I'm looking for an Android app suggestion.

[raspabalsa]

Actually, you don't have to play by folders if those folders are albums. Any music player, including the stock music player, will find and identify the albums and offer to play the albums, or let you make playlists out of songs on the albums.

I don't understand, but maybe it's because I've never organized my music in albums and libraries. How do I tell what songs form part of an album? Only by the ID tag? If this information is missing then there is no way to detect the albums, or is something else used here?

[jigwashere]

I haven't used iTunes in a long time, but Windows Media Player 11 does a nice job of ripping and organizing CDs, automatically adding album art and metadata with album info. I've run into a few issues with some odd albums regarding the metadata, but it's pretty rare.

[Hook]

I don't understand, but maybe it's because I've never organized my music in albums and libraries. How do I tell what songs form part of an album? Only by the ID tag? If this information is missing then there is no way to detect the albums, or is something else used here?

Yes, basically, if you don't have good tags, you are at the mercy of playing folders or using playlists.

I long ago went through my music library with a Tag editor (big project) and these days rippers do a good job with the tags, and buying from Amazon or iTunes give you good tags to begin with.

[raspabalsa]

Yes, it's the same with Poweramp. When I press and hold a folder, I get the options to Enqueue, Play, Shuffle, Add to Playlist, and Delete (Delete can be disabled in settings).

And now I'm regretting even more missing Poweramp's sale I'm stuck with MixZing's free version.

Yes, basically, if you don't have good tags, you are at the mercy of playing folders or using playlists.

I long ago went through my music library with a Tag editor (big project) and these days rippers do a good job with the tags, and buying from Amazon or iTunes give you good tags to begin with.

I feared so.... I have several thousand songs I've ripped over one and a half decade, I can't even imagine how long it would take me to add tags to all of them.

[jigwashere]

I feared so.... I have several thousand songs I've ripped over one and a half decade, I can't even imagine how long it would take me to add tags to all of them.

Start to Finish Guide to Whipping Your Music's Metadata into Shape

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And now I'm regretting even more missing Poweramp's sale I'm stuck with MixZing's free version.

Poweramp has a free version and, although I don't remember, I think I upgraded mostly to support the developer. I think the free version is pretty full featured, but maybe I don't remember right. I know it gives you full features for 14 days, so it may take awhile to figure out what its features are.

I feared so.... I have several thousand songs I've ripped over one and a half decade, I can't even imagine how long it would take me to add tags to all of them.

You might be surprised. If you just go for album and artist, and use batch tagging, as a side project you do as you have time, it can go pretty fast. here is a really good free tag editor that will even do things lke parse file names to tags and vice versa.

Mp3tag - the universal Tag Editor (ID3v2, MP4, OGG, FLAC, ...)

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Dang, how come Jig is so much faster than I am.

[raspabalsa]

Thanks for the links, I'll probably start this project sometime this decade or the next.

[jigwashere]

Dang, how come Jig is so much faster than I am.

Dual core processor.

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