organize my music

I figure alphabetically is the best way to go about this. So far I’ve made it through B. I’m using allmusic.com to define genres and help characterize all the music so I’m not just using my judgment (as it may change day-to-day).

I got a new MP3 player (Sansa Fuze 8 GB – Love it) and I have decided that I will only load songs on it that are labeled and tagged correctly. Perhaps this will get me started on organizing my music.

I have made a small start to this by separating out the songs I have by language (Hindi, Bengali, English, etc.), by genre (Classical, Film, Ghazals, Rabindrasangeet, etc.) and by category (Film albums, Compilations – by singer, mood, theme, etc.)

Trying to sort out songs that differ by bit rates, various combinations of paras, versions by singer (solos, duets, tandems) and moods (happy, sad) only complicates things but is necessary because I don’t want to delete a song thinking it is a duplicate only to find out that I have deleted a particular variation of the song.

I generally consider myself a very laid back individual… however there are one or two things I am perhaps a little overly OCD about and music is one of them. I have a large collection of mp3s, probably around 160GB, 132GB are already organized and 26GB still need to be.

All the tags need to be correct (artist, album, track number, song title, disc number, cover art of at least 500×500, genre, year). I also rename the actual mp3 as “Artist – Album – Track# – Title” and place it in the following folder hierarchy: Audio/Albums/Artist/Year – Album Title. Various Artist and Original Soundtracks have their own folder and are shorted a little differently. It’s a slow process but I’m certainly getting closer. In some ways it’s a relaxing sorting music, somewhat like washing dishes.

http://allmusic.com (great for genre/tag information)
http://musicbrainz.org (tag information)
http://amazon.com (good quality cover art)

Oh god, it was horrible. But now it’s done, so nyer. ^.

blurgh i want to be sick thinking of the mess my music files are in haha; oh well thank God for itunes having that ability to basically copy all files somewhere new so thats useful; 2bh i just downloaded a programme called Spotify which lets you choose from a HUGE library of music and its almost like radio which is quite worth it so i will survive without my itunes for a while at least; my shuffle only needs the occasional charging now and then anyway¬¬

any other suggestions???

I’m probably too much of a perfectionist for my own good, because this goal is taking ages to finish! I know my files are already organised pretty well, but I want all albums to be labeled and with original release dates (and try finding the actual release date for some indie band’s first album! Now that takes time…). I’ve been doing this for hours today and I’m not even 1/4 done, oh dear. I wonder if I ever accomplish this goal.

nuff said.

I’ve created a mess of music on laptop, desktop and iPod in three different formats. Time to clean it up.

I have a 750 gig hard drive full of music but it has absolutely NO organization or continuity to it. My goal is to actually organize it so that I can put it on my IPOD easier.