MP3 Archiver

Most files on your computer contain a bit more than just data for their core purpose. For instance, music also contains all related details, such as title, artist, and album, even if the name isn’t properly written down. If you want to organize your music collection according to them, applications like MP3 Archiver make it an easy process.

You can go ahead and run the application right after the download is finished, because it doesn’t require installation to function. This enables you to carry it around on a USB flash drive to use on other computers as well, without worrying about the health status of the target PC, because registries are not modified.

On the visual side of things, features are stored in a classic window frame, with a large panel to show all detected files along with details like artist, title, filename, volume, and path. Two additional panels are there to show you files sharing the same artist, or title, in case you want to remove them from the list.

Files need to be added first, and this is easily done by selecting a folder from your computer through the browse dialog. It takes only a few seconds before the main window list gets filled up with items. A search engine allows you to quickly find a song of interest, and jump to it on the list.

Playback isn’t a built-in option, but there is the possibility to open a song in your default audio player. With the list ready, you can save all info in an index, which is basically a TXT file containing details shown in a list. However, you get the chance to specify what file characteristics to include in the new archive.

All things considered, we come to the conclusion that MP3 Archiver comes with good intentions, but the struggle you need to go through to even load the database, is not really worth the effort of obtaining a plain text file. Sure enough, the list can be customized, but it would have been useful to see at least an option to build a playlist file.