For the more mainstream music I have I went through and used Picard and manually reviewed everything and altered accordingly before saving the changes. This was only around 10km tracks so wasn’t too bad, just slowly chipped away at it over time. Now it is in a good place anything new I add I can just do the same and it doesn’t take too long.

I tried a few automated ways but they are all unreliable. I don’t believe this is really anything you can automate and still get accurate results, tou have to put in the time.

My DJ library which is mostly stuff that would never be recognised by any software is about 25k songs and growing. I went through and systematically loaded all the tracks in batches into mp3tag and manually reviewed and edited every track to be tagged correctly and within the naming convention I had chosen whilst at the same time giving me the opportunity to cull anything I didn’t want.

It was extremely time consuming but ultimately the only way I was going to achieve what I wanted.

After that they would all be run through mixed in key. So now anything new I get goes through the same process of mp3tag to mixed in key to the library and now I’m in a good place.

Note for anyone else doing this, always do mp3tag first, if you run mixed in key first then even just opening the tracks in mp3tag it will often overwrite your key tagging (if you are using comments tag to contain keys) so you’ll have to run mixed in key again. Even if you dont edit any of the tags on that track.

Ultimately I think you have to put in the time to get what you want, any automated solution is going to give you lots of incorrect results and end up tagging your stuff into a worse position than you were in to start with.

Make a cup of tea, open mp3tag and get to work!

Haha yeh, sorry, that was a bit of a rant but it is something that really winds me up :p

It doesn’t really matter how you frame it, you only let people access your files if you get something out of it first.

Personally I don’t think you are an arsehole for not sharing anything but within my music niche there is definitely a lot of cunt that lock all their shares and are generally very hostile in regards to their shit.

I share an absolute shit ton of stuff, a lot of brand new stuff and I always have hundreds if not thousands of tracks uploaded each week but my niche genre is absolutely full of elitist, gate keeping pricks.

Aside from locking all their files trying to get bandcamp vouchers and shit in exchange for their files when some people want some stuff from me have had a fair few conversations with people saying “yeh you can have access to my files but you have to promise not to publicly share them”. I always agree that I won’t knowing full well I am going to straight away.

I have also received a few messages when these same people realise I’m sharing “their” music calling me all kinds of things but fuck those cunts!

Piracy is about sharing stuff and making it available to everyone as far as I’m concerned and pissing these elitist, file locking cunts off just makes me so fucking happy.

The concept of locking files goes against what piracy is all about in my opinion and when I do find these file locking cunts when I am searching for stuff myself I will often just unshare all my files from them because they don’t deserve all my new releases I share if they are going to act like that.

Long story short, fuck “etiquette”, share everything!

And if you are a “dubstep head” sharing locked files on there reading, fuck you, you are a piece of shit.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

Soulseek is the best place for music outside of private trackers imo

Within my chosen genre locked files tend to always mean they want something like that in return. Anyone I come across like this I block out of spite, I love sharing files with people but these people don’t deserve it IMO.

Personally I love to see someone downloading a shit load of stuff from me. Someone recently got a whole labels releases from me of over 30gb but that just tells me they have good taste in music as far as I’m concerned so I then explored their files and ended up getting a lot of interesting stuff in return.

I think these people with all their locked files asking for shit like gift vouchers in return for the privaledge of downloading a file from them are scummy, so the way you’ve approached it sounds great to me, you are sharing so grab whatever you need from people. Hopefully they will then explore your files and the cycle repeats!