organize my iTunes

I’ve spent hours over the last few days organizing my library. I’ve gone through all the albums I’ve listened to so far and added album art. I’ve also found the record label it was released on and the year. If I have the complete album the track numbers are * of *. If I don’t have the whole album I just have the number.

I’m going to go through the rest of my library as I listen to it. Getting album art and everything else. I’m making good progress, but I probably won’t actually finish this goal for a good two years.

My music is all in two folders now. All of my music is in the itunes folder except for the stuff I convert from vinyl. The process was much simpler than I expected it to be. For the most part I just dragged the folders into itunes and I changed the location. The play counts still intact. I did lose just a couple albums that I can get back from friends and now I have doubles of a few albums, but for the most part it is so much organized. Now I’m adding album artwork and organizing everything that I have listened to already. After I’m done with that, I’ll just correct every album as I listen to it.

All of my music is on an external hard drive and I have over 30 gigs. Right now all of the music I’ve gotten from other people is in separate folders. I want to condense it all down to the one itunes folder. This wouldn’t be too bad, but I also want to retain the play counts for my other goal of listening to all of my music. This is going to be really challenging, but fun.