Organizing My Music Library

[Snhr]

I've been looking for a reason to get programming in C++ again, and I realized for my to get my music library looking like I want it to, I'll have to somehow make my own organizer. Right now I'm just thinking about it, but there are some questions I would like to ask.

As of right now, the way I want to organize my music is main genre -> sub-genre -> artist -> album. I'm not looking to make anything fancy and for anybody else to use this so it's probably just going to be a console program. I was wondering how I would go about reading the tags for songs?

I also would like to know if this would be a difficult program to make, I have a slight idea about how I'm going to make it work and it seems easy in my head. But yeah, any information I could get on this would be very helpful and if you have any questions feel free to ask and I'll try to answer them. Keep in mind that this is only in the "I might do this" stage and if it seems possible for me to do this I probably will.

I've had 2 years of C++ classes and I've learned a lot and could probably learn what I need easily to do this. I just need information on how to get the data from the mp3 files containing the artist and such.

Thanks,
Sean

[Disch]

It seems like a fun project, but programs like this already exist.

If you just want to use a program without reinventing the wheel, I use TagScanner. It's pretty solid, although the UI takes some getting used to.

But if you want to do this for fun, then yeah it sounds like a cool project.