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Keeping track of your music

post #1 of 36
1/26/07 at 10:55pm
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I use a piece of software called "Music Collector" to keep a handle on my 680+ cd collection. What does everyone else do?
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post #2 of 36
1/27/07 at 12:06am
I don't keep track. I occasionally attempt to keep everything organized, catagorized and alphabetized, but eventually they end up happily strewn all over my house. I prefer it this way. I'm constantly stumbling onto one I'd forgotten. It adds to my pleasure, like finding money in last year's coat or meeting an old friend unexpectedly at a restaurant and then sitting down to dine...very nice indeed.
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post #3 of 36
1/27/07 at 12:14am
I have my entire collection ripped to the PC and played back through Squeezeboxes. Keeps itself nicely organized without much effort.
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post #4 of 36
1/27/07 at 12:16am
I have everything in itunes, including my own Cds. I export the song list to a text file, and then have an excel pivot table based on some access queries.
Yes, I know, a bit nerdy , but I get my music collection my artist, by composer, by genre, ...
Lionel
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post #5 of 36
1/27/07 at 12:20am
What kind of software is that?
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post #6 of 36
1/27/07 at 12:32am
Everything is ripped to my computer and organized by genre and artist, in directories. The CDs are all stored in boxes elsewhere.
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post #7 of 36
1/27/07 at 12:38am
I used to be religious in cataloging my digital and (non-Classical) vinyl on a home-made MS Access DB with pre-made Data Entry Forms and some Queries/Reports.

Stopped updating it a couple years ago, though. At the time, I probably had 2,000 each of vinyl and CD. Now I'm probably over 3,000 CD, and sold off most of my vinyl; down to perhaps 300 pieces including Classical. And I'm perhaps 1,000 CD's out of synch!
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post #8 of 36
1/27/07 at 12:46am
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Originally Posted by lionel marechal View Post
I have everything in itunes, including my own Cds. I export the song list to a text file, and then have an excel pivot table based on some access queries.
Yes, I know, a bit nerdy , but I get my music collection my artist, by composer, by genre, ...
Lionel
Sorta The same way, i have all my cds ripped into a folder all artists etc... then i organize my 3 full cd cases... and on top of that i have an excel spreadsheet that is broken down through genre and i add every new cd to it before i even rip it. then i have a copy of said excel on my iriver and on another computer... so if i get stolen on or something i have a backup
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post #9 of 36
1/27/07 at 1:08am
All the originals- a mix of lossless and compressed files- are organized and stored on a ReadyNAS server. I also have a storage drive on my main computer that I use for itunes. The readyNas streams to foobar and my squeezebox- the storage drive stuff is just for my ipods- it has copies of the lossy files and AAC versions of my lossless files. This is how I do it until itunes implements transcoding on the fly.
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post #10 of 36
1/27/07 at 1:27am
I use Boltz CD racks and my expert knowledge of the alphabet (although it does fail me on occasion).
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post #11 of 36
1/27/07 at 1:28am
I've a question for you guys with classical CDs. How do you categorize them? I never could find the perfect way to categorize classical due to the insane amount of information on the cover that constitutes its title
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post #12 of 36
1/27/07 at 1:46am
Music is organized in the My Music folder by Artist -> Album -> Song.

I use the MediaMonkey Gold software for tags and organization. All my CD's are kept next to my computer or on old, blank CD holder's.
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post #13 of 36
1/27/07 at 2:59am
I keep thinking about this and have no clue where to find a particular artist since everything's alphabetized by composer. The one consolation is this forces me to go through the collection, so I find things I forgot about. I'm not too anal about alphabetizing either, and sometimes just put things back wrong on purpose so I have to go through them again.
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post #14 of 36
1/27/07 at 3:05am
I use iTunes and make sure that all the songs are correctly labelled. I have 32,000 tracks and 212 GB in my iTunes library. It works pretty well but my huge collection is starting to bog down so I'll need to get a faster computer soon.
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post #15 of 36
1/27/07 at 3:07am
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Originally Posted by fatcat28037 View Post
I use a piece of software called "Music Collector" to keep a handle on my 680+ cd collection. What does everyone else do?
On a shelf, by alphabetical order then by release date.
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