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How can I import MP3 tracks/folders into Windows Media Player?

How can I import MP3 tracks/folders into Windows Media Player so that they appear in anything other than the 'Other' folder?
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How can I detect errors (bleeps) in MP3s?

How could I automatically detect MP3 file errors that result in bleeps? In this example MP3 I can hear bleep at 0:02.
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How to tidy music mp3 files? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Auto-tagging MP3s I have thousands of MP3 files and it is really messy all over place. Some in drive E and F. There are a lot of duplicates files in many different ...
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Tuneup Media plugin for iTunes?

Do anyone have any experience with Tuneup Media plugin for iTunes? I have thousands of MP3 files and it is really messy all over place. Some in drive E and F. There are a lot of duplicates files in ...
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Software to analyze an MP3 file and determine its BPM

I'm building a personal running playlist. I managed to calculate the right BPM (beats per minute) for me through this article on LifeHacker. Now all I need to do is find which songs from my MP3 ...
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Matching ID3 Tags to Existing Files

I have a collection of ripped CDs that were transcoded to a very low bitrate. (and I lost the original MP3s) I'd like to re-rip the CDs to a higher bitrate, and apply the ID3 tags from the existing ...
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Batch compress mp3 while retaining file and directory structure to new target

I have a master directory of music which is organised using subdirectories. My new (cheap) MP3 only holds 8GB so I wish to make a reduced version of my music with a lower bitrate. Is there a free ...
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Previewing audio files in Windows Explorer

Is there any program that can play audio files by right click/mouse hover directly in Windows Explorer? *Update:*Please introduce other apps (if any).
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Cannot modify MP3 metadata

I cannot change the metadata on some MP3s in Windows 7. I change the information, but it is lost later. Also, in Windows Media Player, I cannot see the tagging information and I cannot seek in the ...
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Find music videos in bulk

I have a fairly large MP3 collection, that I would like to upgrade to a music video collection. Basically what I want to do is go through all my songs and find matching music videos. I plan on doing ...
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How do I embed album art in an MP3 in iTunes?

In each folder I have the cover art, for example: /Adele /Adele/21 /Adele/21/cover.jpg cover.jpg is the album art. How do I embed that into my MP3s in iTunes?
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How to store iTunes cover art as mp3 id tag?

iTunes shows nice cover arts for all my mp3 songs. Unfortunately most of them are stored in the iTunes data base and not as mp3 id tags. This makes them useless, if I use the mp3 files with other ...
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Windows 7 Media Player not playing MP3 files from USB drive

I have Windows 7. I plug in a USB stick containing MP3 files I open Windows Media Player and select the drive letter of my USB stick, I then see all my music nicely grouped into artist and album ...
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Windows 7 Media Player won't add MP3 files

I have a set of MP3 files that Windows Media Player just refuses to add to the library. They are placed in the standard My Music folder. I play them in media player. They just won't be listed in the ...
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Is there any free tools that allow my non unicode chinese to unicode chinese?

I have a bunch of chinese songs and the meta tags are written in like non-unicode chinese. It displays on my computer but only if I set the non-unicode locale to chinese. Is there a free program ...
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Searching for a sound snippet in audio files

I have several days' worth of recordings of a radio show, stored in a number of two-hour MP3 files. I am looking for one specific song that I'm fairly sure is somewhere in these recordings. It's an ...
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Mass MP3 audio file editor

Running Windows 7 64bit, I have a ton of MP3 audio files I would like to crop the same amount of seconds from the beginning of the audio, is there a Free application that can accomplish this? If no ...
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Audio file meta-data missing in explorer

I'm using Windows 7 (32bit) and currently found that all the meta-data in my audio-files shown missing in Explorer as well Windows Media Player, however, other players like Winamp, iTunes are ...
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Editing MP3 details in Windows 7

I've recently discovered an annoying problem with Windows 7: Windows Explorer and Windows Media Player cannot edit ID3 tags if the version used is 2.4 (and presumably above, and sometimes even v2.3 - ...
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Which Windows mp3 player software can be installed without administrator rights?

On my company computer running Windows 7, I don't have administrator rights, so both iTunes and Winamp refuse to install. Is there any decent mp3 player software I can install anyway? Bonus points for ...
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unstable / variating sound level (volume) within same song / clip

I have a pretty standard Acer desktop (I guess a predecessor of the X5900 model). when playing mp3 / radio / youtube clips, the sound level is changing WITHIN the clip, highly annoying. in the case ...
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Micro sound breaks/interrupts on Windows 7

I've been experiencing strange behavior recently. When listening to mp3 or watching movie or whatever that uses sound, I get micro breaks in sound. It's like it hangs or cuts a fragment for about ...
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software to create timed music 3m 1m 3m

I am looking for a program that will allow me to create a sort of training CD. Something that will let me take a bunch of songs and let me limit them to 3 minutes (maybe more or maybe less) and have ...
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How to remove album art from a file in Windows Media Player 12

Windows Media Player 12 (Windows 7) has added some very wrong album art files on some of my files. How can I remove the album art without having to replace them?
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How do I search for a comment tag inside mp3 on windows 7?

How can I search for mp3 files that have the phrase "good" Inside the comment tag. I tried to search for it in the Windows 7 search bar. I typed comment:"good" and it give me bad results. I want just ...
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How do I search for a comment tag inside mp3 on windows 7? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I search for a comment tag inside mp3 on windows 7 ? hello i want to search for mp3 files that have the phrase "good" Inside the comment tag. i try to search ...
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Windows Media Player 12 Library import keeps dying

I cannot get WMP 12 to import my library. I have searched around various forums and tried all the common solutions like disabling Media Sharing, deleted my %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Media Player ...