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How do you sort your music?
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| djshire |
Easy access to music means that many of us have collections that we couldn't even dream of 20 years ago. But having all that music means having to sort it, and that can become a problem.
My place to sort my music is iTunes. I have some pretty broad playlists...Uplifting Trance, Tech House, Drum N Bass...but nothing have been further sorted. So I have a track in Uplifting Trance that could be categorized as ProgLifting, another that could be Full On, another that could be Emotional...you get the point.
I'm also a DJ, though not professionally (not yet anyways). Having behemoth lists of tracks that broadly fall into a genre but not having further sub- and sub-sub-genre sorting may be a problem, as having to go through a whole list to find a track would be a pain. Plus, if I wanted to go for a particular vibe, I could just go to a very custom-tailored playlist and play from that.
I was thinking of going through and doing a more precise sorting of my music, but how do you sort your music? Do you go for broad, or go for the minutiae? |
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| miamitranceman |
I have a few subfolders by genre but from the DJ side I often just scroll through by bpm. Often times the same genre is all the same ballpark bpm anyway.
I also group by year I downloaded which is fun to go back and see how my style has changed over the years. |
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| Lira |
I dump all the files into mp3tag and watch the magic unfold before my eyes. If you buy your mp3s, the metadata pretty much does all the work you need - it sorts everything into neat directories by genre, artist, zodiac sign, you name it!
It's glorious.
It's marvellous.
It's the dog's bollocks. |
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| Sykonee |
CD rips on one drive. Downloads (mostly Bandcamp stuff) on another drive. Sorted alphabetically and that's it. Really, I use WMP for most music access on my computer.
Now, talk to me about how I sort my CDs... |
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| Woony |
| My files are mostly organized by genre -> label -> release. My records are only organized roughly by style (old techno, new techno, house, ambient, deep stuff, etc.) |
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| SYSTEM-J |
It's an absolute mess. Files in a thousand different locations, in folders created and clustered without reason or consistency. Hundreds of CDs piled in cardboard boxes and crates and squashed into my spare bedroom, alphabetical order scrambled beyond all hope of repair by innumerable house moves.
I don't see any method, at all...
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| all my mp3s just get dumped in a folder named for the month & year i bought it. vinyl is organised by key, but that doesn't really count since i haven't bought one since 2009 or so. |
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| DJ RANN |
Absolute ing mess. Vinyl in several vertical ikea storage thingys losely sorted by release date, mp3's and wav rips spread horrifically over several different drives, thena few stacks of completely unsorted CD's and then more in a dropbox, and two huge boxes of unloved vinyl in the attic.
There was a thread here with some interesting answers (especially dave's) on how to library music:
http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...8&#.WIz8bLYrIUQ |
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| Vernon Wanderer |
| Year > genre > type of release(album, compilaton, single) > release |
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| Lews |
| I've been trying to keep my music more organised the past few years, especially since I have rather large collections of Classical, Jazz, and Hip-Hop as well, so my latest years are organised by broad genre, then sub-genre, then release type (album, compilation, EP, etc). Music I have before the past few years, though, is just several gigantic folders with thousands of MP3s. I used to have my hard copy music in pretty good shape (mostly by genre, then sub-genre, then label), but I know my mother put it in storage when I moved to the UK, so I have no idea if it's still in any order - which really doesn't matter, since I probably won't get my hands on it again for 5+ years. |
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| kosmotika |
| Specific subgenres of trance such as acid, pizzicato, dream etc is all organized. For 'general' trance, it's sorted by era. 1990-95, 96-01, 02-06, 06+ etc |
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| Trance-M |
Many years I had singles and compilations separated in no order, just the ones of the same artist or series together. Last year I put them all in alphabetic order. No order for genre. Compilations in the early 90's contained multiple genres anyways.
MP3's in folders called Beatport, free and less free.
On my Nas it's just a big mess with an exploding Never gonna be listened folder... |
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