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Salar

Salar

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I'm about to pass out
I decided that it's time to organise my music collection and start tranferring all of my CD's to MP3 format and have all my music run from itunes. But to further my cause i decided that it's necessary for me to break up all of my music into categories since there's so much of it.
So the categories that stand were
Latin
Dance/Euro/Trance/House
Legends (artists such as Bill Withers, Frank Sinatra etc)
Rap
R&B
International
Rock
Punk
Jazz
etc
etc


Anyway so I decided to try and organise my computers collection to realise i have 120GB of music. So i started organising albums and artists and stuff like that which has taken me all day and i've done all the easy stuff. I've got about 20-30GB of absolutely fucked up music that are single tracks not belonging to any albums which i have left. After this i need to start going through 900 albums and singles to see what i need on my computer.

But after all this is complete, i'll have the most complete and best music collection IN THE WORLD!!!! Muhuhahuhauhaaa

Who collects music?
Who has an organised music collection?
Are there any easier ways?
 
me. organised artist then album, plus a folder full of unsorted albums and/or tracks

with covers as well (for media center)
 
Salar said:
I'm about to pass out
I decided that it's time to organise my music collection and start tranferring all of my CD's to MP3 format and have all my music run from itunes. But to further my cause i decided that it's necessary for me to break up all of my music into categories since there's so much of it.
So the categories that stand were
Latin
Dance/Euro/Trance/House
Legends (artists such as Bill Withers, Frank Sinatra etc)
Rap
R&B
International
Rock
Punk
Jazz
etc
etc


Anyway so I decided to try and organise my computers collection to realise i have 120GB of music. So i started organising albums and artists and stuff like that which has taken me all day and i've done all the easy stuff. I've got about 20-30GB of absolutely fucked up music that are single tracks not belonging to any albums which i have left. After this i need to start going through 900 albums and singles to see what i need on my computer.

But after all this is complete, i'll have the most complete and best music collection IN THE WORLD!!!! Muhuhahuhauhaaa

Who collects music?
Who has an organised music collection?
Are there any easier ways?
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What sort of Dance etc you like ?
 
iTunes is great but it takes a lot of time if u r puttin tracks from say Limewire on there considerin it isnt as neat as an album.... itunes just takes time
 
Well I only listen to hip hop music, so organizing wasn't as hard as hard for me I guess. The problem was, I had 10,000 songs on my computer. Not to mention the shitloads of discs I got with music, but I didn't add them yet. So I had all those 10,000 songs on my computer in one folder. I made a new mp3 folder and made artist folders, then inside those, album folders. Then I had to move all the mp3s. Wasn't fun.
 
its linx! said:
Well I only listen to hip hop music, so organizing wasn't as hard as hard for me I guess. The problem was, I had 10,000 songs on my computer. Not to mention the shitloads of discs I got with music, but I didn't add them yet. So I had all those 10,000 songs on my computer in one folder. I made a new mp3 folder and made artist folders, then inside those, album folders. Then I had to move all the mp3s. Wasn't fun.
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Like I said, Windows Media Player does all that for you.
 
I organize CDs by the amount I have by a single artist or "family."

For instance, I put all the 2Pac CDs, G-Unit/Shady/Aftermath CDs, Bad Boy CDs, etc. into one storage case while single CDs go into another. And then I have mixes and mixtapes which go into another. As for online music, I have folders for each artist I decide to download music from. But if there's an artist I only D/L one album or song from, they're placed in the Miscellaneous folder.

That's how I do it, and dammit it works for me!
 
physical CD's and tapes are just put somewhere, I need to figure that part out still lol

mp3...the ones I rip are all in the same folder, albums and singles, and the format is "artist-year-album_(bitrate type (CBR or VBR)"

downloaded mp3 albums are in one folder called "Albums" (simple enough). Instrumentals, Acapellas, Mixtapes, Compilations and single mp3 files are in their own folders

...plus I got seperate folders fro 2pac and Wu-Tang

hopefully, one day, all my mp3's will be rips, except unreleased shit from various artists
 
When I download/rip an album I immediately find an album cover for it, try to verify the length of the songs so I know if I have to redownload some of em and add it to 'My Albums.txt' (I add a * for bad quality albums and a ** for albums that lack an album cover).

I don't sort it by genre (although I edit the tags for that) but just by artist. Some artists I put together. For example:

Comptons Most Wanted/Comptons Most Wanted/Music to Driveby (1992)
Comptons Most Wanted/MC Eiht/We Come Strapped (1994)
Wu-Tang Clan/Killa Beez/Sunz of Man/The Last Shall Be First (1998)
Wu-Tang Clan/Wu-Tang Clan/Wu-Tang Clan/Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993)
Wu-Tang Clan/Wu-Tang Clan/Ghostface Killah/Ironman (1996)
Wu-Tang Clan/Wu-Tang Clan/Ghostface Killah/Ghostface - My Guitar.mp3
MF DOOM/Madvillain/Madvillainy (2004)/Madvillainy (Leaked) (normally I'd put Madvillain seperate but I want all my MF DOOM shit together)
MF DOOM/Madvillain/Madvillainy (2004)/Madvillainy

I label songs from albums like '## - Title' and single songs as 'Artist - Title'.

Before my harddrive crashed I had 90% of my music labeled correctly and tags edited. I'd edit every album I downloaded/ripped before moving it to the permanent folder so I could keep track of the ones I hadn't edited yet.

But I lost it all and I had to regain a lot of music so I've only edited some albums. I copied my album list and when I edit one I take it it off the list (and add albums that I acquire) to keep track.

For the tags I edit artist, features, album title, song title, track # and sometimes producers.
 
^^
your signature says it: k.

i don't get that advanced. for a while i did the same thing minus the txt file and the artist folders. i had a folder for albums, a folder for soundtracks, a folder for bootlegs, etc, and inside that folder i had folders <artist name> - <album title>. i did have a folder for unedited albums though. i stopped downloading music as much as i did before, i only download an album every once in a while.
 
Illuminattile said:
Like I said, Windows Media Player does all that for you.
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I guess, but i'd rather do it myself. I rename all the individual mp3s and I don't use id tags.
 
Salar said:
I decided that it's time to organise my music collection and start tranferring all of my CD's to MP3 format and have all my music run from itunes.
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You're not getting rid of your CDs afterwards, are you? I would transfer them as one avenue for backing up songs/albums, together with CDRs. But would never get rid of my CDs, many of which have booklets with valuable information and photos and great album covers. And hard drives can and do crash, sometimes irretrievably. I have my CDs organized by genre, then artist, then chronological order within each artist. I created a database of all my CDs so I know what I have at all times. Nothing I have on CD goes to my computer, only what I download.

I will rip a CD or song to the computer to tranfer it to an Ipod, but then I'll delete it. Now if only I could figure out what to do with like 300 LPs.
 
Jokerman, i'm not going to get rid of my cd's. Just going to store them away and no longer have them lying around. Simply, it takes too much room. I run everything through my comp anyway, and i don't even use cd's anymore. And just going to box them and put them away somewhere.

it's going to take me a long while to organise all of this
 
/\ my cousin uses itunes and has 500 GB of music on there.
 
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