Organizing my music

Meister

I recently got an iPod, but when I used iTunes for the first time I learned that almost all my music was mislabeled. Lots of the songs have "Band name - title" as the title, have no genre or a completely wrong genre, and have no album name or "Limewire" as the album name. Also, only a few out of 1700 have any album art. Is there any easy way to fix this? Maybe a program that scans through and corrects it? Or am I screwed and have to do it manually?

Unicron

Not entirely manual, but certainly not automatic either. For tagging, I would definitely recommend Easy Tag. Free, open-source and pretty nifty to boot. It allows you to search through a couple of databases, but this will generally only work for full albums.

As for cd-art, easy tag allows you to add it to the id3 tag, but finding the pictures will, I fear, be a manual thing.

Meister

Seems nifty. I'm having some trouble installing it though. The downloads section has a bunch of libraries to download, and when I go to download those I'm taken to a sourceforge page with a whole bunch of .rpm files for each. Am I supposed to download each of these .rpm files individually and put them in the same folder or something?

Unicron

This is what you're looking for if you're on Windows.

contraband

If the music can be found on the iTunes store and it is properly labeled, iTunes can apply album art.

TechBoy

I would recommend MusicBrainz (I've mostly used the Classic Tagger, not the Picard one. Both should work, I guess Picard is the newer version)

It can scan through your files, compare them to its database, and rename/retag for you.

Works best on files mostly correctly tagged and sort of organized, but it can't hurt to give it a shot.