[HulkSmashNow]

Wow, Orcin, just wow...

I thought I was bad about songs and playlists. I use drag and drop with my RCA Lyra RD-2763FM (AKA Ole Blue), so I just drag whole directories of songs onto it. They're arranged in and play in alphabetical order, but I've organized them in a way that feels and sounds more random than that.

Mostly, I use 128kbps, which sounds great to me, and I only carry around a few albums on my Lyra (including the unsung Spider-Man: Rock Reflections of a Superhero and the semi-legendary Songs and Stories of the Justice League of America).

I'm still just amazed that I can carry around all of this music at any time. It's a long way from those mixtapes I recorded on cassettes just a little over ten years ago!

 

[terriblepaulz]

2224 tracks in Apple Lossless, using approx. 64 GB of 74 available.

I primarily shuffle either the while collection or within a genre. I only use 9 genres for pretty diverse collection, so even within a genre, I get a nice variety.

It's pretty simple to move CDs on and off the iPod, so there are some CDs I always keep on, and the rest gets cycled through as I please.

 

[RickB]

Currently, I have 13,092 tracks on my 80GB Classic with about 4GB free. All of the tracks are at least 192K VBR except for Radiohead's In Rainbows

. Most of my tracks are from eMusic and I've been a member there since the Unlimited days.

My music on the computer is organized into Artist/Album folders. I only listen to full albums, and that's what goes onto my iPod.

Rick

 

[ozz]

982 all in lossless on 28g some complete albums some a few songs
taken from various albums.

 

[Arainach]

18,375. All LAME MP3 (-V0 for the ones I ripped myself or converted from lossless, usually 192 or greater on everything else). 160GB Classic.

I put full albums on my iPod because I fit my entire collection on there and I don't keep anything but full albums in my collection. I primarily sort Genre -> Artist -> Album -> Track, but frequently use the "Shuffle All Tracks" feature.

 

[in_utero]

I have 2943 songs... sill missing 6,000 more files (damn my computer AND back-up crashing at the same time) ...

Anyways, I just sort them by Artist/ Album/ Track number.

Since I'm currently rocking an iPod nano, I basically pick whatever I feel like in the morning and try to jam it on there, and hopefully I don't need to delete anything...

 

[Denver Max]

Quote:

Originally Posted by in_utero /img/forum/go_quote.gif I have 2943 songs... sill missing 6,000 more files (damn my computer AND back-up crashing at the same time) ... Anyways, I just sort them by Artist/ Album/ Track number. Since I'm currently rocking an iPod nano, I basically pick whatever I feel like in the morning and try to jam it on there, and hopefully I don't need to delete anything...

Ahh that happened to me this summer, I feel your pain. I had almost 20,000 tracks in iTunes, 10 folders sorting a huge amount of playlists up. Now I'm sitting at around 2,500. Don't ever try to run iTunes off a USB network hard disk, it ruined my music library!

To look on the bright side, I hope you've used the rebuilding to your advantage.

I now have album art for EVERY album. I have EVERYTHING in Apple Lossless this time (and a separate identical Mp3 VBR library to feed to my 1st gen iPod and 2nd gen iPod shuffle). My genres are EXACTLY how I want them to be.

I even went to the extent of hunting down the producer's name of every album (or even down to each song I have of hip-hop), and in the "Comments" section when ripping I put the record label that the CD I purchased was released on.

 

[weste47]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Orcin /img/forum/go_quote.gif I have 3098 songs (approx 21GB) - 90% ripped at 256vbr via iTunes. I keep primarily complete albums (roughly 250 of them). I rate all of my songs as follows: 5 = love it, 4 = really like it, 3 = like it, 2 = don't really care for it, 1 = strongly dislike it. Out of the 3098 songs, I have roughly 500 5's and 1000 4's. I use playlists to do most of my listening. I probably have 300 playlists, so I almost never use the artist/album/song menus. As examples of what I do with the playlists, I might re-order the songs on a greatest hits collection to put them in chronological sequence or omit a one-star song from an album (ex: revolution #9 omitted from white album). I have a smart playlist that I call IPOD-FM which randomly selects 5-star songs that I have not heard recently, just in case I have no idea of what to listen to... I usually find an album within 2-3 songs from this playlist. I also made an album (called "Singles") from 150 one-hit wonder songs that I mostly bought from iTunes. I made a few playlists from this group according to time period. There's a lot of 5's in that list as you might imagine since I specifically went looking for the song. I am pretty anal about my playcounts also. I reset all of my playcounts about a year ago. I made a smart playlist called "never played" and worked it until it was empty. It took me a few months to get through the entire collection and in the process I weeded out a few albums that had all 3's or at best one 4-5 that got moved to the singles collection. My highest playcount is 5 or 6 - I tend to cycle through my collection one album or artist at a time rather than playing the same song on repeat (I never do that). I love smart playlists. They are pretty useful for me since I am so anal about my tags, ratings, and playcounts. Sometimes, I will make a temporary playlist such as all songs by the Beatles rated 5 that I haven't played in the past 90 days (sort of my own greatest hits compilation). This is probably WAY more information than you wanted but I like to talk about this subject.

haha, sheesh thats a lot of organizing.

 

[epaludo]

I have a brand new Ipod Classic 160GB which i started to fill up with my music collection a couple of days ago.
Currently it have 2477 songs using 35,23 GB. My favorites albums are in Apple Lossless, others VBR lame MP3 files (most V2 or V0) ...

 

[Orcin]

Quote:

Originally Posted by weste47 /img/forum/go_quote.gif haha, sheesh thats a lot of organizing.

Yeah, the key word in my post is "anal".

 

[mrdeadfolx]

7,534 songs on both my 80 gig ipod and 160 gig ipod classic, ranging everywhere from 128 kbps to lossless, depending on priority. I sort the songs by title, album, artist, the whole 9. I try to have the entire descriptive field filled out, and I have album art for every album that actually has it, short of demos and singles.

 

[Low Fidelity]

9,464

everything is 256+ kbps. I rip from FLAC at v0.

Everything is sorted by artist. Wish I could sort Albums by release date. Sometimes its hard to see Van Hargar infront of Van Roth, if you know what I mean. I could go through my library (saved on a server drive) and retag every album...

 

[Sparky191]

I've about 145GB, which is about 32,000 files. How many are music files and how many are other files I have no idea. Most of it is MP3's 128~320kbps. Its does need a big cull but I'd say I'd get it down to about 60~80GBs if I spent a bit of time going through it. Theres probably duplicates and albums which I no longer listen to in there aswell. Its more of a store of all my music and my better halfs stuff aswell. I've never got around to clearing it out.

I mainly use file tree, Genre>Artist> Album, or Genre>Album for compilations, soundtracks etc. But I use tags a bit aswell for use with different players. I use MediaMonkey and have a few smaller capacity players. I commute a lot so I listen to alot of music there. I mainly listen to it in the computer, and at work. Thinking of getting an iPod Classic and using it to see what I'm actually listening to and what I'm not.