You may have heard of 411-Song: you call them with your cell phone, hold up the cell phone to music you’re listening to, and several seconds later, it texts you the name of that song. Pretty useful, considering how many times all of us have struggled to remember the name of a song.
While there appears to be software (Tunatic) that does something similar from your computer, I thought it would be more interesting if there was something to take an existing music file, figure out the Artist, Album, etc., and rename the file. Something to make it easy to organize and reorganize your music.
As it turns out, it exists and it’s really quite good: MusicBrainz. The software’s free, and they have versions that work on Windows, Mac, and Linux. They maintain an online database of all the music that the community has identified, and the software contacts that database to match your music file to the information they have. An additional surprise: it works for at least some classical and anime/j-pop music!
