Fixing badly tagged albums:

iTunes:
Manually update the artist and album title for each album.
Manually update the track name and number for every single track of your 200gb m
usic collection
Pray to god nothing bad ever happens, because iTunes refuses to properly write I
Dv3 tags, it likes to store local data, which sounds good in a 'It's not editing
the music files so I can always revert if something goes wrong way', but is act
ually horrible in the 'If I ever lose the metadata stored in the iTunes folder I
am absolutely epicly ****ed' way.
Foobar:
Select an album, choose auto-number, auto-data and auto-capitalisation. Type in
one line corresponding to the file name like this:
01 mEtAzOa CORMORANT {[2009]} scavenger's feast.mp3
is:
%tracknumber% %album% %artist% {[%date%]} %title%
Foobar does everything automatically and makes it look good. All data is written
to IDv3 tags so as long as you back up your music collection regularly (not exa
ctly hard), nothing bad can ever happen.
Adding new music
iTunes:
Select 'Add Folder' and select the folder. Wait for a ****illion years as it doe
s stupid stuff such as 'Determine Gapless Playback Information', which appears t
o do absolutely nothing as transitions sound bad in iTunes either way.
Try to use the 'find album art' feature, scratch that, the only metal it can fin
d is Metallica, and if you're adding Metallica to your library iTunes suits you
fine anyway.
Find some album art of google image search, save it, go into iTunes, choose albu
m information, then you have to drag the album art into a small box that is conv
eniently positioned in the same place windows likes to open explorer windows, me
aning you have to move the window every time and can't have it fullscreen.
Oh, did I mention that your mp3 is copied into the iTunes folder and has everyth
ing done to it there, so it uses twice as much space (160gb of music instead of
80, great...) and if anything happens you have to do ALL of this again.
Foobar:
Add Folder, it takes about 1 second. Download an album art off google images, fo
obar automatically finds it as long as it's got a keyword in it that you can set
yourself (something like 'cover' or 'art').
Equalizing your music library
iTunes:
Equalizes by track only, ambient and acoustic tracks will be raised 50 times lou
der than other tracks, so every intro track will blast your ears to pieces, you
can officially never use shuffle again for fear of your eardrums. Equalization i
nformation is also stored locally in the iTunes folder instead of written into t
he mp3, so if you update iTunes or your HDD crashes or whatever then that's anot
her 30 minutes of waiting to add onto your recovery process.
Foobar:
Equalizes by album, so the whole album will be of equal-as-intended volume. Shuf
fle without fear. Can either be equalized via ReplayGain or directly, so it does
n't have to be redone on recovery.
Verdict: iTunes is for hipsters and is only suitable if you have less than 5 alb
ums or if you're somehow immune to computer failure, which, if you're using iTun
es, you're not.