Ok.. moved all 150+gb of muisc to SSD drive. Doesn't RUN any FASTER so I would give it a 3 out 10 for performance. It doesn't do a good job handling ZERO sized files. I had about 15 total files that were "corrupted" according to the program. All but 5 were ok and played in my MP3 players. The 5 that it crashed on showed blank except for file name and size. (zero). Once removed, it scanned without crashing. SO.. to the developers. You need to have this program continue with scan (and finish it) when it hits a speed bump. and speaking of spead. This program is WAY TO SLOW on a system such as mine.
Win7 pro/64, 16gb ram, 750hybrid drive, 250ssd, 2tb 7200 data drive, Intel i7-2600k @ 3.4ghz. ATI 6670 video 2/2gb ddr5 ram. SO, I might not have the fastest machine out there but I got no performance boost going from an external 1tb hard drive 3.0usb to a SSD drive.

For #16
http://jajuk.info/index.php/Main_Page
It's free and can handle scattered collections of any size.
I don't care for the look of this one and it dosen't do anything the freebie I just mentioned can't do. Thanks GOTD for todays offer, but I will be uninstalling it.

Here are some answers to a few questions that other GOTD members posted above. I haven't decided if I want this one or not but can always go to their site later and get the free version.

Link to the comparison of free vs paid version (though I don't know that it exactly answers the question of the difference, if any, from the free version and what GOTD version is/are)

http://www.kcsoftwares.com/index.php?kmp3

Link to the tutorials that kc provides
http://www.kcsoftwares.com/doc/kmp3/

Link to the forums if your questions weren't answered in the tutorials
http://www.kcsoftwares.com/forum/

Hello - downloaded and installed the program just fine. The install was a bit quirky having to avoid all the 'freebie addons', however, I was able to work my way through it. The program has an odd interface but you can get used to it. It, in one package, does what it would normally take several to do so I do like the 'swiss army knife' type approach. But, keep in mind that a swiss army knife is not really a substitute for the real parts (corkscrew, screwdrivers, etc.) when you really use such tools a lot.

That being said, there were questions above about handling thousands of MP3's. Been there, done that, tried everything. The simple best two cataloging programs for large collections are Helium Music Manager (low price) and Visual CD (free). They don't have all the 'tools' of the swiss army knife but do allow massive (I mean massive!) collections to be databased and properly handled as well as launched and listened to. No editing but both allow you to add that feature through an external program.

Enjoy and thumbs up for KCSoftwares and GAOTD!

@21 Dan benDan: The Album Artist tag is not officially defined by standard, but is consistently used by iTunes, Winamp, and Windows Media Player. Album Artist for a compilation album (e.g.; Grammy Nominees) is generally "Various Artists". This allows all the tracks for the album to be shown together, while still having information about who performed individual tracks.

http://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2010/10/12/how-to-use-album_artist/

I generally organize multi-disc sets by adding "disc 1" to the album title for the first disc, etc.

MP3tag, Windows Media Player, and others can automatically search for album information from online databases. This can be a big help in organizing your collection. MP3tag can also create tags from filenames and vice versa.

I cannot install until very late today, as I am not at my main comp, so I would very much appreciate if someone could tell me how this compares to free MusicBee?
Would it give me anything MusicBee does not?

Installs and starts OK under Win7x64. I can "scan" for folders, but the "files" tab opens a "Files Selection" window with no controls, nor right-click options - I can put files in, but never remove them, not even by running an operation, not even by closing/restarting the program. "?" for help goes to a web page with most items greyed out, and the "getting started" link doesn't work. Sorry, don't have time to deal with this.

Re post #9 by giovanni - Thanks for the alternatives. However, does one need all of these as opposed to the one offered today? Much obliged for your response.

Will

Summary: AudioGrail, winamp and windows explorer show different tags
Description:
Winamp and windows explorer show an info field called Album Artist where AudioGrail shows no info field.
Windows explorer shows Contributing Artists where AudioGrail shows no info field.
Winamp shows Artist and so does AudioGrail.

The contents of AudioGrail Artist = winamp Album Artist
The contents of winamp Artist = windows explorer Contributing Artists

I am confused!

What is Album Artist ? Is it the person who did the artwork for the album or the overall artist/group for the album?

If it is the overall artist/group then what do I do if it is 'Various Artists' ?

I am trying to organize folders by artist/album/title but AudioGrail wants to make a separate folder for each artist in the album.

Should there be a field in AudioGrail named Album Artist ?
Should AudioGrail organize by 'Various Artists' as Album Artist rather than the existing Artist field?

Should I just forget trying to organize my music?

An additional question. What do I do with multi disc sets? Right now the program doesn't know about disc number, resulting in multiple track with number = 1 etc. Any plans to handle that?

Nice one!

MP3 Toolkit is another free alternative:
http://www.mp3toolkit.com/

Not a problem with the installation on OS 7 64. tried the duplicate remover and edited some tags... was flawless.... but I read the other comments first and knew some of the pitfalls. Thanks for the comments and for the very good program.

Forgive me if I'm wrong.
Above description ".. is the swiss army knife for everything that is related to audio files ..".
Where's the 'editng function' ?
Every 'swiss army knife' I have seen has a 'cutting tool' to allow you 'to cut articles' up.
All it appears to be an advanced 'cataloging' tool. For that it seems very good, but not a 'complete, do almost everything' peice of software.
P.S. It would be nice to have one piece of 'good software', rather than having to start different programs to enable you to complete the full variety of tasks that are sometimes required.

software asking for serial & license #'s. Can't find the serial #, can anyone help?

Looking for help here, Opinions welcomed! Is this the best file for me? I have 5-6 thousand mp3s, but they are all over the place in various folders. A few folders for my old ZUNE, another few folders of selcted songs or artists...other folders I foolishly kept adding new stuff to instead of adding it all to one main folder.

Many are duplicate mp3s that have the same song/album in more than one folder. I alos have various backups on 3-4 external drives, but none with all. That said, would someone offer an opinion if this program will help me get my MP3s straigtened out? I guess I am a mps "hoarder" like on TV except my hoarded stuff are MP3s thrown everywhere. Thanks in advance for your suggestion!

Looks interesting but I have a question: how does this prog find duplicates? By looking at file name only or does it do any other analysis?

@ 3
Thank you BuBBy for correcting those wrong accusations.
Yes the developer gives the possibility to download RK, but the warning on the site and the explanation are very clear. You even have the choice to download the NORK version. (No RK added!) - the icon is a circle with RK crossed out in the middle. The meaning of the icons is explained at the bottom of the page.
But - and this is the difficult part - you must be able to read!
It seems not everybody is able to do that.

@ 2 - marcoscu- And then, why do you download from other sources?
The giveaway download is on this site. This is the only approved Giveawayoftheday; this file is scanned.

I really wished there would be only one day now and then, when no "expert" cries fire - though everything is fine.

Sigh!
graylox

Oh, not to forget, thanks to GOTD and KC Softwares for the programme.

I use another dup finder program that works well for me called Duplicate Cleaner. Though it doesn't do as much, it's faster in scanning and finding then deleting dupes. I can live with the tags I have.
My system: i7/2600k @ 3.4ghz, 16gb ram, 750gb hybrid drive and 2tb 7200rpm data drive w/Win7 Pro 64.

I walked away after a few minutes. It was scanning over 150gb of MP3's in ONE folder on a external 1tb usb 3.0 drive. As of this writing, it's making a second pass as it crashed on the 1st with the following error:
Error [12-08-11 09:06:34] Loading stopped because of corrupted file : F:\Music\Paul McCartney & Wings\Standing Stone\13 - Trance.mp3

The file plays fine. So, I renamed it and waiting to see if it crashes again. But if it doesn't I'll save a spot on my drive for a more stable MP3 software package and keep using my dupe software instead. Next.

Easily installed and running on Win 7 - 64.
The help files need a lot of help. Virtually non-existent! Not sure what the cleaner did bit I lost 7 files after running them. Actually they were sent to my trash file. But why???

#4, Nightspell. When I scan my files the program runs through all of the folders I choose and then reported how many found and how many were corrupted. No stopping after finding one corrupt file. Clicked on the Log and it listed the 3 corrupted files and then clicked on the Files button and was able to delete those three files.

The problem I encounted: When I tried to rescan the folders it reported the same three files as corrupted. I was able to rescan the program (without closing it) multiple times and it reported the corrupt files even though they were deleted. I checked using Windows Explorer. I had to exit the program and rescan the folders before it reported no corrupt files.

Reg'ed easily,seems to work as advertised but I haven't tried all features yet. I do like the way they put all tools in side panel instead of a multi-tabbed options button.Even though it's just another converter I kinda like the simple set-up.Thanks GOTD&KC SOFTWARE

Pretty decent app designed to manage your MP3 files which does its job pretty flawlessly!!

It even sports a sort of CLEANER in order to replace characters for files and tags

So if you own a vast collection of MP3 files this is a nice tool to add on your arsenal!


BEST (and in my view BETTER) FREEWARE ALTERNATIVES:

- The GodFather
http://www.jtclipper.eu/thegodfather/features.html

- (Portable) TagScanner
http://www.xdlab.ru/en/index.htm

Screenshots:
http://www.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/TagScanner-Screenshot-13791.html

- Mp3tag
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html

- Media Commander
http://www.vandi.ro/mediacommander.html

- CaDE 0.2
http://sites.google.com/site/cadesoftware/


Enjoy!!

I would be interested to know the difference between the GOTD version and the 'Free' version offered on the company website.

I have not rated this yet but one MAJOR flaw this program has and its annoying is when it scans you music folder/drive if it comes across a corrupt file it stops when in fact it should mark it in the log file and skip it. So you basically have to close the program go to the file it says is corrupt in the log file and delete it then start it back up and hope you dont have anymore corrupt files.
I will rate and leave a review of this once I am done testing it out.
@those that hit the thumbs down button you should at least give your reason why you gave it a thumbs down.

downloaded and installed without problem on my Vista HP 32bit laptop. For the last hour I've been playing around with it some including batch processing and organizing my entire music library of 25+gigs. I did have the program crash on me once but I just started it back up and everything was smooth from there on. Keeper

It's actually quite a useful and straightforward tool. Yes, there's a zillion free tools that you can combine to get the same results - but you can say that about those too. And yes, it is a look that you would expect from a freeware published in 1995, and it lacks sophistication of any kind. Yet it turns out to be quite a useful tool to me: everything I need is always one click away. It's probably not worth buying - considering the overcrowded field of free music utilities - but for a free tool (today), IMHO it's well worth a spin.

Installation and registration was really easy. It took awhile to realize that the tools weren't doing anything because I was only single clicking. When you do open a tool, you still have to do more clicks to get it to do anything. It does look like there are quite a few features, but it may take quite awhile to figure some of them out. There seems to be no standard help file. Help wants to take me to a web page that demands scripts be enabled. I didn't see anything so far that makes this a must-have piece of software.

The above comment is incorrect.
@2 - The terms and conditions of THIS Giveaway make no such mention - and the giveaway does NOT install "Relevant Knowledge". I suggest you only base your comments on the giveaway download provided by this website and NOT from downloads you obtain from other sites.

Read the T&C screen. It contains spyware with no opt out option...

'In order to provide this free download, RelevantKnowledge software, provided by TMRG, Inc., a comScore, Inc. company, is included in this download. This software allows millions of participants in an online market research community to voice their opinions by allowing their online browsing and purchasing behavior to be monitored.....'

There is no Gamegiveaway today, but there will be a good one from Alawar tomorrow. :)