lol, I feel like an old geezer.

I organize my music in my pants.

Oh... lots of pockets or something?

It's a mark f sighting!

*fires net gun to entrap rare species, for breeding in captivity*

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Originally posted by Dork:
*fires net gun to entrap rare species, for breeding in captivity*

/rapes net scientist

Most of my library is electronic but this is how I have it organized at the moment.

I cleaned up the mess that was my desktop and have most of my music in folder organized alphabetically by artist. I then have a folder on my desktop dedicated to 2008 music.

You're all Amateurs!

Wow, that's an utterly amazing collection. 3 million records?!?

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Originally posted by Bhob:
You're all Amateurs!

That's a gigantic collection. For the sake of curiosity, I decided to find out how much music I had. It came out to a tiny 876 albums electronically, I also have about 75 actual discs, but most of those duplicate what I have on my computer. I feel small...

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Originally posted by K00L M1K3:
That's a gigantic collection. For the sake of curiosity, I decided to find out how much music I had. It came out to a tiny 876 albums electronically, I also have about 75 actual discs, but most of those duplicate what I have on my computer. I feel small...

As much as it pains me to say it, particularly as someone who still struggles with the addiction, it is NOT always a good thing to have more music. On my old computer obsessive music collecting practically took over my life (well, the boring parts); I'm not sure how many albums it was but it was over 200 gigabytes. I was downloading music and then not listening to it even once half the time...not good.

Switching to a new laptop and not trying to drag everything over liberated me. Sort of. So having a small collection can be a good thing. Sometimes.

I'm just glad hoarding music isn't as frowned upon socially as hoarding porn.

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Originally posted by odysseyandoracle:

I'm just glad hoarding music isn't as frowned upon socially as hoarding porn.

I thought it was...

200 gigs is a fucking lot. My hard drive is completely full, I need an external hard drive ASAP.

I know what you mean about d/l vs. consumption. I try to limit my downloading to, at the most, a few albums a day so that I have a chance to actually consume it.

I am only now beginning to get "organazized" about my digital music collection just cos it's getting so out of hand and i can never find anything (since i burn everything i get onto dvds and therefore don't keep it on my harddrive).

I have been using a software prog called Advanced File Organizer to keep track of everything i have - music, video, software etc. It's pretty good but you have to click around a bit too much for my taste (and my carpal tunnel). So far I have only 73 dvds in the catalog (135 gigs of music so far), with literally hundreds more to input. I was wondering - do you use any such software?? What has been your experience with them?? Which one is best??

Thanks for reading!

J

I just put all my albums in a music folder and use SlimServer to browse and play music through my SqueezeBox. The only CD player I use anymore is the one in my car. I generally purchase around 10 CD's a month, and wear 'em out playing them in the car and on my home stereo. I'm at 995 albums, about 11,200 songs as of right now.

I split my CD collection into six main categories - groups, male, female, soundtracks, classical, various - then organise them alphabetically within each category. I'm less organised with my downloaded music, but I download so rarely anyway that it doesn't cause me much headache.

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Originally posted by odysseyandoracle:

I'm just glad hoarding music isn't as frowned upon socially as hoarding porn.

Whoah, wait a minute, hoarding porn is socially frowned upon? . Ire be damned, but for me itunes has been a saving grace. Being that I'm plagued with technology problems (my hp laptop has some fatally reoccurring os issues that causes it to crash every 5-6 months) and ill conceived storage for my digital music (TWO external hard drives plus "temporary" storage on my laptop), I've found itunes the most convenient software to play and locate my music. I don't even bother trying to reorganize the folders/hard drives locations of my completely disjointed music collection because it would require tedious and frustration days (even weeks) to suitable organize it, only to be out of order a few months later.

A lot of my technology inclined pirating maniac friends prefer winamp, but I've always had trouble loading ID3 tags through it and I find winamp to be much more of a cluttering pain in the ass to use.

I stopped using iTunes a few years ago, because I found it insufferably slow for large quantities of music. It may have gotten better but the Safari controversy going on now isn't tempting me to try it again.

Really, I find the media library approach to be useful in the short run but more work in the long run. If I let iTunes sort everything for me, the results are laughably bad. But if I leave it unsorted, then this makes it a pain in the ass to share music with other people, whether over AIM or Soulseek. There are actually people on Soulseek who will ban you for not having your music organized in some sort of way, and for good reason: "download entire folder" gets really annoying for everyone involved when the tunes aren't in discrete folders.

I use Winamp, and I'm not sure what you mean about having trouble loading tags in it. Have you used it recently? It loads tags for me just fine; the only thing that irritates me about Winamp is the inability to sort by track # in the metadata, but this is rarely an issue since most people are smart enough to include it in the file name. Still wish they would put that option in there.