What's your music organization program of choice?

[genEus]

I tried iTunes and stopped in 5 minutes because it made no sense to me whatsoever and made things just more confusing. What do you think is the best music organization software package out there? Thanks

 

[Schadenfroh]

I use Windows Media Player 10 for music, this is the only version of WMP that i have ever liked.

 

[Lonyo]

Windows Explorer.

 

[genEus]

Originally posted by: Lonyo
Windows Explorer.

Heh. How many gigs of music do you have? I have about 31GB and I've realized that Explorer doesn't give an audiophile much flexibility at all. Afterall, if that were all we needed, there wouldn't be all the music organization programs out there that exist...

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: genEus

Originally posted by: Lonyo
Windows Explorer.

Heh. How many gigs of music do you have? I have about 31GB and I've realized that Explorer doesn't give an audiophile much flexibility at all. Afterall, if that were all we needed, there wouldn't be all the music organization programs out there that exist...

About 30 gigs of music

 

[Modeps]

iTunes, if your MP3s are properly tagged, nothing beats it.

 

[Ecgtheow]

I've been using iTunes for almost five years now. It's the tops.

 

[genEus]

Originally posted by: Ecgtheow
I've been using iTunes for almost five years now. It's the tops.

Must it convert MP3 files into the AAC format or no?

 

[Modeps]

Originally posted by: genEus

Originally posted by: Ecgtheow
I've been using iTunes for almost five years now. It's the tops.

Must it convert MP3 files into the AAC format or no?

AAC is the default, but you can do MP3.

 

[genEus]

Originally posted by: Modeps

Originally posted by: genEus

Originally posted by: Ecgtheow
I've been using iTunes for almost five years now. It's the tops.

Must it convert MP3 files into the AAC format or no?

AAC is the default, but you can do MP3.

Does Nano play MP3s? (if I were to ever surrender and buy an Apple product in the future)

 

[clamum]

I use file folders

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: genEus
Does Nano play MP3s? (if I were to ever surrender and buy an Apple product in the future)

Yes.

 

[Supermercado]

Explorer. All I have ever and will ever need.

 

[silent tone]

winamp

 

[Leros]

I use file folders, but I prefer the winamp library.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

I play music with Foobar2000, but I organize my mp3s with Windows Explorer.

C:\My Music\Artist\Album\Song.mp3

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: Garth
I play music with Foobar2000, but I organize my mp3s with Windows Explorer.

C:\My Music\Artist\Album\Song.mp3

I have a nearly similiar method:

D:\Music\Artist\Albums (year)\# - song.mp3

ex) D:\Music\Dream Theater\Images and Words (1992)\01 - Pull Me Under.mp3

 

[genEus]

See I have a lot of music that I don't really know by name, a lot of old salsa songs that I downloaded and that I cannot find the source CD of, etc, so I also want a rating system. Also, I want a good and fast searching mechanism that would search both the ID3 tags and filenames, something Windows won't do. So those are the reasons why I can't just leave files the way they are anymore... It's becoming harder and harder to find what I want.

 

[CKent]

Originally posted by: genEus

Originally posted by: Lonyo
Windows Explorer.

Heh. How many gigs of music do you have? I have about 31GB and I've realized that Explorer doesn't give an audiophile much flexibility at all. Afterall, if that were all we needed, there wouldn't be all the music organization programs out there that exist...

You're claiming audiophilia and bothering with programs that don't support ASIO / Kernel Streaming?

Anyway, I organize a large collection using Windows Explorer. I use foobar2000 with a lot of DSP when I want to listen critically to music, or when I'm not doing anything on my PC... but that eats up a lot of CPU cycles, so if I'm doing any video encoding or playing WoW, I just use Winamp instead, on default settings, rather than muck up my settings in foobar.

 

[BFG10K]

WMP10.

 

[sandorski]

iTunes

 

[Beef Taco]

This thread screams for some pollage, and I use iTunes and WMP10.

 

[Slogun]

Originally posted by: Lonyo
Windows Explorer.

Me too.
Each artist has a folder and then a folder for each album.
I play em with either itunes or WMP.

Whatever you do, don't let itunes rearrange your library. It puts everything into cryptic folders.

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: Slogun

Originally posted by: Lonyo
Windows Explorer.

Me too.
Each artist has a folder and then a folder for each album.
I play em with either itunes or WMP.

Whatever you do, don't let itunes rearrange your library. It puts everything into cryptic folders.

You sure about that? All my iTunes organized music are in folders organized by Artist/Album

 

[OCedHrt]

I also use Windows Explorer

41GB audio, 162GB video

I have a slightly more complex naming scheme: [Artist]\[Date] Album\Album - [Disc].Track - Artist - Title

[] are optional, depends entirely on the album.