Yeah. I learned that the hard way. Exacerbating the problem, in my case, was the fact that iTunes eats long filenames when it imports an mp3 into the library. So I had 50 files named "Host" - The Mechanica[1-50].mp3... or something. Trying to figure out airdates of 10+ year old radio shows is not an easy task.
However, iTune's organization functions are preferable to doing it by hand. If you have vinyl rips, just do them in bite size-chunks, make a playlist to hold stuff that you import, and get everything named & whatnot. I keep discogs open in a seperate window and pull album art over too, nowadays. If the new Winamp has a similar built-in Organization function, I may ditch iTunes, though, since I don't have an iPod anymore. I've always considered Winamp's sound fidelity to be superior. If you're on a mac or own an iPod, disregard that last statement. On Jan 4, 2008 10:22 AM, kent williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IF (and only IF) your MP3s are all properly tagged by artist and > album, ITunes will do a good job of 1) finding them all over your > computer and 2) building a directory tree with all the files sorted by > artist/album. > > Of course, what really happens is that you end up with 300 hours of > music by 'unknown artist' that you have to go back and do forensic > re-tagging to get things into a semblance of order ;-) > > > On Jan 4, 2008 10:12 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've got a pretty small record collection that I sort by "vibe" but way too > > many > > mp3s strewn all over the place in different folders due to often restoring > > my pc > > from a backup image. I'm curious as to how you guys are organizing all your > > digital music? > > > > -Jim > > >
