Hiya. If you are talking about naming the files themselves, eg. ID3 tags, theres a lot of stuff on the net about it. I find the auto-namers a little too daring for me, I prefer to modify what Freeddb etc gives me. As for filing on your hard disk....I would just turn it all over to the professionals.
I was very skeptical about using itunes....my main interest was great quality music at home not an ipod on the go after all. However, at first I tried to keep about 3k organized myself....mainly by genre...with one folder per genre. After a while this becomes too limited, because some genres like soundtracks include all types of music. As my collection grew to 6k (BTW I only keep songs I like and I mostly rip myself in 256 or 320) I gave itunes 6 another shot. From here I have never looked back. I took a hard gulp as I handed over filing entirely to itunes (in my music) - but this allowed me to find about 1000 duplicate songs. The greatest feature of itunes is playlists. Because itunes records when you last played the song, how many times you listened and how good you think it is you can create very interesting combinations (see //SmartPlaylists.com). Want to know who your favourite album is based on your airplay or ratings? Easy upload your itunes library to the iTunes Registry (http://www.itunesregistry.com/). This will even identify dupplicates by playing time....very clever. That another 100 duplicates gone! For me the power of playlists is quite amazing....and is likely to improve further with future releases (see also http://playlistmag.com/) -- ajmitchell ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ajmitchell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=800 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19615 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
