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both WMP and helium do the old unknown artist and album thing. I found that out and lost 90 percent of the files it renamed. The directories were artist/album/ but it moved my files in the process and deleted the old directories. (I only got back / recognized 10 % and got so frustrated i deleted the rest in an act of <explenative> anger.) I used ant renamer but it isn't really up to the task i need it for, Helium seemed to be the best but slow, and even slower now i have a much larger collection.
Ask me about WMP 9..... lost some hair(and i don't have much) on that one...
I will try out id3 renamer, thanks for the reference.

I think with all the info in the tags bloating the DB there should be a mini/fast mode player<db> that just has the title/artist/album/genre and leaves the rest of the tag info alone. that way the DB could be much smaller, quicker to load, search, etc?
or several DB's, divided into ?? genres, ratings, a/b/c/etc??? and just load into memory the ones you are looking at?
So arn't you guys all glad I never got into programing? imagine the extra work cross updating all those DB's???
hmmmm, let's see, if you pay me 5 bucks a month, each of you, I promise never to do any coding, except maybe for microsoft....
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