Qoobar

Music enthusiasts have always set up album collections to carry on the pride of their favorite bands. With most media nowadays being stored on computers, customization and organizing your music collection reached new levels. Using applications such as Qoobar you can easily load songs in order to properly edit tags to make your library clean and organized.

At a first look, the application manages to make a good impression through its well-structured and intuitive interface. A side panel provides quick access to all folders on your computer in order to identify songs fast. If that's not enough, a built-in search engine is sure to do the trick. The rest of the space is taken up by a list of all items you import, along with details gathered by the application.

Editing is as easy as can get, with available tags enlisted below the main table of contents, with fields being filled simply by inputting values. What's more, you can also include front and back covers, but there's no possibility to have the application search on the Internet for album arts.

Amongst the details you can include in songs, needless to say that you find basic fields such as artist and album, but there are also some advanced fields like orchestra, conductor, copyright, mood, rating, and even URL. Saving is instantly done and depending on the way you wish to organize your collection, you can work with multiple tabs to batch edit by genre, for example.

The application also comes equipped with a solid set of options that can make the whole tagging process more efficient. Each of the available fields can be set to auto-complete according to the file's metadata, with the possibility to manage lists of elements to include in each criteria, such as lists of artists or albums.

Tag writing can be managed, with several options that let you choose which types of tags to read for MP3 files, OGG, and define criteria for ID3v1 tags. The application lets you set an external player that can process your files so you can enjoy favorite tunes as they get organized.

To sum it up, Qoobar is a powerful organizing utility that enthusiasts will surely appreciate. It gets you quickly up and running thanks to its intuitive design, and available edit fields let you include nearly everything there is to know, from basic to specialized details. What's more, creating a database of tags significantly reduces the time needed to fill in all info.