Music Discovery Review: Critical Metrics

This is going to be the easiest post I will ever write… Three words… Critical Metrics. Go.

Published by neal on May 25th, 2007 | Comment now »

Organize Your Music Files: Part I

So now that you have found some new music and amassed a terribly large collection of Mp3’s (in my case, 80 GB’s worth), the question becomes, how do you organize and listen to all those songs?

I have a few suggestions to help you organize all that data into something listenable.

Note: The first-first step when doing anything with your Mp3’s, should be to back them up. External hard drives are cheap and easy to use. Don’t be scared. Go get one and hook it up, before doing anything else. Also, I use iTunes, so many of my suggestions are iTunes-centric, and may or may not work with some other player/libraries.

Part I: Fix the tags - In most cases, you’re probably going to have some tag issues. You don’t have all the album artwork, your songs have incorrect track names, etc. This is probably the hardest part of organizing your collection. There really isn’t an easy fix to this problem. You will, at some point, have to go in there and make some changes. (Arrrgggghh!!!) There are, however, some ways to make this process a little less time consuming and frustrating.

Published by neal on May 15th, 2007 | Comment now »