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| quote: | Originally posted by Stu Cox
The only metric I use for organisation is age.
I used to split things up by genre, but then didn't know what to do when tracks fell between several genres etc, so gave up with that.
Now everything in my wallet is organised roughly oldest first, starting with a series of "classics" (pre 2005), then a section for each year following that with just the best bits I've decided to keep in my wallet (normally 40-50 tracks per year, not in any particular order within that) up to last year, then this year's in the order I bought & burnt it.
My reasoning for just using age is this:
- It's not subjective, so if my tastes evolve over time I'm not going to change my mind about whether it's a peak-time or a warm-up track, or whether it's progressive polka-dot dibstep or tech polka-dot dobstep
- It's usually fairly easy to remember roughly how long ago you got something
- You just add stuff onto the end and it all stays in order, so no reorganising every time you buy some new tunes, just go back and chuck out the crap when you run out of room
- You normally want to be able to find your new stuff easily, while your older stuff will have been in the same place for long enough for you to remember roughly where it is, this seems to facilitate that
But yeah I don't label them with descriptions or genres or anything, just try and remember what they're like (doesn't always work!)... I do mark them all by tempo, key and label though, but don't really use them for classification or organisation. |
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i usually just scribble something on the cd, usually just track names
newer tunes are together, older tunes are together, people dance and be merry and i get paid
seems to work for me so far
i usually just have a few mp3 discs that i play my new stuff off of, burn em every couple weeks, the rest i carry around just in case
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