Sorting out a collection of 1750 "albums"

[Mike48]

You mentioned JRiver Media Center. In general, tagging support in JRMC is excellent. Panes View (with Pane Tagging turned on) is especially useful for making mass changes. For example, in Panes view, you can set a column to display Composer, see all cuts with "Ludvig Beethoven", and change them to "Beethoven, Ludwig" or something else with a few clicks.

JRMC also supports mass tag changes by entering expressions in the corresponding entry fields of the Tagging Window. This is quite useful. I maintain a text file of expressions I use for common tasks (e.g., change "Op. x, No. y" to "Op.x/y"), so that I don't need to retype them.

I do find mp3tag easier to use when an editing task requires regular expression (e.g., wildcards). The regular expression syntax in JRMC is rather contorted; it is simpler in mp3tag.

I hope that helps.

Mike

P.S. I forgot to say, JRMC has "Undo" capability, so you are protected against errors in mass changes. Still, it's good to back up the music collection frequently.