactly how you want to view the tree structure. This enables you to see files with folder structure (as with Tag and Rename), or just as the list of files (as with Dr. Tag). It is possible to select more complex masks, with the help of the visual mask editor, and thsu view the files in any number of possible ways. The following fields are available for a mask: artist, album, year, genre, track, title, bitrate, samplerate, tag version, encoder, channel and time. Thus you can not only browse through the musical collection, but also analyze it, for example Enabling you to see files which have a certain bitrate or encoder. Any files without tags will be is in a separate folder. When viewing such a folder it will be dark blue color with different icons.