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The Beast Has Grown Beyond My Control

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Topic author: Charlie Sweatpants
Subject: The Beast Has Grown Beyond My Control
Posted on: 01/10/2005 3:08:48 PM
Message:

I have always been a big proponent of keeping music well organized. It is frightfully easy, especially in the era of mp3/oggs, to basically lose music and not listen to good stuff for years at a time just because you never see it.

That being said, my organization scheme is reaching its limits. What do those of you out there who have big collections (say around 10,000 songs or more) do? Is it folders by genre or artist? Do you use a media library program to build a database? What about sampling programs that try to group your songs for you? Is there an accepted 'best' way to do this or does everyone have their own method? How does your Neuros factor into your plans?

I'm going to be as open minded as possible, so let's hear all the wacky ideas that probably won't work too. (Plus I thought the Music Sound Off forum could use a good thread. It is seriously anemic for a board filled with audiophiles.)

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Reply author: Derek
Replied on: 01/10/2005 4:13:08 PM
Message:

i have about 3000 songs, not quite as many as you. Although i have the same problem. It took me a long time but i manually sorted the songs by folders similar to the way they are stored in the neuros. as for losing touch with songs i use NDBM to create random playlists. this helps give a better variety. You might also try sorting through your songs and creating a playlist of all the songs that you cant remember what they sound like. pretty entertaining

hope this helps a little,
Derek

Reply author: PokeyKat
Replied on: 01/16/2005 10:48:17 AM
Message:

By March I will be finished sorting 60,000 songs (too bad they wont all fit on the Neuros...sigh). My method is to make multi-genre playlists which sound good as a mixture.. "Jazz/Blues/Folk", which yields a MASSIVE playlist. Then I cut it into 200 song chunks. "J/B/F #1", "J/B/F #2", etc. This allows you to listen in reasonable allotments so you don't miss ever hearing a certain song, but also allows huge random play in "J/B/F All" mode. I've been using that method for the last year and it works well for me. Now my problem will be dividing my collection into Neuros size (80gb) chunks while I wait for harddrive technology to catch up...

Reply author: natesneat2000
Replied on: 02/03/2005 4:58:00 PM
Message:

PokeyKat, what format to you use? How big is your collection?

Reply author: American Techpusher
Replied on: 02/04/2005 04:39:25 AM
Message:

Yesterday I was showing off my personal Neuros to a bunch of people and while one them was playing with the player, they started playing a song I had not heard in years.

Apparently I had taken time to rip the CD however. ( In Ogg of Course )

Keith Ashwood
American Techpushers

www.americantechpushers.com

Reply author: qvack_82
Replied on: 02/04/2005 04:44:06 AM
Message:

I have ~5000 songs (and growing). Most of which come from my CD collection. Which means I've checked the tags before the files are created.

I simply use
Artist/Album
for my directory structure.

and for songs which came from other sources, I usually check the tags myself before inserting them into the correct directory.

Of course, I have missed tags every now and again, so I use a program called rhytmbox http://www.rhythmbox.org, which builds it's own database of my collection, and check through that to find files with 'Uknown' artists/album/title to find which files are offending, and clean them up.

Just another point of reference for you.

Cheers
Paul

http://pwarren.php-help.com

Reply author: Sottilde
Replied on: 02/05/2005 4:45:08 PM
Message:

Yeah, I'm pulling about 6k songs myself. I use iTunes to sort, and Sorune to sync. I just simply copy my iTunes directory structure out to the Neuros, rebuild with Sorune and all is well.

I've had a few anomalies with Sorune. Some mp3s show up as e.x. King Crimso... with no last letter, and the album and song names also have no last letter. Started with Sorune .5, but it only happens to about 20 of my songs.

Otherwise, this works really well.

------Order #9082 :D

Reply author: PokeyKat
Replied on: 02/06/2005 12:25:02 PM
Message:

I use VBR MP3 mostly. 60,000 songs = 250 gb

Reply author: Sottilde
Replied on: 02/06/2005 5:39:38 PM
Message:

quote:
Originally posted by PokeyKat

I use VBR MP3 mostly. 60,000 songs = 250 gb

... I have nothing to say to that... except...

STEALER!!!

------Order #9082 :D

Reply author: PokeyKat
Replied on: 02/08/2005 8:49:57 PM
Message:

Actually, 25+ years of collecting.

Oh, and in the immortal words of the Circle Jerks,

"Deny Everything, Deny Everything, Deny Everything, Deny Everything, Deny Everything, Deny Everything, Deny Everthing, Deny Everything, Deny Everything, Deny Everthing, Deny Everything, DENY EVERYTHING!!!

Reply author: Sottilde
Replied on: 02/08/2005 9:26:52 PM
Message:

I think you forgot a "y" on one of those "everything"'s. You know, not that anyone's looking.

------Order #9082 :D

Reply author: Charlie Sweatpants
Replied on: 02/11/2005 11:02:46 AM
Message:

quote:
I use VBR MP3 mostly. 60,000 songs = 250 gb

I had problems with VBR mp3s and ended up switching to Ogg, what bitrate and encoder/ripper do you use?

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