How do you organize your music on your playlist?
Jennifer
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How do your organize your music on your playlist (for iPad, Zune, WinAmp, iTunes, what-have-you)? Do you sort it alphabetically by name of album or by artist, or do you sort by genre, date of release, etc?
I sort mine by date of release. I've got my music organized from 1810-2012 and have it saved in my WinAmp playlist that way. Whenever I buy a new song, I sort it by date in WinAmp's Local Media list and then save my playlist again.
I sort mine by date of release. I've got my music organized from 1810-2012 and have it saved in my WinAmp playlist that way. Whenever I buy a new song, I sort it by date in WinAmp's Local Media list and then save my playlist again.
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I still use their software though. I use iTunes for my playlists. Works pretty well.
(2012-04-28.m3u was the last one I did, for example).
On my DS though, I copy over any songs I really, really like and then rename them so it's just the track name. So I guess you could say I sort them that way. You can get some really interesting song transitions that way!
So, you just have one giant music playlist?
I use WinAmp, but I don't use the "Local Media" tab, as it only shows one long uncategorized list.
I use the "Audio" tab underneath Local Media, and I have my music categorized into 3 columns: Genre; Album Artist; Album Art. (I also have the music sorted into folders on my HDD in a similar fashion.) I then have the tracks sorted by Year.
...also, I almost always only buy full albums (as mp3 from Amazon.) I don't buy single tracks because then I would have various albums in my Media Library with only one or two tracks.
If I download a random song from the net (for example, OCRemix songs) I put it in a folder called "Downloaded Music," which is not normally added to WinAmp, kept seperate from purchased music.
I also customize my music's tagged "genre" and "album artist" to suit my own purposes. As you can see below, the genres I use are very basic. Further, while I have a genre called Soundtrack, I have renamed all the Album Artist tags for soundtrack music to "Film Soundtrack" and "Game Soundtrack" to make albums easy to browse.
My primary tool for editing tags and filenames en masse is mp3tag. It's been really useful for reorganizing bunches of files in one shot, and doing things like re-numbering track numbers (I hate it when each track number shows the total number of tracks for its album (eg. "5/20"). oh, and also embedding album art into individual mp3s.
The mp3 player I use is a SanDisk Sansa Fuze, with Rockbox installed.
(Playlist wise)
Else I sort it into artist & album.
But once every 3 months I reset my whole play counters and listen to every song on my library in shuffle mode.
I still do this, but only for albums that deserve it.
I sometimes just play through an album or two if I know that is what I want to listen to. But often I am unsure exactly what it is I do want to listen to and that's when I usually just put a playlist on random. Also, my main playlist isn't that random in the first place, especially at the end which consists of roughly 40 of my current favourite songs, the ones I'm listening to the most.
I have only used shuffle a few times in the car when I wanted to listen to various songs on different albums by the same artist. So, I added all songs by said artist to my playlist and set it to shuffle. Granted, before I did this, I had already listened to all the songs on all the included albums in order multiple times in the past.
I do. I still shuffle though.
People would listen to albums if any Top 40's acts would release albums worth listening to. You get 3 played-to-death singles and ten filler tracks.
I can't wait for the whole electronic backing track thing to go away, nobody's doing it well. It just sounds coarse and sterile and assaults my ears. Whilst I listen to a lot of music with aggressive instrumentation like punk and all that craic, I literally cannot cope with the excess of todays mass market songs.
This for example is like the engineer just cranked all the EQ dials up to ten then buggered off for his lunch. Also the lyrics are total shit.
I don't do shuffle at all. Then again, most of my music collection consists of soundtracks so it would be rather jarring to use it.
(And the popular music in general...)
And when I get a new album I listen to it in full first.
But the shuffle is a nice way of keeping things fresh.
Sure I do skip a lot of songs, (ones I don't fancy listening to), but since a lot of songs are NOT from concept albums or instrumentals that follow a theme, or even soundtracks, then shuffle is good for me when I'm on the move.
(Easier to just plug in, shuffle all, and go in my opinon!
Why does this not surprise me at all?
I'm rather partial to Everything you Know is Wrong.
If I've recently bought some new tracks or an album, I'll sort by date added and start in that way.
If I'm feeling neglectful, I sort by date last played and look for the tracks that I've NEVER played since converting to digital.
If I'm feeling iconoclastic, I'll sort by song title and play various covers of a song, even when I only have some of these tracks because I couldn't originally find the version I was looking for.
Most of the time I set it on shuffle, pick something I know I like and let it go at random from there.