Organizing a Music Collection

Regardless of the source of your music files, errors and inconsistencies are bound to creep in to your library. Simple misspellings of track names are probably the most common error, but other problems can occur, too. Variations in the spelling or styling of an artist’s name can result in that artist’s work being filed in two different places.

The good news with Windows Media Player 11 is that it’s relatively simple to fix tagging errors anytime, without having to jump through too many hoops. In this section, we explore how to fix the most common errors. After you whip the metadata into shape, you can turn your attention to more esoteric aspects of your music collection. We cover the full spectrum of organizational ...

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