How do you organise your music?

[7even]

complete chaos.

yall should see my room... or at least my desktop.

as soon as I find a negro to upload a screen of my desktop, Ill show y'all

[kosta]

haha damn..

naww i've already got a

E:\Sorted Music\Funk & Soul

E:\Sorted Music\Hip Hop\West Coast
E:\Sorted Music\Hip Hop\Uk
E:\Sorted Music\Hip Hop\Rest
E:\Sorted Music\Misc
E:\Sorted Music\RnB



lol

lol, isnt that kinda hard?



that's the easiest to me, not too many folders, and i have no trouble finding everything lol (well yea, i now have only a few folders on my pc, but i now have tons of CDs so ive deleted everything, infact, everything u see there, i have on cd too lol)

[Don Seer]

think about when u got over 1000 albums... (thats prob waaay under)

[West C. Connected]

think about when u got over 1000 albums... (thats prob waaay under)

I have most of my songs in My Shared Folder 'cause I hardly ever bump any of my organised songs.

[ACGRUNDY]

well, I'm sort of a perfectionist.  here is how I do it.

one folder called full albums, the other folder called tagged.

Full albums folder>title of artist/compilations/soundtracks>name of the album>songs

tagged>name of the artist>songs

then in the full albums I have the tracks numbered and named, such as Daddy V's the compton og:

03. Get Ya Bang on f WC, Tha Chill (thats how it looks in explorer)

then for the tagged, its just my folder of random songs by the artist, such as Daddy Rich:

Keep it gangsta f Mr. Trocc, MC Eiht, Tha Chill

then I play all my songs in winamp, and I try to keep them named in there too.

Problem is this takes a lot of time to do, and I am way behind.  I now have over 10,000 mp3's on my computer, and a shitload of them are not named the way I want, but at least they are in the right folder.   I just hope to be rich one day and pay someone to do all this for me.  and I pretty much don't keep any full albums on my computer that I own OG except for a few, just cause I try to save on space.   I have 47 gigs of music on my harddrive right now, on an 80 gig HD.  but I also have other shit on there, so I am always short on room, even tho I also have a 30 gig hd too.  so, when I get the funds I am gonna buy a 100 gig HD and keep that strictly for music.  and I have no backups of my music, so if my hd went out, I would be extremely screwed   anyone got any advice on what I could do for this? besides burning them all?  cause once before I burned all of my mp3's (when I had way less) onto cd's in mp3 format, and now my cdrom can't even read them.

[kosta]

anyone got any advice on what I could do for this? besides burning them all?  cause once before I burned all of my mp3's (when I had way less) onto cd's in mp3 format, and now my cdrom can't even read them.

you could buy an extrernal HD, i have one and i've put all my important/rare shit on it (school projects, rare clips, rare mp3s ect..)
just hook it up to ur pc (using an USB plug) and u could just copy all songs u have and paste them in the HD
u can remove all ur mp3s from ur pc after ure done and just play the songs from the extrernal HD, thats what i did before i became a cd-addict

[ACGRUNDY]

anyone got any advice on what I could do for this? besides burning them all?  cause once before I burned all of my mp3's (when I had way less) onto cd's in mp3 format, and now my cdrom can't even read them.

you could buy an extrernal HD, i have one and i've put all my important/rare shit on it (school projects, rare clips, rare mp3s ect..)
just hook it up to ur pc (using an USB plug) and u could just copy all songs u have and paste them in the HD
u can remove all ur mp3s from ur pc after ure done and just play the songs from the extrernal HD, thats what i did before i became a cd-addict

good idea, how much do those HD run these days?

[kosta]

anyone got any advice on what I could do for this? besides burning them all?  cause once before I burned all of my mp3's (when I had way less) onto cd's in mp3 format, and now my cdrom can't even read them.

you could buy an extrernal HD, i have one and i've put all my important/rare shit on it (school projects, rare clips, rare mp3s ect..)
just hook it up to ur pc (using an USB plug) and u could just copy all songs u have and paste them in the HD
u can remove all ur mp3s from ur pc after ure done and just play the songs from the extrernal HD, thats what i did before i became a cd-addict

good idea, how much do those HD run these days?

i've got a 80 GIGs one and it was around $115,-

[ACGRUNDY]

damn that ain't too bad, probably even cheaper now.

[Don Seer]

hell yeah shits cheap as fuck these days.. if u look back up i already said i have a 160 gig external!

but... what i'm hoping to do is put my new '2nd machine' somewhere outta the way and have remote network control over it, and get something that does a backup onto it from my main machine

so desktop will have 160 + 160 external
network will have 120 + 80

not sure what i'mma do with the other 40 i'll have left over


the full albums system you described is what it looks like i'm going to go for, but i want to put single tracks etc in the artist folders too

[Don Breezio]

damn that ain't too bad, probably even cheaper now.

nah their still right around that range...we sell 80 gig at work for 119.99 and 160 gig for 199.99

[E. J. Rizo]

they are just in a few spots on my mac but all i do is open them on itunes and then sort it out on itunes if anything with playlist and you can sort it by date and all that shit.....just let itunes handle them all and itunes has a feature where you hit the apple key and R and it shows you the file on the computer....so that works for me if im ever looking for a certain mp3 file....i think for the pc itunes its the same shit just prob different button combo look in the menus up top of itunes for it..

[Don Breezio]

yeah i have itunes and i use it the same way...but i kinda like the musicmatch system better...i just need to reinstall it...but the way i have my shit organized is just in the "My Music" folder and i have folders for each artists (alphabetically) and then if i have any full albums of that artist it stays outside the folders. so the folders for each artist are just for the misc. shit...it would look something like this:

Nas
Nas-On_The_Real-(Promo_CDS)-2004-CHR

those are both seperate folders.

[ACGRUNDY]

damn that ain't too bad, probably even cheaper now.

nah their still right around that range...we sell 80 gig at work for 119.99 and 160 gig for 199.99

well thats cause u work at radiocrap.  you think I would be dumb enuff to buy something from there?  I would always buy any computer parts online, where its cheapest.  No offense to you, but radioshack is waaaaaayyyyy too expensive.

[Don Breezio]

damn that ain't too bad, probably even cheaper now.

nah their still right around that range...we sell 80 gig at work for 119.99 and 160 gig for 199.99

well thats cause u work at radiocrap.  you think I would be dumb enuff to buy something from there?  I would always buy any computer parts online, where its cheapest.  No offense to you, but radioshack is waaaaaayyyyy too expensive.

you may think that but i've done my research...we're actually cheaper than a lot of people.