Music organizing software is a computer program that does the work of placing music files into some type of meaningful order. This type of software handles what could be a tedious chore for the owner of the music collection. For people with very large collections of music, having an application that can help to organize it is a necessity.
The main function of music-organizing software is to establish a catalog-style structure. This usually involves separating songs into folders and subfolders according to the artist, album or genre. This makes the finding and retrieving of particular songs or collections a much simpler process.
ITunes, Zune, Musicmatch, Winamp and MediaMonkey are examples of music-organizing software. Each has a variety of different storage and playback features. Some software provides the ability to load music to a portable player.
Most music-organizing software allow sorting songs or albums into specialized playlists. Many also have features that are indirectly related to organizing the music like downloading podcasts. Some contain music stores for the purchase of new music to add to the collection.
Music can be save in several different types of files formats. Be mindful of compatibility issues that may make one song, saved in a particular format, playable in one type of software and not in another. Most software manufacturers make it clear to users what types of music files are compatible with their software.