How do you store and organise your music?

AdrianR · 12-09-2006 11:41am #1

I currently have some of my albums on my PC in MP3 format, I'm converting some more at work but I only have the option of WMA format due to instillation restrictions etc. I'm wondering what's the best format? something tells me it's MP3, I don't have an IPOD btw, probably wouldn't bother with one unless there was some way of plugging it into the car stereo, which there isn't at the moment. However I am finding that Windows media player doesn't seem to have any problem finding the album info like album/artist/track title and album art. It seems to default to a foulder per album but one foulder per artist. What are your thoughts?

sarahn11 · 12-09-2006 12:57pm

im having this problem also, i have a tonne of album folders... and theres no way of just sticking it on random while playing...and for some reason its picking up 2 or 3 files for the same song....

actually in not mad on the way that mce handles music at all!

jozi · 12-09-2006 1:11pm

I've got all my music organised Artist/Album/(Tracks)

I dont have MCE thou. I used CDEX to rip cd's to mp3's, it uses the LAME mp3 codec. More recently started using EAC also with the LAME mp3 codec.

I use The GodFather to tag mp3's i download or get of others, works fine for small numbers of files, I can also organise your music into directories, few ways of tagging tracks and a lot stuff i havent found yet. Doesnt work with wma's btw, fine with most other file formats

Also found mediamonkey to be hand for mass tagging/re-naming mp3s.

As for car stereo's, my brothers has a usb port for connecting mp3 players or usb memory keys dont think he ever tried it thou.

Makaveli · 12-09-2006 1:24pm

If size isn't a problem I'd go with FLAC as it's lossless, otherwise V0 (alt preset extreme) mp3 ripped using EAC and encoded with Lame 3.97b.

Here's a great guide on configuring EAC http://users.pandora.be/satcp/eac-qs-en.htm .

Organise my music using the same structure as jozi. Use Tag & Rename to tag fix tags as it can do it in batches.

AdrianR · 14-09-2006 4:21pm

EAC also with the LAME mp3 codec.

I downloaded these and I'm pretty impressed with all the options you get etc. I'm having trouble downloading the album info but there is an option to paste from the clipboard so you can get the tracks from virtually anywhere and tweak it in notepad if necessary, which is really handy.

cooperguy · 17-09-2006 5:40pm

AdrianR wrote:

I don't have an IPOD btw, probably wouldn't bother with one unless there was some way of plugging it into the car stereo, which there isn't at the moment.

This would work if you got an Ipod:
http://cgi.ebay.com/GRIFFIN-ITRIP-NEW-FM-FOR-IPOD-20gb-30gb-40gb-60gb-WHITE_W0QQitemZ180028797647QQihZ008QQcategoryZ73836QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Or if you had a bit more sense and decided to go for an MP3 player that wasnt an ipod and get value for your money this would work:
http://cgi.ebay.com/BELKIN-F8V3080-TUNECAST-II-MOBILE-FM-TRANSMITTER_W0QQitemZ150034270403QQihZ005QQcategoryZ86537QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

How do you store and organise your music?

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