Comments on: Tips for Organizing Your Music Files

By: Casey Pursley

Casey Pursley — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:33:41 +0000

Okay, that was an inspiration to me. I am thinking of my own website

By: Brandon_Sheley

Brandon_Sheley — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:44:57 +0000

To reply to everyone comments.
My articles have improved since this one, I've been adding more links to resources and cutting out any work from the reader.
When I put this one up, I assumed users could google the software we spoke of.
I know itunes will do pretty much everything I spoke of, but I had also found freeware a year ago that did as well.
Anyways.. diggin up an old article, but just wanted to say thank you for the constructive criticism

By: Brandon_Sheley

Brandon_Sheley — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:44:00 +0000

To reply to everyone comments.
My articles have improved since this one, I’ve been adding more links to resources and cutting out any work from the reader.
When I put this one up, I assumed users could google the software we spoke of.
I know itunes will do pretty much everything I spoke of, but I had also found freeware a year ago that did as well.
Anyways.. diggin up an old article, but just wanted to say thank you for the constructive criticism

By: Art Vandalay

Art Vandalay — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:46:35 +0000

Hi Brandon,

I think Jeff's nuts. Although some of his points, and George's, are valid, I think he's a little bit of a zealot (relax man!... )... I appreciate your article. It was NOT useless. I have tons of MP3's, many which are not tagged correctly and a huge MISC folder with random songs... I just wanted to read what other people are doing to organize their MP3's. It was great to get your perspective on the topic.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Art

By: john

john — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:41:06 +0000

ok. so i have like 2000 songs on my ipod and itunes categorized my songs into useless and over specific categories (over 200 of them) so i would have to spend probably 10 hours manually assigning music categories and changing them. who has time for that crap!?? it’s been like 2 years and im still @ square 1 any suggestions????????

By: shakester

shakester — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:42:34 +0000

um, even if you enjoy/want to do all these steps, its still a pretty unhelpful article.
doesn’t mentions any utilities, apps or software. Gives no idea of tricks on how to do any of the things that it says one must do.

i mean, really.

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:47:54 +0000

Even Itunes is sucks at organizing cause it leaves tracees of little files everywhere. THis article is for the ones who ENJOY/WANT to do it themselves.

By: Art Vandalay

Art Vandalay — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:19:36 +0000

Hi Brandon,

I think Jeff’s nuts. Although some of his points, and George’s, are valid, I think he’s a little bit of a zealot (relax man!… )… I appreciate your article. It was NOT useless. I have tons of MP3′s, many which are not tagged correctly and a huge MISC folder with random songs… I just wanted to read what other people are doing to organize their MP3′s. It was great to get your perspective on the topic.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Art

By: George L

George L — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 02:18:55 +0000

Brandon,

I think the point Jeff was making was that if you download iTunes for free, it organizes all you’re music for you. It is way easier and faster than what you’re suggesting. If someone just used iTunes (and you don’t need to buy an ipod) it would organize their music so THEY could be spending their time doing things they really enjoy. If you don’t enjoy searching for music, you must have really hated the hours spent manually organizing your files. When iTunes organizes your music, it puts it all into one folder labeled “iTunes Music.” Then within that folder are subfolders with the names of the group/artist. Within the group/artist folder are more subfolders based on the specific album. Within each album folder are the actual music files. That couldn’t be more organized and it only takes a few clicks in iTunes.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:28:51 +0000

Hi Jeff,
They are just suggestions, I know once I orginized all my music and files on my PC, it’s a lot easier to find what I’m looking for.. This allows me more time to do the things I really enjoy, which searching for music isn’t one of them.

By: Jeff Horton

Jeff Horton — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:10:59 +0000

Gee, Brandon. This is really one of the more useless and, if one was to follow your instructions, tedious, articles I have read in a long time.

“you’ll want all of your music to be in one format so convert accordingly”? Please!!

“download a tagging utility and go through each file”?!?!

“Purchase music management software”?!?

Why don’t you just tell people to go to Apple.com and download the FREE iTunes software and manage your music files that way. All MP3 files, in addition to many other file formats, are compatible with iTunes. Yes, make playlists. iTunes will automatically consolidate all of your music files in an “iTunes Music” folder, listed by artist, alphabetically, and in each folder is a list of the albums, and in each album, a list of songs. It doesn’t get any easier. Your article is for the poor slobs who, on their PCs, abhor anything Apple.

I love seeing Apple software on PCs. (and aren’t there other free music management applications for PCs? Music Choice comes to mind.)