How do you organize your music collection?

restrangled

Seems no matter how hard I try, it winds up all shuffled up, cd covers lost, inserts pulled out, and a pile of loose CD's because who ever is listening never puts them back.

If a few are out no problem. Right now I am working on about 300 loose CD's with run away covers.

I must be doing something wrong.

Do you organize by the type of music...like classical, rock, jazz,....? Do you just do it by Alpha? Do you organize by your favorites/most listened to?

Your in put greatly appreciated!

I know this may sound like a stupid question but I am really tired of reorganizing this stuff and also losing various CDs.

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John Doe

Who the heck keeps up with cds anymore? Scan them all on your computer, and throw the disks in a box. Then, you've got all your music accessible within 5 seconds.

Pretty easy to make a folder for each artist.

JD...I must be really behind the times. I don't listen on the computer or little ear phone thingys. I like hearing music on a nice sound system. Loud enough once in a while to feel it like we use to at concerts. We have a nice system from Canada...Axiom.

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Satanus

You can do that through your computer. Just run the cords from the computer sound card to aux on your amp or reciever. Plus, they got computer speakers now that sound unbelievebly good, if you wanna go that route.

S

John Doe

As satanus says, you can set your computer up with concert quality speakers complete with surround sound. Another advantage to having your music on your computer is if you want to hear a certain group of selections in your car or whereeer, you can burn them onto cd in less than a minute and have a custom compilation.

jaguarbass

Let me guess I have 1000 Cd's.

5 years ago I bought a Cd changer that held 400. I set it on random shuffle and it plays in the house.

the other 600 cd's I bought cd holders which each hold 100 cd's.

I threw all the holders away and saved the paper inserts in the cd holders.

In retrospect, I regret throwing the covers away, kind of, because I am stuck with the cd's now.

I cant trade them in, which I never did before, but I lost that option.

This year I bought a 1000 gig stand alone hard drive for 100$ new from new egg.

Any new Cd's I buy I load into it, type the artist and song names in and when I want to listen

I just click on the file in my computer.

The computer keeps them alphabetized.

I name the file artist name, then album name. I find that works best for me.

If I were to name the files cd name then artist. It would be more difficult for me to find

what I was looking for.

If I want to back them up I can buy another 1000 gig for 100 dollars.

I plan on loading all my cd's on it eventually.

New cd's I can load and the local independent cd store will give me a credit of 5o% on trade in if I have the cover and paper.

So after I buy 2 cd's I get one free. It doesnt matter if they are new or used.

restrangled

OK you guys are making me dizzy. You can run your computer to your sound system and avoid hours of aggravation? I don't have to hold all these cd's that were on average $14.00 a piece?

Is this correct? What the hell!!!!!

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Leolaia

I organize my music on my computer. I have all my CDs ripped on my main computer (which is a good idea anyway in case your CD is lost or damaged and you can make an easy backup), ripped at 300kbps. Then I have a selection from these of my favorite songs that are in other folders. These I hand tag the album info (especially by adding accurate genre info, as the one provided by web services are usually unsatisfactory), and then upload these to my iPod and burn onto a DVD. My DVD player doubles as a CD player, and I play the mp3s directly from the DVD and because the tagged info is present, I can find the music I want. And at 300kbps, they overall sound great on my Bose speakers.

I have hand tagged all my '80s favorites and I am currently working on selecting and tagging my '90s favorites. Then onto the current decade.

restrangled

Thanks LEO, I have work cut out for me....

Just one question, is this true for movies too?

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Black Sheep

Yes, you can do it for movies.

I have a secondhand laptop tucked away out of sight and hooked into my sound system and TV. With wireless on it I can control it from any computer in the house + I can watch youtube etc on the TV.

I use Windows Media Player. It has all of the organisational tools I need to make a great jukebox.

Have fun

Chris

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