I figured I would upload this file because it looks like some of my favorite applications are starting to disappear online or go for a paid model. I have mentioned this one before and it is by far the easiest and best way to manage your MP3 tags.
So today thanks to the help of a gift card from my girlfriend for Valentines Day I made my first purchases of MP3’s from Amazon’s site. I must say it was a great experience. After a short download of their download app (very very small) I was up and running and downloading MP3’s. Amazon grabbed my attention a while ago as the first ones to sell non-DRM MP3’s and for a cheaper price than iTunes. Everything about that last sentence should tell you why I love the service.
You can download full CD’s for $9.99. After download you can go out and grab the MP3 files and do whatever you want with them like move them to your external hard drive or put them on your MP3 player. You can also setup the application to automatically add the files to your iTunes Library but I turned that feature off because I store all my MP3’s on a separate hard drive and wanted to do a little tag modification before adding it to my collection.
It is safe to say that this is where all my music will be purchased because it was such an easy and good experience. The files quickly downloaded and were already setup with album art as well as all the ID3 tag information. Plus the fact that there is no DRM on them makes them actually worth something to me!
This is how downloading music should be…
This is by far and away the best application for updating MP3 tag information because you can do thousands of MP3’s at once with the click of a button. I also used this application to solve some of my album art issues I experienced after downloading the correct album art. A must have for any MP3 collection
So after winning (yes I would never buy) an iPod Touch, I decided I would need to add all album art to my MP3 collection. Because I have ripped my MP3 collection using tools like Audiograbber, I do not have any album art. Well after some searching, downloading, and experimenting I finally found one that works. Actually this was mentioned by one of my blogs the exact day I was looking for it. So I used the application Album Cover Art Downloader, which is multi platform and then went through and started downloading the album art. After this because iTunes is retarded and doesn’t notice any change to you music library I used my good old friend iTunes Library Updater to get the job done, which I have spoke about before. After doing all of that my music files now have album art! It is just a little time consuming to get the library up to date but what are you going to do?
Alright here is a good windows CD to MP3 ripper. I have installed the lame dll so that you can encode at a good bit-rate.
