Music Collection Manager and Organizer - All-in-One - TheGodFather

The GodFather freeware music collection management software will bring order for the audio files scattered on your Hard Drive. You are able to rename tracks, update tags, restructure files on hard disk, create or merge play lists, encode-decode with various codecs, such as LAME/Ogg Vorbis/MpcEnc, export/import to/from file, play music, use freedb.org & allmusic.com databases, catalog your collection in a structured library ...

Among the software features are:

1. Batch files renaming
   -User defined Formats using Tag fields, File/Folder name or Tokens, Mpeg bitrate/mode as variables.
   -Powerful case conversion.
   -Replacement matrix.
   -Smart filters enable you to have only the files that are potentially wrong listed for renaming.
   -Undo function present.
   
2. Batch Tag update.
   -Supports both ID3v1 & ID3v2.
   -Supports Ogg Vorbis comments.
   -Supports APEv2 tags.
   -Select specific fields to be updated.
   -Use File/Folder tokens, Tag variables to create tag information.
   -Filter files by the existence of tags or even by the existence of specific fields.
   -Update either Tag or all of them.
   -Use of the replacement matrix.
   -Update tags by copying/moving or auto synchronizing one to the other.
   -Batch process of pictures/lyrics (export, delete or both).

3. Manual / single file editor.

4. Organize.
   -Easily create/merge play lists with preview support or simply find and listen to your favorite music.
   -Encode/decode your files with LAME,Ogg Vorbis or mpcenc.
   -Restructure the files on your hard disk (copy, move, or create shortcuts).
   -Find duplicate files using smart and aggressive detection.

5. Play your mp3’s.
   -Internal player with 16 band equalizer.
   -Display tag info/lyrics/pictures while playing, option to display pictures from folders.
   -Automatically search @allmusic.com.

6. Album/filename rename & update using freedb.org or www.allmusic.com, Amazon, and custom sites.
   -Full text search support (freeDb), Disk ID generated from the files in the folder or usage of the original CD-ROM supported.
   -Album/Artist filters (freeDb, text search).
   -Auto sort according to duration.
   -Auto match according to Tag/Filename.
   -Amazon image grabber.

7. Catalog your files in a powerful library.
   -Store cover art and up to 4 pictures per album.
   -Store detailed info for each artist like bio, and misc other info, pictures etc.
   -Use allmusic to retrieve the above data effortlessly.
   -Export to xls, HTML, play list files.

8. General
   -Search in local or network locations.
   -File mask support including wildcards (*?).
   -Sub folder support.
   -Smart ID3 Tag detection in case of both being present.

Download (from CNET): http://download.cnet.com/The-GodFather/3000-2141_4-10232548.html

Operate you iPod with ease of USB Drive with SharePod

It is a dream of every music player owner to be able to use its device as USB stick. It would be nice, if the iPod can be connected to the computer, and the songs and videos transfer between computer and player can be achieved with the same ease as transfer inside the computer. With no need to synchronize content of iPod with computer’s music and video library.

SharePod is application that makes the process easy and reliable. The new software version 3.8 has been released on April 2, 2008.

So, what is SharePod? SharePod 3 is a lightweight music management program for iPod. You can copy music and videos between your iPod and computers without any additional conversion and synchronization procedures and with no extra software installed.

Software is easy to use. Download SharePod and extract the contents of the zip file to your iPod drive. As this procedure is completed, your iPod will appear as a Removable Drive in My Computer when it is plugged in.

Program features:

1. You can copy songs and playlists from your iPod to your PC.
2. You can copy songs from a PC to your iPod with no need for iTunes.
3. Customize and optimize organization of copied files - you can choose your own folder and filename structure.
4. While software can be used without iTunes, if needed, integration with iTunes can be easily achieved - once you have copied music to your PC, you can easily add it to your iTunes library.
5. Software has built-in media player for your convenience.
6. Searching capabilities by various criteria: by Title, Artist, Album, Genre (or any combination).
7. You can create Winamp playlists from the music on your iPod so you can listen without copying the mp3 audio files to your computer.
8. iPod Network File Sharing - If you are on a network, and you enable the special feature, other users can run your copy of SharePod from their own computers, and download music directly from your iPod.
9. No messy install/uninstall process - SharePod is just a couple of files, and is running directly from the iPod, so you do not need to install anything in the computer you are using.
10. User-friendly and intuitive interface with drag-and-drop capabilities.

Link for downloading (from Tom's Guide): http://www.tomsguide.com/us/download/SharePod,0301-1954.html

Additional Reading:
http://www.simplehelp.net/2007/07/06/how-to-use-sharepod-to-copy-files-to-and-from-your-ipod-in-windows/
http://jeff-dev.blogspot.com/2008/04/sharepod-38-released.html
http://www.freewarefiles.com/Sharepod_program_26104.html