What You Said: How You Organize a Messy Music Collection
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Published on Fri, 06 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT
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Earlier this week we asked you to share your tips, tricks, and tools, for managing a messy music collection. Now we’re back to share so great reader tips; read on to find ways to tame your mountain of music.
Several readers were, despite having tried various techniques over the years, fans of doing things largely the manual way. Aurora900 explains:
I spent a weekend sorting everything myself once. Took a while, but now I have folders sorted by artist, and within the artist folders are folders for their albums. With my collection at about 260gb, it can be a daunting task, but it’s well worth it in the end. I don’t have the tagging issue as I make sure anything I have is properly tagged to begin with… If I’m ripping a CD I use Easy CD-DA Extractor, which automatically searches a database on the internet for the tags. If I’m downloading something, if its from a reputable source its going to be properly tagged already.
Bilbo Baggins would love to automate, but eclectic music tastes make it hard:
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