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a question, do you have an efficient way to organize and access your files or you just leave into one big folder called 'music'? i'm thinking to put everything into an external hd and divide it into several folders sorted per genre but i can't think more than 4-5 genres, perhaps making some alias on the desktop.. i need some discipline pls |
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music folder -> separate artist folders -> separate album folders -> make playlists to avoid navigating all the folders repeatedly. |
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I get what you're saying about genre, but I don't commit anything to my hard drive without first knowing what genre it is, so simply having all artists together works fine for me. |
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Same Music folder > artists > albums |
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c:\music |
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I put all the music made by niggers on the left and all the music not made by niggers on the right. Whether or not music is made by a nigger is the only useful distinction to me. |
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Aphex twin Autechre Biggiesmartypants Classical Dance Dubstep Hiphop Idm Ost Pop Rock Sick To The Back Teeth - [2009] Crash Crash Crash World xltronic |
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hehe |
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external hd + iTunes + ipod classic 120 gb That's the organized part of it. Then I have several folders on my computer for downloading from various sources. Pretty messy...but it works. kinda |
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I have a music folder, then artists folders, then albums all accessed with itunes, in which the artists are found in alphabetical order, if i want to find something really fast, i type the name of the artist song into the search and it finds it without me hitting enter . sometimes i have a load of tracks which are not labeled, like i have shit loads of bogdan which is messy, but i can't be bothered to clean it up |
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although my ipod broke I still use itunes. Keep saying I'm going to customise foobar for my music but never get round to it. |
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haha |
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it's in boxes |
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lolz yah having cds/vynils packed in boxes would probably make this a bit more fun |
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Digitally, I just do it alphabetically. Folders for A-B artists, C-F artists, etc. Artist folders within, album folder within the artist folders A-B \ A-Ha \ 1985 - Hunting High and Low |
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And I never make playlists, I tend to just browse to folder and enqueue them. |
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with the year at the beginning of the folder name.. interesting, but too long to do? about the playlist, i would find the way to fuck everything up for sure. i'm gonna try the combination /music/A/Aphex Twin though, sounds like a new world |
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I have a music folder > genre > artist > album my genres are classical electronic ambient misc soundtrack rock hiphop thats all i need cuz i have a mental image of all releases i own in my head so i know where shit is |
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oh and i also have a folder name discographies separated into artist folders with all albums under them. |
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artist folders -> album folders like aphex twin\aphex twin - come to daddy |
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cds: in aphabetical order (more or less), but idm first, 500+ records : just by artist, ive toned my vinels down to about 100 or so tapes : toned down to about 20 (why did i get rid of some?????) in a box music : just in itunes, by artist |
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i tried to sort by genres once..... its hard |
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genre>artist>album> |
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I try to sort by label or artist..but I've to re-organise all my vinyls..it's one big mess atm. |
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depends on usage. traktor library is a mix of genre-folders and bigger collections (useful whe nesting together various genres within the same artist). other files are sorted into formats first (flac / mp3) Flacs are similar to the traktor collections but i've opted to keep my own rips in one big fuckoff folder, and then keep the cheeky files in artists or bigger folders. mp3s are kept in either genre folders or the hugely depressing downloads that i should sort, but never get the chance to. onto the more esoteric filing system that is my physical record collection, which is a system of hierarchial label discography (sorted by first cat# for each artist) and related items with emphasis on size, format and selfbiographical relevance. in practice this means that warp get the first few metres, then rephlex and skam, with artistcollections following and then the single albums and 12inches. cds are sorted similarly and yes, its anal as fuck. but i spend less than 30 seconds finding the record i'm after so its all good |
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cds: only by rough genres records: elctronic / non-electronic / subdivided by artist digital... omg the "keepers" folder by [-- genre --] / artist lots of genres in there... and fave artists get own folders so i have maybe miami bass folder, when i want that. would be ridiculous browsing for artists in that case. "download" folder sorted roughly by genre also, so i can check out new stuff in any genre im in a mood for instantly. oh and i have a "guilty pleasures" folder aswell, for stuff id never show and only listen to in private, in a sealed basement, ..at night, via headphones.. |
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*me makes notes for when i hack ijon's computer |
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for example at the border between rap - instrumental hip-hop - electronic |
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^,^ |
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Artist - Album Just checking now and my first artist is the wonderful "36" and the last "Wang Chung". I think that about covers everything. |
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i like you, MetallicaDUde |
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foobar all the way. it's surprisingly good fun to customise foobar. sad, i know. Steinvordhosbn: where do you hide your Yazoo then? |
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Yeah, I was suprised Wang was last, no Yazoo, no X-T-C, no ... bands after Wang Chung .. maybe music ends with Wang Chung. At least for me. Well actually looking in my unsorted "Downloads" there is Wire who would.. come .. last, ... I suppose. But no, no Yazoo. I feel .. ashamed. |
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its hidden in "v.a. - dark side of disco vol.1" |
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i just dump them all in one folder, sorted by artist-releasename when my hdd is full, i make a new folder and then copy the old ones onto the new (bigger) hdd drive. i've been doing this for 10 years and i'm now onto mp3_5! about 50,000 releases or so. it's very messy, but it works for me. |
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omg |
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OMG!!!! |
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finished! pffffffffffffff... |
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i keep in folders designating where the files originated from |
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I like you more, MetallicaDude. |
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Chronologically. |
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would you believe that, last night i was stoned and sleepy and i mistaken the proper mp3 folder for the alias but i noticed it just after the trash was empy lol, i'm trying to recover the files but in case their names are all like 001a10s1dsa1d.mp3 i'm gonna stick with no music, and start recollecting.. cronologically :) |
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^ recovered 1/3 of it! thanks god the important folders are still there, |
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in folders |
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HD 1. Chicago Classic Acid 1985–88 HD 2. Midwestern Acid 1988– HD 3. British Acid 1988– HD 4. Colone Acid HD 5. The Australian Acid Scene |
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music>genre>artist >VA |
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each genre folder contains VA folder |
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iTunes is what i use |
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yeah i want an external hd too, theyre pretty expensive, the cheapest one i remeber seeing the other day at best buy was 80 dollars. |
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