I spent days trying to organise my collection of music (and still haven't suceeded). It's in many formats. In the past I've stripped metadata and just relied on file names, and file structure. I've later re-added it, due to helping playback on some devices. Tagging generally annoys me, and doesn't bring me much. The thing I'd quite like is sleeve notes, and good track info, who wrote the song, which artists played on it etc.

Anyway I have tried a mix of quodlibet/exfalso (with plugins), foobar2k(with wine), mp3tag, and shell scripts. Then I discovered beets, and thought wow that's great. Only to later forget about the application and return to the laborious task of sorting out my files. I rediscovered beets and tested it on a directory of music and was pretty impressed with the ease of it all and the results. Far easier than attempting it by hand.

Having said that the bit that takes me the longest is gathering up and organising orphans. If they are albums, I have to get them into order, then try and locate the tags. Or pepper the files with enough clues, for a tagger. It's all a bit of a yawn fest.

Which reminds me, I bothered to apply replay gain to most of my albums with foobar2k but that sometimes results with very quiet playback on some albums on one of my players at least. I then curse profusely, and just want to rip all of the metadata back out, or even just throw the lot away...