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don't really want to think about it 4 weeks ago

my music collection is a big pile of evil. half-tagged files everywhere, and a lot of nonsense like these artist tags:

Beethoven
Beethoven,_Ludwig_Van
Beethoven_-_The_London_Classic
Ludwig_van_Beethoven
Ludwig_Van_Beethoven
Ludwig_van_Beethoven_-_Artur_S
L_v_Beethoven
Schnabel,_Ludwig_van_Beethoven

i shudder to think of tackling this, but i’d like to move my collection online, possibly to http://www.mp3tunes.com/ , and want to get it ready.

i need to look for what i can delete, then start rationalizing the remainder.



beezo is starting to reasses his goals

not important 3 months ago

in the grand scheme of things, this goal isnt important… was just a way for me to waste time.

i dont even own any mp3s anymore.



coffeethyme is embracing Fall

A bit overwhelmed by this goal 4 months ago

Is tagging the same as making playlists??? Maybe that’s what I mean here. In order to do this I guess I need meaningful tags/lists identified. So that is the current sticking point.

I’ll investigate this by asking my 13 year old what his tags are. I imagine it’s easier to accomplish this goal when your music collection is smaller than my decades old one.

But, it will be nice to have my music organized.



Anerysa is heartbroken

Some progress! 5 months ago

There’s a few things that need to happen before I embark on this project, and a major one just happened.

Specifically, I acquired a 750 Gig external drive where I dumped all of my music. There, I’m organizing it into a file structure that makes sense.

I’ve also picked out an app (EasyTAG) that I think will do the job quite well.

Onwards…



Barbara is back to her normal self is getting ready for a new fridge!

moved to iTunes 5 months ago

and I don’t really need to tag them now.



Michael French is doing things

bing bong boom 6 months ago

kablamo



ihaveshoos is sorry for being an *utter* flake recently

Smart Playlists 7 months ago

Have started using smart playlists to manage my music.

Used ideas from this and this and it has really helped me monitor what is already there.

Anybody else use smart playlists like this?



beezo is starting to reasses his goals

deleted 7 months ago

about 10 months back i accidentally deleted my life-time collection of mp3’s, so technically i dont have this goal anymore, since I dont have any mp3’s.

but ill keep it on the list, since i want to get some again.



Untitled 7 months ago

i had 2 hours to kill..lol!



Vlad is anxious to board the next plane

Yay! It's done 7 months ago

It took 2 days – 6-8hrs a day (my eyes were sore afterwards), but I’m done now… it’s worth it definitely! Now all I have to do is tag everything as soon as I get it.



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