Get music year software
 

Hi I've just received a music library of over 5000 songs with no meta data, I've managed to use iTunes to do the album art and other software for album, artist, etc. so i organize my music by year and music that is released after the year 2000 i sort as genres but i need to know what year all these songs were released so i can organize them. I haven't yet found any software to do this and i am certainly not manually doing it so don't suggest that.
i'm pretty sure there is some software out there, i just need someone that has already found some to post it to me.

thanks in advance to anyone who suggests something.

ps. preferably windows but worst comes to worst it can be mac PPC based.

If you want to get metadata and id3 tags sorted out I would recommend using Easy Audio Copy (EAC) and/or dBpoweramp. You can also try using MediaMonkey is you want something easier to work with, but with limited capabilities.

I'm not sure what the problem is. Do you have lots of incomplete albums containing only the occasional song or do you have full albums? That has bearing on what kind of database you can use to get your information.

If you have incomplete albums and need to find metadata for f.ex single songs, then I think you could use a tagger that scrapes info from musicbrainz. You might also use gracenote which comes with Winamp. There may be easier ways to do it, but using the Winamp way, you'd just install that media player, load in your library and auto tag your songs.

I personally like the discogs (I like their standardized genre/style system), but my software only queries it for albums and not single tracks. It's also not the largest database.

edit :

The tidiest way to keep a music library is not to enter anything into it until it's been properly tagged.

another edit :

If you're a foobar user, there is a musicbrainz tagger -> http://www.foobar2000.org/components...oo_musicbrainz

There's also a very nice discogs tagger (very!), but I guess it might be less useful in your case.