So I decided to go digital with my music collection about 6 months ago when I got my iPod. I have about 65gb (15,000+) in MP3s, and the whole organization thing is really getting tough. Anyone have any tips?
I had been using MusicMatch for a long time, but switched over to iTunes, which I find is a lot better for managing huge amounts of music.
But iTunes still doesn't really do it for me. The main issue is genres: I don't try to get too specific with categorizing stuff because I do it for my own use in making playlists, not as some academic exercise.
But still, it would be nice to assign two or three genres to something instead of just 1. i.e., I have all my shoegazing stuff under "Dream Pop", but I also have stuff like Yo La Tengo and Sigur Ros under there too. I don't want to get too specific and have like 150 genres with really specific shit like Shoegaze, Slowcore, and Riotgrrrl, but it's also frustrating having hundreds of very different albums under "Indie Rock" or "Dream Pop". It would also be nice to tag something as "lo-fi" or some shit like that too.
So the question is: what is better for organizing large amounts of crap than iTunes? Is it possible to tag multiple genres with anything else?
ps: anyone else use grouper (
www.grouper.com)? It's a great program for transferring among friends, but for some reason you can't transfer MP3s, so I switched all my shit over to .M4A ... PM me if you want an invite, especially if you got a lot to share...