Calling all network experts...How can I make the music on my PC stop skipping? [more inside]
posted by st starseed on Oct 24, 2009 - 10 answers

Help me clean up my messy music files [more inside]
posted by 1024x768 on Oct 11, 2009 - 11 answers

I have a bunch of assorted MP3s (maybe about 6000) that I would like to rename. What program do you recommend? [more inside]
posted by different on Sep 11, 2009 - 14 answers

MixFilter: I'm looking for free online music mixes to help get me & my collective crew through the most strenuous & stressful part of the year. Tell me about your favorite mix blog &/or website. [more inside]
posted by jammy on Sep 4, 2009 - 10 answers

I'm trying to find a way to stream some Mp3s of songs (about 60) on a website (completely self created) from a host/website but I am unable to find anything similar to Flickr or Youtube or ad infinitum for music. Is there something similar for audio? [more inside]
posted by spacelux on Aug 27, 2009 - 15 answers

How do different countries of the world consume media (TV, music, movies, etc)? [more inside]
posted by MoreForMad on Aug 16, 2009 - 3 answers

What's the best software for turning CDs into music files for any kind of player including Ipods and cellphones? [more inside]
posted by tonci on Jun 9, 2009 - 24 answers

I have been using Musicbrainz Picard for a few weeks now and I am running into a consistance problem with certain files. When I use the Scan function it finds the most recent album which is almost always a compilation album. There is no way to change this default behavior and there is now way to automatically give you a list of all albums this song appears on so you can choose. Is there another free/open source implimentation of MusicBrainz or a Picard Plugin that fixes this problem?
posted by Bonzai on Apr 15, 2009 - 2 answers

So I basically just want to give out some of my music for free online. [more inside]
posted by saul wright on Mar 30, 2009 - 11 answers

Is there a program/script that will automatically create a beatmatched mix a from a folder filled with techno mp3s? [more inside]
posted by jcruelty on Mar 12, 2009 - 5 answers

Assuming I am true and honest to my word and delete the music from my hard drive once I sell it, how can I legally make money selling old music that I have legally downloaded and no longer want? [more inside]
posted by Effigy2000 on Jan 12, 2009 - 10 answers

I have a few hundred jazz albums on MP3 in my iTunes library. I'd to add the names of the sidemen on the albums to the MP3's comment tags, but I'd rather not enter the info manually, for obvious reasons. Is there any form of script or program that exists that will do this for me -- perhaps pulling from Amazon, or some other source? (Prefix this with, "Hey, Lazyweb," if desired.) [more inside]
posted by tweebiscuit on Nov 6, 2008 - 5 answers

looking for social science lectures and/or radioshow interviews [more inside]
posted by figTree on Oct 16, 2008 - 10 answers

I would like to create a podcast that involves me playing music (mp3s) and talking about it. One minor problem: I know absolutely nothing about podcasts. [more inside]
posted by the bricabrac man on Sep 1, 2008 - 9 answers

Looking for mp3s to use for my alarm clock. I'd like to wake up to a 5-10 minute track that progressively gets louder so that my awakening feels more natural. [more inside]
posted by alligatorman on Aug 19, 2008 - 29 answers

I have a website on which I have mp3s. This month, according to my usage stats, I had a bunch of mp3 downloads -- way more that usual. They show up on my stats page under the heading of "Top 10 of 341 Total URLs By KBytes." Are these necessarily people downloading my mp3s, or do spiders or crawlers or whatever they're called hit these links as well? [more inside]
posted by Karlos the Jackal on Jul 31, 2008 - 5 answers

Data Backup Filter: I have about 6TB (yes TB, not GB) of data. I need to back it up BEFORE it crashes. I also need a good way to share it on the network. How can I do this? Details within... [more inside]
posted by arniec on Jul 8, 2008 - 28 answers

My Macbook Pro was stolen. Just about the only non-shitty thing about it is that I keep my huge iTunes library on an external drive. All the music files are on the drive, but the data files (library.xml) were on the stolen Mac. I have another Macbook. What's the simplest way I can rebuild my library on it? [more inside]
posted by grumblebee on May 8, 2008 - 13 answers

How should I rip my cds...mp3 or aif? [more inside]
posted by citybuddha on Apr 20, 2008 - 18 answers

Why are some of the high resolution MP3s I've encoded recently (at 320 kbps) still turning out with traces of faint, but audible jitter? [more inside]
posted by saulgoodman on Apr 5, 2008 - 9 answers

How can I archive my music? [more inside]
posted by drezdn on Jan 16, 2008 - 17 answers

How would I go about posting some files? I want to ask metafilter about the last 16 songs in my itunes library that I can't identify, but I don't know how to go about putting those files up so you all can get to them. What's the easiest way to do this? [more inside]
posted by rileyray3000 on Dec 4, 2007 - 15 answers

Song goes something like "babbbyyy letsss groooveee" [more inside]
posted by aleahey on Nov 18, 2007 - 12 answers

My wife is going to kill me. While "fixing" her computer (g5 Macintosh running Leopard), I managed to move 20,000 of her mp3s to the trash. I actually thought I as moving one genre with "select-all", but apparently I moved the entire frickin' library. She doesn't know yet, but it's only a matter of time. I have not yet deleted these files. All 20,000 (well, 19,868) are sitting in the trash can. There's no "restore to previous location" type option, though. Help! Is there anything I can do? Is my only option to have iTunes re-import the entire lot? [more inside]
posted by jdroth on Nov 13, 2007 - 29 answers

Why won't my mp3s and videos play on my computer...at all? [more inside]
posted by champthom on Oct 31, 2007 - 12 answers

I'm thinking of nuking my hard drive and reinstalling Windows XP. This means iTunes, which sits on my C Drive, will obviously be wiped and reinstalled. If I do this, will I lose all the star ratings and other individual settings I have for my mp3s (which are stored on another partition that I won't be wiping)? If so, is there some file in the iTunes directory or somwhere else that I could back up and add to my new iTunes installation so I don't have to individually rate every mp3 I have all over again?
posted by Effigy2000 on Oct 31, 2007 - 5 answers

Syncing music between two computers help! Here's the setup... [more inside]
posted by bsexton on Oct 26, 2007 - 7 answers

trying to locate a Korean song called SARANG HAESEOYO and/or by musician called KIM HYUN SIK 9or SHIK) [more inside]
posted by Postroad on Sep 28, 2007 - 3 answers

Help me burn my 100GB of Mp3s to DVD in some sort of organized fashion! (Mac) [more inside]
posted by anonymoose on Aug 17, 2007 - 8 answers

Why can't I edit the track information of certain MP3s I've downloaded in iTunes? [more inside]
posted by Bromius on Jun 18, 2007 - 6 answers

I love podcasts, but it very difficult to find new, quality programs. I am looking for broadcasted material on a range of topics - including philosophy, the mind, avantgarde arts and lectures by creative, original thinkers (see my list of current podcasts for detail)... Can you help? [more inside]
posted by 0bvious on May 31, 2007 - 20 answers

FirefoxMp3Filter: Why are clicked mp3s opening in Quicktime instead of giving me an option to save? [more inside]
posted by bullitt 5 on Jan 13, 2007 - 6 answers

iTunes 7 playlist help. I have music located on two different HD's on my computer, I imported the first batch of music okay and it added playlists for each album/artist automatically, but not for the second batch of music I imported. How can I have iTunes make another batch of artist/album playlists?
posted by Mijo Bijo on Nov 23, 2006 - 6 answers

Winamp playlist help. I have a bunch of playlists in Winamp, but frequent re-organization of my music directory has broken all the links. Is there a way for Winamp to find the new locations of the files so I don't have to re-assign hundreds of songs, or, barring that, is there a smarter music library program that will do the work and can import Winamp playlists?
posted by schroedinger on Oct 27, 2006 - 3 answers

Is it legal to sell iPods preloaded with music? [more inside]
posted by keswick on Sep 12, 2006 - 17 answers

I just bought a new laptop for school. How do I transfer my music/video library from my old computer to my new one? [more inside]
posted by dward88 on Aug 29, 2006 - 11 answers

How much or how little and in what ways should one consider breaking up the "Rock" genre when tagging MP3s? [more inside]
posted by Witty on Jul 26, 2006 - 20 answers

A little band called Ensimismada.... [more inside]
posted by evariste on Jun 7, 2006 - 27 answers

iTunesFilter: When I type in the search bar, how can I get iTunes to search songs' comments areas as well as the other areas? [more inside]
posted by booksandlibretti on Jan 24, 2006 - 8 answers

Any suggestions for programs that can turn up the volume on quiet mp3s for Mac Tiger?
posted by dgaicun on Jan 5, 2006 - 16 answers

I enjoy early American popular music (say up until the late 1920s), and especially period recordings of the same. I have about a dozen CDs compiling this music, and have downloaded other songs from alt.binaries.sounds.*. I'm looking for other sources of free mp3s of early American popular music. (Don't fret about copyright issues: the stuff I'm looking for is old enough that it's in the public domain.) I'd also love recommendations for modern(ish) recordings of these old songs. I know Garrison Keillor performs some from time-to-time (and just did on his last broadcast, for example), and I know of Joan Morris/William Bolcome and Jody Dall'Armi.
posted by jdroth on Oct 2, 2005 - 19 answers

Is there an easy way to create a text file of all of the folders I have in a directory? [more inside]
posted by graventy on Aug 20, 2005 - 12 answers

When I'm looking at a song in my iTunes library is there a way to tell which of my playlists it appears on? I can't seem to find a way, or an answer on Google. (4.0.1 if it matters.)
posted by OmieWise on Aug 16, 2005 - 9 answers

I have tapes of interviews that I'm paying to have transcribed. Some interviews were done in public places and have background noise. I'll be charged more for those. Unless I can somehow get the background noise off the MP3s.... [more inside]
posted by duck on Jun 11, 2005 - 7 answers

I want to move a chunk of my music collection from a folder on one drive to a folder on another, without losing metadata in iTune's library and without reconnecting each and every file. [more inside]
posted by Tuwa on May 9, 2005 - 13 answers

I need a webhost who can turn the other way to things to media that is sort of the grey zone of legality. [more inside]
posted by Hot Like Your 12V Wire on May 7, 2005 - 5 answers

Rediscovering emusic - any mefiers use emusic? What are some stellar tracks or albums you've gotten there? [more inside]
posted by dobbs on Apr 12, 2005 - 11 answers

Can anyone recommend a good cheap car CD player with CDR, MP3, an audio-in jack, or some combination of the three? [more inside]
posted by graventy on Apr 7, 2005 - 5 answers

Remotely controlling iTunes / WinAmp on Win2000 with a PDA?
posted by skwm on Feb 10, 2005 - 4 answers

My iPod is full. I used to encode MP3s at 128k, more recently VBR at 80%. Can AAC give me quality around the latter with a file size smaller than the former?
posted by krisjohn on Jan 14, 2005 - 8 answers