[weste47]

Just thought i'd make this topic on these forums, because I have seen it done on another forum and its pretty interesting to see how people sort out their collections, what bit rate they use for most of their music, and how many songs they have? And also if you keep full albums all the time, or just pick out the songs you like from albums. I'll start.

I seperate my music by using genres for the different types of music I listen to. I've seperated everything into 6 genres making it easy to pick something for the mood I'm in.

On ipod now is 3708 songs taking up 20.02 GB. (I'm really picky about what I put onto the ipod, mostly all of the songs I like listening to.)

About half of my music is 128kbps + and the other half is 256kbps + .

Personally I pick out only the songs I like from albums, unless it's and album that works better if you have all the songs.

 

[macky]

8945 songs on my 80 gig ipod.
sorted by:
Artist\(date) Album\tracknumber - title

Pretty simple and works great for me.

edit: All songs are LAME 3.97b -V0

 

[PouncePony]

3953 songs on my RockBoxed 60GB 5G IPod.

Artist\Album\Track Number - Song Title.

Additionally, I have 20 of my favorite albums also in FLAC.

-Pony

 

[bigshot]

I have seven iPods with nearly a year worth of music on them. Each iPod is linked to a different iTunes library by type of music... classical, jazz, rock n' roll, popular music, ethnic, country, soundtracks/library music. There are subcategories in each type and decade of music listed in the genre tag (jazz- 1940s big band, 1950s be bop, 1920s trad jazz, 1930s harlem jazz, etc.) This allows me to shuffle by decade or style. I try to preen my artists tags so they display properly in artist view. I don't worry about any other tags. As I listen, if I come across a song I don't want, I mark it one star and delete it next time I sync. Favorite songs are flagged as five stars.

See ya
Steve

 

[hotsoda]

1035 songs on my iPod touch at the moment.

Albums are sorted by "Artist\Album\Track Number - Song Title".

Everything's encoded in 256kbps VBR AAC (iTunes encoder). Some songs have been transcoded from FLAC/Apple Lossless, and some are straight from the CD.

Of course, Radiohead's In Rainbows album is encoded in 160kbps MP3.

 

[dodap]

Quote:

Originally Posted by hotsoda /img/forum/go_quote.gif Albums are sorted by "Artist\Album\Track Number - Song Title"(

I am a bit surprised: So far I thought, that iPods can only be run via Tags, not by folder structure (at least with iTunes). This is, why I still have two Archos, where I either can browse through the folders or use the Tag-lists.

 

[hotsoda]

Quote:

Originally Posted by dodap /img/forum/go_quote.gif I am a bit surprised: So far I thought, that iPods can only be run via Tags, not by folder structure (at least with iTunes). This is, why I still have two Archos, where I either can browse through the folders or use the Tag-lists.

I'm talking about my folder structure on my computer, not what's displayed on my iPod.

As a side-note, I do prefer browsing music in an ID3 tag database instead of folders, especially since I can customize my view on the iPod.

 

[greydragon]

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigshot /img/forum/go_quote.gif I have seven iPods with nearly a year worth of music on them. Each iPod is linked to a different iTunes library by type of music... classical, jazz, rock n' roll, popular music, ethnic, country, soundtracks/library music. There are subcategories in each type and decade of music listed in the genre tag (jazz- 1940s big band, 1950s be bop, 1920s trad jazz, 1930s harlem jazz, etc.) This allows me to shuffle by decade or style. I try to preen my artists tags so they display properly in artist view. I don't worry about any other tags. As I listen, if I come across a song I don't want, I mark it one star and delete it next time I sync. Favorite songs are flagged as five stars. See ya Steve

Wow, 7 ipods! You sir, must really love your music

I would be even more impressed if you said they were all iModded

I have about 1.5K worth of songs that are mostly FLAC'ed. It's Rockboxed, and I like to view the albums by directory--alphabetized.

 

[Quaddy]

2042 flac tracks/542 mp3 - on my 60gb imod
traverse tracks via folder structure

 

[PouncePony]

Quote:

Originally Posted by dodap /img/forum/go_quote.gif I am a bit surprised: So far I thought, that iPods can only be run via Tags, not by folder structure (at least with iTunes). This is, why I still have two Archos, where I either can browse through the folders or use the Tag-lists.

With RockBox, you can browse by folder structure or ID tags. I use folders.

-Pony

 

[krmathis]

About 100 tracks (no exact number available atm), occupying ~3.5GB

 

[NeObliviscaris]

about 15,000 tracks on my 160gb iPod classic. No RockBox, so jsut using iPod sort. But have a lot of playlists!

 

[GreatDane]

6,420 songs,22.1 days,53.2 GB.

I have 11 playlists. I use mp3 and most of that is using LAME at highest quality vbr but I do have quite a few @ 128.

 

[sebascrub]

I have 5391 songs occupying about 33GB on my 5G 60GB iPod. I sort my tracks in iTunes via Album by Year

 

[mrarroyo]

2048 Apple Lossless files on my iModded 4th Gen iPod Photo (60 gB).