I rarely reply on here. But I wanted to take the time to say Thank you Giveawayoftheday and Zortam. This is a very helpful tool. It made organizing my music collection quick and easy. And by that I don't mean the AUTOMATIC selections, I mean the ability to change information and copy/paste album covers and various selective options. I have a lot of music in my collection that I have wrote and recorded of my own. I'm no pro and make no money at it, but it was really easy to make changes to my song files.

I do have a couple of suggestions and wanted to point out a minor thing that might be a bug, not sure though. If you select "SHOW IDV3v2" which seems to be the default on editing information for the song files and select save, it saves just fine, but after doing so if you select "SHOW IDV3v1" some songs don't show some of the information on top, in the file editing box it shows it, so in "SHOW IDV3v1" at that point if you just select Save nothing happens, but after doing so if you click "SHOW IDV3v2" to change the screen and then click back on "SHOW IDV3v1" the information shows that it has been corrected. Maybe a simple fix would be an auto refresh feature after editing. Which may already be an option, maybe I missed it.

Also, I wanted to suggest to Zortam adding an equalizer, if the program had that I would probably use it as my only music player. For now I use MusicBee.

Thanks again for a great giveaway, and I am not complaining I am very thankful and happy to have gotten this program as a giveaway. I just felt this information might help.

Could not install gotd: Failed to launch the program (tried XP and WIN8, 64bit)....

Any idea?

Downloading and registering was a cinch. I have a collection of about 1500 MP3's so I wanted to check this program for a couple of reasons.
It searched for some of my missing tags and found most of them. I then tried it for equalizing and it worked pretty good there. Crashed a couple of times when I tried it on 500 songs at once but it did do the job.
Only problem is I couldn't get it to save to a file other than it's own extension. Will probably do it if I work at it.
I like this program and will continue using it.
Thank you GOTD and Zortam for this program.

I downloaded and installed the software but it didn't register the software. I am running windows 8.1 on a brand new laptop. Thanks in advance for any help i can get.

I recently purchased the lifetime version after trialling a giveaway version, do I qualify for the extra free license for a friend? How is it obtained?

downloaded, installed, and registered easily. i.e., it automatically registers to gaotd, no bothering with copying and pasting numbers, sending emails, or any of those other things we often have to do, so that is a plus.

although i'd looked at the preview of how to use the program, it was too small for me to see and therefore wasn't helpful.

it wasn't immediately intuitive and was a tiny bit frustrating to begin with (it filled the screen and i had to figure out how to make it smaller).

i wanted to use the cd ripper part. i like to rip my audio books (lots of cd's) to put to my mp3 player and couldn't quickly figure out how to do that so i just went back to my old standard 'freeRip'. i'll probably try again later with this, but i just wanted to get my job done so i stayed with what i know since it wasn't quick/easy/immediately.

Does this app (or any of the other mentioned on this thread) support renaming a bunch of MP3 files in the format of number-songname, and sorting by artist? I have a folder with about 500 songs which are currently in no specific order and I'd like to sort them by artist, without actually including the artist name in the filename. Is this possible?

Zortam was helpful in locating lyrics that I was unable to discover through Mr. Google. Otherwise I find Tagscan incredibly flexible for editing tags (far easier to use than mp3Tag).

Hello,

You can choose to have a free software, or free commercial program for $19.95 or something else. But you should know
for quality software (I' mean know what I'm talking about) we need you(our customers) to support future development.
If not you will alway can choose a free software.

If you wish to help Zortam development buy one and we will give you are one more free license for one or your friends. It's not about free software which model I prefer but honestly we need also money for serious development.

You can visit us at our buy page and we are giving discount of 60% for lifetime version. And you can be sure Zortam will respond on your question because it's all about music. Isn't it? We are sorry that we can not be freeware because we live for living about sales from our program.

Here is the link:
http://www.zortam.com/purchase.html

Thank you,

Zortam

Actually quite a nice program with lots of good features. I tried out version 13 some years ago but version 19 is a whole different and way better software.

- I especially like that it can download lyrics, something MP3Tag can't. Alas, it can't download them automatically in a batch, you have to do for every single song manually.

- Sadly the program can't handle unicode. I have tons of music from Asia and I only get "gibberish" when adding such a file.

- The GUI isn't my cup of tea, either. Most skins are clones of old Mac software. I had to use a skin named "Vista" to get one that looks at least a bit decent and "Windows"-like.

- Something a lot of software does and that I really hate. It saves it's data(base) in C:User and not in a sub directory of the program itself or a user defined directory. My C: drive is a rather small SSD and stuffed. I really, really hate it when software uses my valuable space on C: without me giving an option to change the path.

Deinstallation went without problems.

Zortam Mp3 Media Studio
Download and Installation ok , activation via setup.exe
Runs smoothly - Win 7 32-bit .
No " infestation " detectable ( Avast , Malwarebytes , Norton Power Eraser , Spybot S & D )
German language setting at installation
Full Screen Mode
Surface & Steering clear and understandable
Complex program , training needed
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Notes:
http://www.chip.de/downloads/MusicBrainz-Picard_18114983.html
http://www.chip.de/downloads/Streamwriter_43007152.html
http://www.heise.de/download/picard-picardtagger-1154653.html

regards
oompoop

GOTD Thanks for today's gift.

Wait appreciate your post...you need to add that the 3 S/W are free and 2 open source if am not mistaken.

If you want a one-stop shop to manage mp3 files, this application is reasonably good. But, I found a few applications to be better than this program. As a power user, I ended up using a combination of Foobar2000, mp3tag and music brainz picard. Here's my reasons,

1. It was easier to use 3 apps than one app
2. Foobar2000 and mp3tag work with all audio file formats that I know of, not just mp3 files
3. Foobar2000 can verify the integrity of my music collection with a single click (including multiple file formats like FLAC, WAV, etc)
4. Music Brainz Picard can automatically get meta-data updates for all of my music. It will grade the quality of the meta-data in my existing files (green = good, yellow = ok, red = needs fixing)
5. I have simple commands in mp3tag to rename music files based on meta-data and vice versa. I can also run commands over all of my meta-data (eg. change all ampersand (&) to the word 'and', capitalise each word, convert numbers like 9 to the word 'nine')
6. Using Foobar2000, I can do cool stuff like sorting my music into directories using artist, album, genre (eg. Rock, Instrumental, etc)
7. I can normalise the volume of all of my music using Foobar2000.

Some of these things (eg. normalising volume, fixing meta-data) are in Zortram. Things like compatibility with FLAC, transcoding to formats like Apple's AAC/M4A, verifying music files, directory sorting, etc are not possible with Zortram (that I could find). I love that with mp3tag, you can select 20 files and change the Genre in 1 go.

TL;DR - I ended up using Foobar2000, mp3tag and music brainz picard because they did more and I found them easier to use than Zortram.

FYI:

The last version offered via GOTD was 18.05 on September 02, 2014. Although I wasn't able to find details on each update, here is the list of updates and the date that they were released (to show the amount of activity.)

Zortam Mp3 Media Studio version history

Jun 04, 2015 19.25
May 21, 2015 19.20
May 05, 2015 19.15
Apr 16, 2015 19.10
Mar 31, 2015 19.05
Mar 17, 2015 19.00
Feb 28, 2015 18.80
Feb 12, 2015 18.75
Jan 20, 2015 18.70
Jan 08, 2015 18.65
Dec 22, 2014 18.60
Dec 03, 2014 18.55
Nov 12, 2014 18.51
Nov 05, 2014 18.50
Oct 20, 2014 18.20
Oct 07, 2014 18.15
Sep 17, 2014 18.10
Aug 25, 2014 18.05