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Posted by leph555 on Mar-08-2007 16:40:

Organizing MP3 Files?

I'm having problem organizing my music files on my computer. I used to have them all by artist. But, that took too much time and i did not like it that i had to click multiple folders to access the song that i needed. Right now I am just dumping all of the mp3 files in one folder, but that is too unorganized and it looks messy.

Anyone willing to share their ways on how they organize their music files on the computer?

Posted by Dj Preztige on Mar-09-2007 12:04:

well evry file that i get i rename them..

i keep all i 1 folder but looks something like this.

(Trance)-Dj Tiesto-Traffic
(Electro)-
(House)-

and so on....its nice and neat when you have it all in order..

Posted by Batman84 on Mar-09-2007 15:02:

I had read somewhere about a guy labeling like so

Artist - Title - BPM

instead of throwing it into a program to see the bpm, he just had it there, seemed pretty smart..would take a lot of time tho..

Posted by Ryan0751 on Mar-09-2007 16:20:

I use iTunes to organize my music, it works well and it integrates with Torq.

I don't label BPM's, I don't find that useful unless you have music with wildly different BPM's.

After I add tracks to iTunes, I key them and label all my tracks as follows (changing the title of the track in the tag data, I don't rename the actual MP3 file):

- ()

Example:

11a - Cool track (original mix) (F# Minor)

What I like about iTunes is the smart playlists. I created a bunch of "genre" tags that I use to label my favorite tracks. For example, I added:

Fav Progressive
Fav House
Fav Trance

And will set my favorite tracks to one of those values based on genre.

I then created smart playlists for each genre that will show only the appropriate genre. I used my own genre names as often tracks you download will have existing genre tags.

I also have smart playlists for "100 newest tracks", etc.

Posted by idoru on Mar-09-2007 18:18:

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