organize my iTunes library

I’m rating.
And rating
and rating…

TO BE PRECISE: i did some math. i’ve rated about 0.06 percent of my library. that is, 450 songs exactly, out of 7361. but still. progress.

I’ve got all the genre fields filled in for EVERY SONG, thank GOD.

annnnd i’ve gone from about 9,200 songs to about 7,450!

nowww i’m moving on to the artist fields. in addition to making sure that i’ve got it all in there accurately, i’m gonna take out all the ‘featuring’s. so if the artist field for Cupid’s Chokehold says “Gym Class Heroes featuring Patrick Stump” i’ll change it to “Cupid’s Chokehold feat. Patrick Stump” and the artist will just be “Gym Class Heroes”. i think that will make it a lotttt easier to do iTunes.

okay. so after i deleted all the duplicates, i deleted the tracks that will NEVER be listened to: those pesky ones that are called ‘track 1’, ‘track 2’, ‘track 3’... on and on and on. I used to tell myself that i’d listen to all of them and find out what they’re called, but there’s really no chace of that, so i just deleted them.

now i’m moving on to genres. I think that my library is way out of control for a LOT of reasons, one of which is that the genres are mislabled or too specific. what i did was, i went onto the itunes store and found their list of genres. now i’m going through my library in order of genre, and changing EVERYTHING to something on this list:

- Alternative
- Blues
- Children’s Music
- Christian & Gospel
- Classical
- Comedy
- Country
- Dance
- Electronic
- Hip-Hop/Rap
- Jazz
- Latin
- Pop
- R&B/Soul
- Reggae
- Rock
- Soundtrack
- Vocal
- World
- Holiday

EVERYTHING fits into these categories, because they’re SO GENERAL. i changed all my “Rock ‘n Roll” and “Mellow Rock” into just “Rock”. “Alternative Rock”, “Alternative & Punk” and “Indie Alternative” all become “Alternative”, and so on. It makes it SUPER easy.

however, it’s taking FOREVER.

oh, well. i’d better get back to it.

I deleted all the duplicatesss, now I’m on to step two!
In the process of duplicate-deleting, i knocked almost 700 songs off the total of songs in my library :) i’m excited!

OKAY. so, in my library there are about 9,200 songs.

PLAN OF ATTACK:

1) delete duplicates
2) get all the genres, names, artists, and album names straight for all of my music
3) rate everything and uncheck things i don’t want on my iPod
4) get album artwork
5) playlists

right now, i’m on number one. and it sucks. but it’ll be worth it, no?