How do you organize your media (mostly music) library? As opposed to begging for help fixing my heck-hole of a library, I'd rather start a conversation and perhaps glean something useful. I, as many, got an iPod at one point in time, and had to convert all my music media that was .wma to m4a... and now I'm left with duplicates of both versions. Beyond that, duplicates of so many different songs from different sources, CD's, downloads, friends, and so on that make my 60 gigs of music more like 45 of real, original songs.

 

TL;DR, our music libraries are a mess. how to clean this?

 

EDIT: Using MediaMonkey Gold, with Sony Vaio E-Series laptop, E-Series mp3, and sennheiser HD205 cans

What happens when you click this? (Post pic if you want.)

 

 

 

 

As for me, I'm an organized person already, so I try to keep my files as neat as possible. Everytime I put new songs into my library, I make sure they have the correct artist, album, album art, etc. attached to them so I do not have to sort them down the road.

 

Unfortunately, my 6.73GB doesn't compare to your 45GB, so... I suppose you could just organize little by little each day. Eventually you'll get there?

 

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Well, unfortunately (or fortunately in my case) I no longer use iTunes. I have a generic mp3 'cause I'm a bit of an audiophile and dislike the way iTunes works... But I can tell you i'd have a few thousand duplicates... unfortunately. Too many to delete by hand.

What program do you use to keep your music?

What program do you use to keep your music?

 

Ahaha, this is going in as an edit:

 

Here's whats going on... MediaMonkey Gold, Sony E-Series mp3, Sony E-Series Vaio Laptop, sennheiser HD205 'phones.

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Mp3tag is a useful little program that can edit the metadata,, useful for renaming tracks and adding album art, etc... Plus, it's free too. :thumbsup:

This is a good coincidence, I just bought an iPod (classic 160gb) last week and have spent every waking moment since then trying to organize my music. I just finished a few moments ago getting all the file names/paths uniform, now I get to fix the tags... It is taking a while since I have a little over 19,000 songs (115gb).

 

I have my file structure hierarchy like this (dedicated 250gb hdd called Music) "Music (E:)\artist\AlbumYear - AlbumTitle\DiscNumber\TrackNumber - TrackTitle". So Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb would be: "E:\Pink Floyd\1979 - The Wall\Disc 2\06 - Comfortably Numb.mp3"

 

With the proper folder structure and naming convention you should be able to get all the info you need without tags if they don't have them or a device doesn't use them correctly. But I want my iPod to display everything correctly, so I am going to go through and check the ID3v2 tags for every single song and fill it in correctly, then re-import my songs into iTunes, then connect my iPod. That way all the info is correct.

All my music is on its own partition - J:\mp3

 

I have 26 folders named ‘a’ through ‘z’, and one named bullpen.

 

In folder ‘a’ you would find all the artists beginning with a - Aerosmith, Bryan Adams (last name), Atlanta Rhythm Section, etc.

 

I rename all my mp3s as artist.' - '.song title, i.e. Aerosmith - I Don't Want To Miss A Thing.mp3.

 

Any new downloads I get go into bullpen, from which I rename to my format and then move them manually and add to iTunes.

Music directory is

 

E:\Music\Artist\Album\01 - xxxxxx.*

 

I sort by folders in foobar2000's browser.

E:\Media\Audio\Albums\Artist\<album_name>\[disk\]artistName_albumName_[disc_]trackNum_trackTitle

E:\Media\Audio\Compilations\<compilation_name>\

E:\Media\Audio\Soundtracks

 

 

 

And I'll finish this later. From the general look of things.. it's organized a bit too well.

I believe Songbird has an addon that will allow you to view and delete duplicates.

E:\Media\Audio\Albums\Artist\<album_name>\[disk\]artistName_albumName_[disc_]trackNum_trackTitle

E:\Media\Audio\Compilations\<compilation_name>\

E:\Media\Audio\Soundtracks

 

 

 

And I'll finish this later. From the general look of things.. it's organized a bit too well.

 

 

So you are the reason I have to rename underscores to spaces all the time... :smile:

I let iTunes rape my music collection by accident. Now i'm too lazy to go through 10,000 songs and organize them, considering I only have about a tenth of them on my ipod