I've garnered so much info from this forum that I thought I'd give back and offer some neat ideas I've used to help me get my music organized on my PC's iTunes. My library has all of my music, but it also has my wife's and daughter's. It was cumbersome to scroll thru the entire library when I wanted to build myself a playlist. So I went ahead and created a second library for the "Girls Music." Unfortunately, I could no longer build a playlist with a variety of all of our music for family cookouts, etc. (I could only choose songs from ONE of the libraries.) So I reverted back to the one-library for all method, but came up with some ways to keep it organized.
SEPERATING MUSIC FOR EACH USER: I wanted to keep my albums separate from the girls', so I decided to alter the seldom-used "GENRE" category. Each song's genre is now either 1-Steve, 2-Family or 3-Girls. Then I choose ALBUM view and sort by genre then artist. Now when I want to browse my music, I can scroll thru just my albums first.
GROUPING SINGLES: It also was cumbersome when one of your favorite artists has one song on a soundtrack or as a single, and it separates itself from the rest of that artist's songs. So I change the properties of those songs so that they are tracks 51, 52, 53... of their closest album, like they are bonus tracks. (i.e. Sheryl Crow's "Real Gone" from the 2006 "Cars" soundtrack becomes track 51 of her 2008 "Detours" album.) This method also allows for fewer albums to browse (especially when loaded onto your iPhone.)
ONLY LIKE ONE OR TWO SONGS FROM ARTIST'S ALBUMS: So often bands' early albums or Past-Their-Prime albums yield only one or two songs you like. Just like the above example, it adds lots of albums to your library when browsing. So I've grouped those songs to my own "Best Of Early Years" or "Late Years" albums of those artists. Or, in some cases, an artist has lots of albums to their resume, but you only like their 10 to 12 hits. So make your own greatest hits of just those songs and when browsing you only see one album of those songs instead of six albums, each with just one or two songs.
USING RATINGS TO HELP BUILD PLAYLISTS: It's quite time consuming to rate every song, but very helpful for building playlists. For example, I have a 2-hour project at home and want to build a playlist to listen to while working. I feel like listening to Genesis. I dump all their songs into my "Work" playlist, but it is six-hours long! So I sort by rating then eliminate all the one-star and two-star songs and it's down to 2 hours. Viola! I then re-sort the playlist by album so they return to chronological order -- which is how I like to listen to my favorite artists (Can you hear me i-Phone engineers!!!)
ONE-HIT WONDERS: Even after all the above sorting methods I am still left with hundreds of songs from the fifties to today by hundreds of different artists. So I built my own "Hits Of The Seventies," "Eighty's," "Classic Rock" etc. compilations. I drag the songs for each category into my "Sorting Bin" playlist, the select the entire list, and change the song info so that they are all from the same "Hits Of" album - I even image-search for album artwork for my fictional compilation album. However, in song view, these will not sort by the artists like I prefer. So I change the track number so that artists that begin with "A" are all track one, "B" are all track 2, etc. They now sort in pseudo-artist order.
If anyone has anything to add or any insight into these ideas, please post in a reply.
SEPERATING MUSIC FOR EACH USER: I wanted to keep my albums separate from the girls', so I decided to alter the seldom-used "GENRE" category. Each song's genre is now either 1-Steve, 2-Family or 3-Girls. Then I choose ALBUM view and sort by genre then artist. Now when I want to browse my music, I can scroll thru just my albums first.
GROUPING SINGLES: It also was cumbersome when one of your favorite artists has one song on a soundtrack or as a single, and it separates itself from the rest of that artist's songs. So I change the properties of those songs so that they are tracks 51, 52, 53... of their closest album, like they are bonus tracks. (i.e. Sheryl Crow's "Real Gone" from the 2006 "Cars" soundtrack becomes track 51 of her 2008 "Detours" album.) This method also allows for fewer albums to browse (especially when loaded onto your iPhone.)
ONLY LIKE ONE OR TWO SONGS FROM ARTIST'S ALBUMS: So often bands' early albums or Past-Their-Prime albums yield only one or two songs you like. Just like the above example, it adds lots of albums to your library when browsing. So I've grouped those songs to my own "Best Of Early Years" or "Late Years" albums of those artists. Or, in some cases, an artist has lots of albums to their resume, but you only like their 10 to 12 hits. So make your own greatest hits of just those songs and when browsing you only see one album of those songs instead of six albums, each with just one or two songs.
USING RATINGS TO HELP BUILD PLAYLISTS: It's quite time consuming to rate every song, but very helpful for building playlists. For example, I have a 2-hour project at home and want to build a playlist to listen to while working. I feel like listening to Genesis. I dump all their songs into my "Work" playlist, but it is six-hours long! So I sort by rating then eliminate all the one-star and two-star songs and it's down to 2 hours. Viola! I then re-sort the playlist by album so they return to chronological order -- which is how I like to listen to my favorite artists (Can you hear me i-Phone engineers!!!)
ONE-HIT WONDERS: Even after all the above sorting methods I am still left with hundreds of songs from the fifties to today by hundreds of different artists. So I built my own "Hits Of The Seventies," "Eighty's," "Classic Rock" etc. compilations. I drag the songs for each category into my "Sorting Bin" playlist, the select the entire list, and change the song info so that they are all from the same "Hits Of" album - I even image-search for album artwork for my fictional compilation album. However, in song view, these will not sort by the artists like I prefer. So I change the track number so that artists that begin with "A" are all track one, "B" are all track 2, etc. They now sort in pseudo-artist order.
If anyone has anything to add or any insight into these ideas, please post in a reply.
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