How do you manage your MP3 collection?

[Pabster]

I've got a ridiculous MP3 collection (100% legal, so don't ask...all from my personal CD collection) and I'm looking for a good piece of software to catalog it all and easily search through it. I've used ShufflePlay for a long time, but I'm wondering if there is something better out there? What is everyone else using?

 

[amnesiac]

I found one from PhatNoise that's pretty decent. It also rips and encodes as well as catalogues. I still use CDEx for ripping tho,

 

[Nefrodite]

does it use lame?

i just use directorys organized by music type. quite a mess actually

 

[Booster]

I don't use any third-party software. I have my MP3s organized by folders and it's quite easy to pick the ones I want with Winamp. I think any software just for managing MP3s would bug me.

 

[Magicthyse]

The best software I've found to do this - and yes, all my MP3's are from my CD collection too - is RealJukebox. Access is quick and easy. I actually paid for it.

I don't know how RealOne stacks up in this respect.

 

[Dedpuhl]

mp3boss

 

[Egrimm]

Originally posted by: Booster
I don't use any third-party software. I have my MP3s organized by folders and it's quite easy to pick the ones I want with Winamp.

 

[mpitts]

Windows Explorer & Winamp

 

[Mday]

well, since i dont have one, i dont =D

 

[djs1w]

Originally posted by: Pabster
I've got a ridiculous MP3 collection (100% legal, so don't ask...all from my personal CD collection) and I'm looking for a good piece of software to catalog it all and easily search through it. I've used ShufflePlay for a long time, but I'm wondering if there is something better out there? What is everyone else using?

Andromeda, it's web based.

 

[mk]

Originally posted by: mpitts
Windows Explorer & Winamp

(edit: don't have much of a mp3 collection anymore. removed around 25 gigs of mp3's from the hd earlier this year. )

 

[Derango]

I use an MP3 server running linux and apache/PHP and the andromeda script. It works well

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: Derango
I use an MP3 server running linux and apache/PHP and the andromeda script. It works well

i just installed andromeda last night, took all of 5 minutes , know i just have to get something that will rip my cd's well, i haven't had good luck with any program yet
if somebody wants to see what andromeda looks like, check mine out (only one cd on it right now) -> FoBoT's Andromeda MP3 Thingy

 

[ndee]

"How do you manage your MP3 collection?"
I don't. And it's quiet a mess with 3000+ Songs

 

[pulse8]

I just organize it into folders. Not really rocket science.

And *GASP* not all of mine are legal! :Q

 

[Derango]

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: Derango
I use an MP3 server running linux and apache/PHP and the andromeda script. It works well

i just installed andromeda last night, took all of 5 minutes , know i just have to get something that will rip my cd's well, i haven't had good luck with any program yet
if somebody wants to see what andromeda looks like, check mine out (only one cd on it right now) -> FoBoT's Andromeda MP3 Thingy

I'd post a link to mine...but I don't want to be ATOTed

 

[Supermercado]

Originally posted by: mpitts
Windows Explorer & Winamp

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: Derango

I'd post a link to mine...but I don't want to be ATOTed

hehe, i was sorta hoping to test my server/bandwidth by posting that, but i haven't seen squat on my server graphs, maybe i'll have to start a seperate thread to entice people to hammer it, but then i only have one cd on it

 

[m2kewl]

Originally posted by: ndee
"How do you manage your MP3 collection?" I don't. And it's quiet a mess with 3000+ Songs

When I run out of space, I just get another hdd! /really need to organize it! :disgust:

 

[Dudd]

I just take the songs I've gotten through Kazaa and use the built in player to listen to them. I just organise them by group and it works fine for me.

 

[Geekbabe]

musicmatch jukebox

 

[Cyco]

Originally posted by: pulse8
I just organize it into folders. Not really rocket science.

And *GASP* not all of mine are legal! :Q

Yep.

 

[Colt45]

They are all in this folder called "Music"

I guess i could go for some organization, but i just load the whole dir into winamp.

 

[kermalou]

i just file them into folders by the artist name and then by album title if any, and i have over 5,000 legal mp3s

 

[yakko]

I put them in a folder or on cd.