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Organize Your MP3 Library

You have a lot of MP3 files on your hard disk, right? But organizing MP3 collection is not that easy and enjoyable like listening to music. It may take hours of work, fixing tag information, renaming and sorting. Unfortunately, you don't have time to do all these works.

In this tutorial I will show you how to create an automatic system to help you keep an organized MP3 Library. You can save hours of work with the help of RoboBasket. If you don't have RoboBasket installed yet you can download it from here.

Step 1:Fix your ID3 Tags

The first step is cleaning up your ID3 tags. These are the fields built into every MP3 file that contain information about the artist, song name, album name, track number, and other critical details. In the following steps RoboBasket will organize your MP3 files based on the ID3 tags. If you don't know any software to edit ID3 tags you can try mp3tag. It's a freeware.

Step 2: Create a rule and test

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Open RoboBasket Settings Window and create a new rule in the rules pane as the figure shows. Add two actions:

  • Rename the file with pattern "mp3.title.extension"
  • Move to "MP3 Library" folder and sort into "mp3.album" subfolder
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Click on the system tray menu and check the Show Basket Window item. Drag and drop mp3 files into the basket window to check the rule's result.

Step 3: Set an automatically organized MP3 Library.

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In the "Folders" pane add a folder and select your incoming mp3 folder(e.g. your desktop). Make sure to apply the "MP3 Library" rule. Now you just need to put your MP3s on your desktop and edit the ID3 tag, RoboBasket will do the left work for you.

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