MakeItOne MP3 Album Maker is a free app that can merge multiple MP3s while maintaining full reversibility (the ability to unpack/split the file into its original constituents at any later point). Merged files can be played on any player and MakeItOne and can preserve and edit →
MP3 Diags: diagnose and repair your MP3 audio library
MP3 Diags is a free program that can scan your audio library for problems (including issues with invalid streams, low quality issues, incomplete tags, audio normalization, and others) and provides the ability to fix these. It includes an audio tag editor that can pull track data →
MetatOgger: audio tagger with “acoustic fingerprinting” and other powerful options
MetatOgger is a free, powerful program for tagging and renaming MP3s and other audio files. It offers the functions you would expect from a tag editor (e.g. mass renaming, tags from filenames or path, scripts to perform editing functions) as well as a few that are →
ATunes: get a sophisticated mp3 player with Last.fm integration
ATunes is an open source program that combines a powerful, full-featured music player with a Last.fm-powered recommendation engine. Available features include CD ripping, internet radio, audio podcasts, smart playlists, support for portable audio devices, and others. When it comes to great freeware audio players it seems →
Album Art Downloader XUI: batch-download missing album art
Album Art Downloader XUI is a free program that can download and save album art into your music folders. It is designed to scan your albums for missing album art and perform simultaneous multiple searches in batch. It also offers shell integration for quick album art →
BBoxV2: get a powerful yet lightweight audio player and manager
BBox Audio Player (BBoxV2) is a free lightweight audio player/manager that offers a good range of features including CD ripping, audio file tagging management, internet radio, automatic volume normalization, audio library management functions, and others. This program pulls a very interesting trick: it takes up less →
Mp3ListShellEx: create audio playlists on the fly, in the context menu
Mp3ListShellEx is Windows Explorer shell extension that allows you to create playlists or text lists of your MP3s simply by highlighting a folder and selecting an option from the right click context menu. Some things, such as organizing a large MP3 collection, never seem to end. →
Organize and Manage your Audio library with JRiver Media Jukebox
JRiver Media Jukebox is an advanced music manager that has recently turned 100% freeware. It provides most of the tools that you will ever need to play and manage your audio library, including audio format conversion, CD burning and ripping with online tag and album art support, →
IArtwork downloads album art in Itunes
IArtwork is an Itunes add-on that scans your Itunes library for available album art. It can then either downloads all missing album art en-masse and/or allow you to manage individual album instances individually. Although Itunes is equipped to download album art, it requires you to have →
MediaCoder Audio Edition provides powerful audio conversions for a broad range of formats
MediaCoder Audio Edition is a free, full-featured audio conversion program that can both read and write to almost all popular audio file formats as well as audio streams in video files. MediaCoder AE contains all the necessary codecs it needs for encoding/decoding audio within the standalone →
Find large format album artwork at AlbumArt.og
AlbumArt.org is a site that provides searchable CD and DVD art in large format. I’ve always used Amazon to download album art, which doesn’t provide large size images, and is on occasion unable to deliver artwork for some titles. My second resource is typically Google →
ITunes Art Importer
ITunes Art Importer is a plugin for Itunes that downloads album art from Amazon.com and saves it within the music files ID3 tag. It adds an additional layer of user control over the process of finding album art beyond that provided by ITunes. While ITunes provides →
