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Posted by SasH21 on Oct-23-2007 19:22:

Wow you guys, you are so cute and so planned...Damn, I have everything in one folder or by dates of download, but that happens rarely...When it comes to organizing anything on computer, I am horrible, unless it's work-related; then, I get anal about it. All or nothing kinda thing

Posted by NuERA on Oct-23-2007 19:26:

very anally. and as of late, i fear i havn't been anal enough, and have to go back and add information to 300 or 400 songs.

also, i feel this is a good time to note the importance of backups! also, an off-site backup in case of fire, flood, or theft.

Posted by slingshot on Oct-23-2007 19:28:

lol....a folder here, a folder there, a folder inside a folder, some folders in those folders, another folder there...

Posted by chinamon on Oct-23-2007 19:29:

quote:
Originally posted by Abercrombie
If my hard drive is low on space, I burn a DVD with my tunes, write the date, and put in CD album.

i do the same. i have about 15 dvdr and about 160 cdr laying around the room.

Posted by chinamon on Oct-23-2007 19:29:

quote:
Originally posted by kotsy
Where else do you post photos besides TA and Facebook?

theguvernment.com
thisislondonclub.com
clubplanet.com

Posted by Orko on Oct-23-2007 19:33:

I cant stand looking for tunes on DVD. I have to have them available on my hard drives to listen to. The only time I burn them is for perminent back up, which I store on the shelf and leave there until a hard drive failure. I cannot wait for those 4TB drives!

Posted by exstasie on Oct-23-2007 19:36:

quote:
Originally posted by Orko
I cant stand looking for tunes on DVD. I have to have them available on my hard drives to listen to. The only time I burn them is for perminent back up, which I store on the shelf and leave there until a hard drive failure. I cannot wait for those 4TB drives!

...now how much music do you actually have?

Posted by kotsy on Oct-23-2007 19:47:

I also have a habit of editing all my mp3s I download to get rid of the bits of silence at the start/end of an mp3. I also do a volume adjust on each mp3 as well. Out of almost everything in my life, I think I'm most anal when it comes to my music collection. Everything has to be just so or it'll be fixed right away. I can't count how many times I've spent an hour or longer finding out exact spelling etc on artists/tracks, some of which include finding artwork for a cd/vinyl.

quote:
Originally posted by Orko
I cant stand looking for tunes on DVD. I have to have them available on my hard drives to listen to. The only time I burn them is for perminent back up, which I store on the shelf and leave there until a hard drive failure. I cannot wait for those 4TB drives!

+1 on that! I couldn't handle having to get a cd/dvd out to listen to anything. It has to be right there, ready to go at all times.

Posted by SasH21 on Oct-23-2007 19:50:

quote:
Originally posted by kotsy

I can't count how many times I've spent an hour or longer finding out exact spelling etc on artists/tracks, some of which include finding artwork for a cd/vinyl.

My respect to you!

Posted by DaRoZa on Oct-23-2007 19:54:

quote:
Originally posted by kotsy
It has to be right there, ready to go at all times.

*insert misogynist comment here*

Posted by Owen M on Oct-23-2007 19:59:

by artist hight and weight ratio.

Posted by Cosmic Fur on Oct-23-2007 19:59:

My Music: all the stuff I downloaded but not yet listened to, after I listen, it gets put into one of the following folders:
/My Compilations
/Releases
/Sets
/Vinyls & Singles

My Compilations is a folder that gets further broken down by Genre - this is where I compile my mix CDs of single songs that I come across. Each compilation gets its own folder within the genre subfolder.

Releases is for all the album releases. Each album has its own folder, named: [Artist] - [Album Title]. Inside each album folder, the mp3s are named according to: [track#] [Artist] - [Song Title]

Sets is for all the sets I downloaded and liked. A set is either in its own folder if it's broken up into separate tracks, or if there's a tracklist available. All the set mp3s have the following naming convention: [year]-[mm]-[dd] - [artist] - Live @ [venue/event]

Vinyls and Singles has a folder for each vinyl rip that I downloaded. The folders have the following naming convention: [Catalogue#] [Artist] - [Title of Vinyl].

I'm VERY organized with my music.

As for the (feat.) inside the song title, it's actually the standard convention. See here: http://musicbrainz.org/doc/OfficialStyleGuideline This is what I follow, and it makes everything look very nice and pretty (aka organized).

Posted by Owen M on Oct-23-2007 20:02:

I haven't organized my music in 3/4 months. shits getting messy. but there's no time to sit around and organize that shit.
download.
burn.
write something stupid on the cd.
put into cd case.
at a later time insert into cd player.

Posted by Jem_hadar on Oct-23-2007 21:13:

By "Music X" folders that are all only ~ 4 gigs in size, so I can back said folders each onto their own DVD.

Possibly a few of said folders have an artist's CD folder in them if rip or DL/buy an entire CD. id like to keep that segregated and collected together.

Posted by legendary_waz on Oct-23-2007 21:43:

\Sets
\Trance Singles
\House Singles

Trance and house are put into CD folders each burned and in a binder (used for mixing). Currently at 45 trance CDs and 24 house CDs

Posted by jchung52 on Oct-23-2007 21:49:

im kinda worried about my external hd... it makes clicking noises once in a while.. i might need to get a new external and transfer my stuff onto there just in case. my cd binder right now is sitting at 112 cds... and thats just from 2007 so far. now that i look back on it, ive spent a hell of a long time going through my tunes and choosing what to put on, and then making the playlists gah. no wonder i get nothing done.

Posted by Matt on Oct-23-2007 21:59:

quote:
Originally posted by jchung52
im kinda worried about my external hd... it makes clicking noises once in a while.. i might need to get a new external and transfer my stuff onto there just in case. my cd binder right now is sitting at 112 cds... and thats just from 2007 so far. now that i look back on it, ive spent a hell of a long time going through my tunes and choosing what to put on, and then making the playlists gah. no wonder i get nothing done.

It means your external HD is dying. Back up ASAP.

Posted by CAKE on Oct-23-2007 22:03:

In the end i have so much music on my computer that the search function is the only way i find tracks.

Posted by slingshot on Oct-23-2007 22:11:

Posted by Jem_hadar on Oct-23-2007 22:13:

quote:
Originally posted by slingshot
You should be....I had one crash....bye bye 80gigs worth of tunes.

ive lost my whole collection once (back in highschool).

honestly, i was devastated. cant even tell you what it took to rebuild it, and back then it was 95% euro, 5% trance maybe.

if i were to lose it now... unfathomable. seriously.

its up there with some of the worse occurrences in my life that i was most upset by.

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