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[digitaldragoness]

I just spent 3 hours making 2 audio CDs O____o
This just means I REALLY need to re-organize my music.
It took many many folders scattered over 2 hard drives to make 2 CDs of Celtic music bits for tomorrow. Yes, I'm going to just give in and organize by alphabet, rather than genre.
Additionally, yes, this is my last post for a good few days!!

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[stoda.livejournal.com]

Bah... file-based musical organization is for WIMPS!

Use your MP3 player to organize it. Then when you want to make disks, just tell it to copy the songs in question to a folder you can manipulate further.

It does mean you have to actually do decent track tagging, but if you tag every time you have a situation like this you'll get it done.

Or do like I do, and just keep a playlist of all the untagged music - I play a random selection out of that all day long, and whenever I happen to think of it I tag whatever song is playing. I usually get 2 or 3 hours of songs a day done that way. I'm down to somewhere around 5,000 songs left to go. :>

[windnight.livejournal.com]

bah, that's the cheap way out! erm.. well, it is functional, except for the using the mp3 player to move the files around - that's not functionality i've found in the mp3 players i use.

personally, i go the anal-retentive librarian route. good tags, good file names, good organization.

it's a nasty ongoing project. one that only gets done when i have time to slack off at my home computer and i'm *not* playing a video game =p

what program do you use for mp3 playback?

[stoda.livejournal.com]

*grins, nodding* Yup, I'm really anal about the tags, too.

I use Musicmatch Jukebox (MMJB) most of the time - it's got the best library and tagging features that I've found yet. However, it's also a bit sluggish when you've got a lot of files. A lot meaning... 6k+ tunes.

It'll let you copy the files in a selected playlist off to anywhere. Or burn it to CD, natch.

I keep my files organized on disk in 2 steps - stuff I got off the internet, so it's relatively free to redist, vs commercial stuff ripped from CDs we own. Oh, and Christmas music gets it's own directory. Within that breakdown there's not much organization, just subdirectories named sequentially - the CD# I backed them up to. That's gonna change, however, as I gave up on the backup concept when I realized just how MANY CDs it's gonna take - gotta switch to DVD, and find some other way of tracking what's backed up and what isn't.

[windnight.livejournal.com]

yeah, the whole concept of "backing up" my music collection is amusing to me, since i dont' have some form of mass media storage device. no, strait cd-burners just don't count when you've got 30 gigs of material!

[feralmuse.livejournal.com]

Sometime I'm going to come over and plug my hard drive into your... wait, I mean, drain you of your... wait... dammit!
I mean...
I have an external USB harddrive you could back your tunes up on if you wish- it will just take a while unless you have USB2 O__o

[stoda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, exactly. And we've got about 50g.

I mean, yeah, I've got the source CDs, but the tagging is a lot of work!