This is one for Ads and the others who use external Hard Drives for their laptops.
I have now purchased a large external H/D (160Gig) and before I go throwing all my backups onto it want to avoid any pitfalls along the way.
My question is this..... I realise i have to ensure every single tag is correct as I require them thats obvious, but do you then store all tracks as one big alphabetical database, do you make folders eg. Abba, Beatles, Stones etc or what?
As far as I can ascertain my preferred player Mixmeister prefers to access one defined place rather than sub folders etc but maybe I missed something.
Anyway guys and gals your ideas please before I make some silly mistake which results in me formatting the darn thing and starting over??
Spin
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I organize mine by this:
Music/Albums
Music/Singles
Music/Unknown
Music/Playlists
Albums i put in like G-Unit - Beg For Mercy
Singles i put like G-Unit - Stunt 101
Uknown i would put track 11
playlists - i put like "hip-hop mix"
i use winamp, windows media player, and real one, all dun seem to care about subfolders.
Music/Albums
Music/Singles
Music/Unknown
Music/Playlists
Albums i put in like G-Unit - Beg For Mercy
Singles i put like G-Unit - Stunt 101
Uknown i would put track 11
playlists - i put like "hip-hop mix"
i use winamp, windows media player, and real one, all dun seem to care about subfolders.
Spin, I don't see that you would organise an external hard-drive any different from a 2nd internal hard-drive? unless I'm missing something that you've said?
I'm not familiar with Mixmeister but I organise my hard drive into the following folders:
60's
60's soul (this contains a sub-folder called Northern Soul)
70's (this contains 2 sub-folders for Glam & Punk)
80's
90's
Classical
Indie
House (contains sub-folders for US Garage, UK Garage & D&B)
Jazz (contains sub-folder for Blues)
Latin
Oldies
Pop
R&B (contains sub-folder for Acid-jazz)
Rap
Reggae (contains sub-folders for ska, lovers-rock)
Rock
Rock&Roll
Soul
World
if the sub-folders don't work for you then you could always just have a different folder for each music genre, so rather than having 19 folders some of which contain sub-folders you could have say 29 folders.
Out of interest, how have you organised the music on your hard-drive for the past few years?
I'm not familiar with Mixmeister but I organise my hard drive into the following folders:
60's
60's soul (this contains a sub-folder called Northern Soul)
70's (this contains 2 sub-folders for Glam & Punk)
80's
90's
Classical
Indie
House (contains sub-folders for US Garage, UK Garage & D&B)
Jazz (contains sub-folder for Blues)
Latin
Oldies
Pop
R&B (contains sub-folder for Acid-jazz)
Rap
Reggae (contains sub-folders for ska, lovers-rock)
Rock
Rock&Roll
Soul
World
if the sub-folders don't work for you then you could always just have a different folder for each music genre, so rather than having 19 folders some of which contain sub-folders you could have say 29 folders.
Out of interest, how have you organised the music on your hard-drive for the past few years?
I use Ots and storage my collection on my hard drive under 'Music', when I save an album, I do just that, rip it and save it under 'Simple Minds - Greatest Hits' then save it under the music folder, so when I open that folder I have x amount of files in there, each one an album.
Does that make sense ?
Does that make sense ?
Hi
When I had music on my hard drive, lol, but we won't go there...I had it organised thus:
Eights...then Albums, most greatest hits. then folders 1-big, big-das etc etc.
Same for Seventies, sixties etc
Darren
When I had music on my hard drive, lol, but we won't go there...I had it organised thus:
Eights...then Albums, most greatest hits. then folders 1-big, big-das etc etc.
Same for Seventies, sixties etc
Darren
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Tony
You were'nt misunderstanding me at all. I used to rip to my desktop pc, tag edit, clean up etc then burn them to mp3 back up discs, which get carried around in a case logic back up case.
Because of the small size of the H/D The only thing kept on the laptop was stuff I use week in week out (party dances, sixties mix etc plus the latest chart singles) or if i was specifically asked for x and x at a wedding they would also be importd to the laptop.
Should you come up and ask for something at a gig and I know I have it then invariably if its not on the laptop its in the backups.........(but which one of umpteen discs)
Now I have this external I want everything on one hard drive which can be connected to either the desktop or the laptop for the purposes of ease of storage.
It then occurred to me that with god knows how many gigs of music if somebody does ask at a gig for something I could be scrolling through the alphabet forever just to find one track and wondered how others organised theirs before I do it!
Regards
Spin
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Spin I do the same as most of the others , one main folder then into sub folders, the search facilty on your chosen player should instantly find any song as fast as you can type in a name , i dont use any thing fancier then the new Winamp 5.01, as I only use it for requests and not as the main player , I still like playing around with Cd's yet
Almost forgot , when I back up my laptop I just do a direct copy of the main music folder and subs from my laptop hd to the external drive , copy/paste works fine for me
I use Mixmeister too + laptop + eternal hard drive.
The albums and singles are all just bunged on the hard drive in any order and then you import them in mixmeister and that sorts it all out for you, As Ninelives says the search facilty on the program will find what ever you type so no scroling through 1000's of tunes. As long as you type it EXACTLY right!
The albums and singles are all just bunged on the hard drive in any order and then you import them in mixmeister and that sorts it all out for you, As Ninelives says the search facilty on the program will find what ever you type so no scroling through 1000's of tunes. As long as you type it EXACTLY right!
Surely you can just use a wildcard character (*)?
I've never used Mixmeister, I use BPM Studio and if for example I was doing a search on any tracks that contained the word "fish"
I would just type:
"*fish*" and that would find any tracks that contained the word fish in the title.
I would guess that Mixmeister would do the same?
I've never used Mixmeister, I use BPM Studio and if for example I was doing a search on any tracks that contained the word "fish"
I would just type:"*fish*" and that would find any tracks that contained the word fish in the title.
I would guess that Mixmeister would do the same?
Ooooo Tony I don't know............... never thought of using a wildcard before!
Spin
Spin
In mixmeister 4 ( which I use ) you don/t need the asterisks you would just type fish to get all songs with fish in. Really easy LOL
Hayd
Hayd
Anyone else using an iMac? I use iTunes which has an "intelligent folder" device.
You make a folder and set any parimeter you want, artist, title,album, inside leg, andall songs with this parimeter appear in the folder.........hmmmmmmmm does it for me, and sets the crossfade while i swig orange juice.
You make a folder and set any parimeter you want, artist, title,album, inside leg, andall songs with this parimeter appear in the folder.........hmmmmmmmm does it for me, and sets the crossfade while i swig orange juice.
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