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Posted by scorpious on Aug-24-2006 07:49:

music organzition

With an enoromus music collection, how does a TA go about organizing the music?

What kinda software or tools are helpful to organize music?

Is a bigger hard drive a good investment? And how big does it need to be?

Posted by Gauss on Aug-24-2006 08:09:

I don't use any tools, I sort my music by genres, in regular folders. Oh, and I do renaming and tagging manually as well.
Got 160 GB HDD and around 110 GB of music. Planning to take another 160 GB HDD, or maybe even 250 GB if the prices drop in near future.

Posted by Grrrrr on Aug-24-2006 09:36:

I use this for tagging and renaming every mp3 track i have. http://www.id3-tagit.de/

Every track is named TRACK - ARTIST - TITLE in a folder ARTIST - ALBUM which in turn is an a folder simply by ARTIST.

Then it is split down into folders named; ALBUMS, COMPILATIONS, LIVESETS, RADIO SHOWS and SINGLES

Posted by DFOP04 on Aug-24-2006 10:37:

quote:
Originally posted by Grrrrr
I use this for tagging and renaming every mp3 track i have. http://www.id3-tagit.de/

Every track is named TRACK - ARTIST - TITLE in a folder ARTIST - ALBUM which in turn is an a folder simply by ARTIST.

Then it is split down into folders named; ALBUMS, COMPILATIONS, LIVESETS, RADIO SHOWS and SINGLES

sorry to go off topic, but is there an equivalent id3 tagger for mac osx? i mean which is the best free prog out there? i have searched on google, but no luck.

back on topic, i have nearly just filled my 250gig external hard drive, currently store all my music in itunes. i need a new 250 gig hard drive, just searching for the best one to get for use with ssl.

dfop

Posted by Rainborn on Aug-24-2006 16:38:

quote:
Originally posted by Gauss
I don't use any tools, I sort my music by genres, in regular folders. Oh, and I do renaming and tagging manually as well.
Got 160 GB HDD and around 110 GB of music. Planning to take another 160 GB HDD, or maybe even 250 GB if the prices drop in near future.

Same here.

Posted by Salegon on Aug-24-2006 16:47:

My personal mp3-assistant sorts these files for me.

Posted by shaw on Aug-24-2006 17:53:

I've got 3 folders: tracks, mixes, albums

Each is full of folders, according to release date, dj, and artist, respectively.

It took a while to overhaul, but I'm glad I did.

Just got a 320 gb external to throw stuff on. I've got 2 250 internal ones, but the one I was keeping music & what not on is full, & I don't want to have to put anything but apps & the OS on the other one.

Posted by Blake_Jarrell on Aug-24-2006 18:19:

2TB of external HD space

every song in its own folder:

ARTIST_TRACK_(REMIX)_BPM_KEY

with loops and samples cut out in ableton .alc format and put into that same folder.

Posted by Danny Ocean on Aug-24-2006 18:29:

quote:
Originally posted by DFOP04
sorry to go off topic, but is there an equivalent id3 tagger for mac osx? i mean which is the best free prog out there? i have searched on google, but no luck.

itunes

Posted by Sykonee on Aug-24-2006 18:41:

I sort with racks (long live the hard copy!). As for specifics, I use a very simple, yet effective, organizational method.

Good ------> Racks
Crap ------> Street

Posted by SYSTEM-J on Aug-24-2006 19:26:

My albums go in alphabetical (and chronological within each artist, for the hell of it) order on some shelves. My compilations have some shelves and the rest live in a box. My singles live in another box and all the copied/illegal shit goes wherever I put it. MP3 wise I just have a monstrous list of tracks and let Windows deal with sorting them.

Posted by Floorfiller on Aug-24-2006 19:28:

i've been wanting to make an access database so i can search by different categories, but i've been putting it off because i'm lazy...

Posted by shaw on Aug-24-2006 19:37:

quote:
Originally posted by Blake_Jarrell
2TB of external HD space

Damn. How much of that is full?

Posted by Blake_Jarrell on Aug-24-2006 20:30:

quote:
Originally posted by Inconspicuous

Damn. How much of that is full?

only about 1TB but its all wave files

Posted by shaw on Aug-24-2006 20:40:

quote:
Originally posted by Blake_Jarrell
only about 1TB but its all wave files

ah...yeah, I was going to ask that. I guess that much is almost a necessity with all wavs. I don't know that there's even enough music I like to fill up 2 TB with mp3s.

Posted by basd on Aug-24-2006 21:48:

I'm already happy when everything is in the same room.

Posted by Spacey Orange on Aug-25-2006 04:10:

i just have folders in a hd 120 gb, organized by CD:

4 Voice - 4 Voice III (FAX, 2000)
Ambient Dub Vol 3 - Aqua (Beyond, 1994)

i don't think music management software can substitute one's own personal knowledge of one's collection.