RE: (313) Digital Djing - Organization

2008-01-25 Thread Tristan Watkins
> -Original Message- > From: Jari Tolkkinen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 25 January 2008 12:29 > To: kent williams > Cc: Thor Teague; list 313 > Subject: Re: (313) Digital Djing - Organization > > On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, kent williams wrote: > > > T

Re: (313) Digital Djing - Organization

2008-01-25 Thread Jari Tolkkinen
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, kent williams wrote: The best strategy is to use the OS Search function to find all the loose MP3s on your machine, and marshal them into one place, where you can use a tool like 'Tag and Rename' to get the tags right. Then let iTunes (or some other librarian program) organiz

Re: (313) Digital Djing - Organization

2008-01-05 Thread P.A. Keur
Ik know. I started using that plugin since someone from this list mentioned it. But that probably was you. Keep up the good work! It`s been a great help to me. Peter On 1/4/08, Michael Pujos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Personally however I, prefer foobar2000, especially in combination > > wi

Re: (313) Digital Djing - Organization

2008-01-04 Thread Michael Pujos
Personally however I, prefer foobar2000, especially in combination with the foodiscogs plugin for tagging. :-D Pete Thanks for the mention as I wrote this plugin :) discussion/download/screenshots of foo_discogs: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=50523

Re: (313) Digital Djing - Organization

2008-01-04 Thread P.A. Keur
> If the new Winamp has a similar built-in Organization function, I may > ditch iTunes, though, since I don't have an iPod anymore. I've always > considered Winamp's sound fidelity to be superior. If you like winamp you`ll love this guide: http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/winamp/. It has a section o

Re: (313) Digital Djing - Organization

2008-01-04 Thread kent williams
The best strategy is to use the OS Search function to find all the loose MP3s on your machine, and marshal them into one place, where you can use a tool like 'Tag and Rename' to get the tags right. Then let iTunes (or some other librarian program) organize them for you... On Jan 4, 2008 10:29 AM,

Re: (313) Digital Djing - Organization

2008-01-04 Thread Thor Teague
Yeah. I learned that the hard way. Exacerbating the problem, in my case, was the fact that iTunes eats long filenames when it imports an mp3 into the library. So I had 50 files named "Host" - The Mechanica[1-50].mp3... or something. Trying to figure out airdates of 10+ year old radio shows is not a

Re: (313) Digital Djing - Organization

2008-01-04 Thread kent williams
IF (and only IF) your MP3s are all properly tagged by artist and album, ITunes will do a good job of 1) finding them all over your computer and 2) building a directory tree with all the files sorted by artist/album. Of course, what really happens is that you end up with 300 hours of music by 'unkn

Re: (313) Digital Djing - Organization

2008-01-04 Thread carlile
I've got a pretty small record collection that I sort by "vibe" but way too many mp3s strewn all over the place in different folders due to often restoring my pc from a backup image. I'm curious as to how you guys are organizing all your digital music? -Jim