storing / managing mp3s
 

I'm thinking of getting an mp3 player. I'm in the process of converting all my cds and the files are starting to add up. How do others keep track of their mp3s? All on the hard drive of your pc? Some backed off / burned to cds?

I just store them on the hard drive . One thing i HAVE learned , don't copy from cd to cd , it chopes up the music , copy the files to HD then to CD

Badly, I'm afraid...

Grab a program called "Tag&Rename"

It's excellent for organising your collection and assigning all the proper song and album names.

iTunes does a marvelous job of keeping everything organized on OSX. It creates folder structures for each artist and album, and moves your collection all into one large library folder. Makes it very easy to maintain.

Get a second physical drive, better yet a USB or Firewire external drive. Having had numerous crashes and being forced to wipe and reinstall from the manufacturers disk, I have learned that a second drive is a safer alternative.

BTW, Tag & Rename is $30 to buy. What is the difference between the free/sample version and the paid version?

Wouldn't know, I stole it.

:ninja:


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The previous message, and all messages before it, have been fiction, except where the author doesn't stand to get arrested, in which case they were fiction based on truth in such a way that they cease to be fictitious.

No programs here were actually stolen. In truth, I'm just an innocent lamb.

I pretty much keep everything in a flat file on my hard drive, and duplicated on a second hard drive.

If you're on windows you want EAC - Exact Audio Copy and the LAME encoder which I think comes with it these days. Makes the entire process one-click and the quality is perfect. On mac, heck, just use iTunes, it does an equally good job, encode to MP3, AAC or Apple Lossless and bingo.

I just back up my entire HD to an external drive every now an then, MP3s and all.

Haven't had a problem going disc to disc with Roxio Easy Creator 5. :confused:

I'm in the process of ripping all my CDs with CDex...the mp3's go into one location on my HD for easy finding.

If you don't mind spending a lttle money, Mood Logic is the way to go as far as managing, naming, etc. is concerned.

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Backed up to CD/DVD, installed to hard drive at home and work, and to a Creative Jukebox. Tags cleaned and polished with http://www.id3-tagit.de/.