1kyle Posted October 5, 2008 Report Share Posted October 5, 2008 (edited) Hi gurusI'm sure I'm not the only one with this problem. I've probably ripped around 1000 cd's, plus loads of recordings, own compilations etc etc --I'm not even sure what I've got now.How do you guys organize HUGE collections and how can you find anything.As a Pro photographer I had a similar problem with digital photos but there is quite a lot of good software out there usually quite cheap and can use free DB's such as MySQL. Digital photos contain identifying tags which perform a similar purpose to music tags - such as subject, camer, exposure details etc etc.I'd love something easy like this for music -- however it seems basically because music "downloading" or "ripping" has always been frowned on by the music industry there's no good cheap library / music organising software out there. (Professional bradcasting stuff is another story but that's way over the top for my application and probably costs a fortune as well). Note I don't want to convert tracks into "propietary internal data base formats" as it is impossible to recover if the data base gets corrupted or broken and I need to be able to span volumes.currently I have music arranged on a private network like this --but just have to use Windows explorer to get what I want --not very good.This has grown to rather unmanageable proportions so I'm open to suggestions -- I'm talking here of a collection containing around 30,000 tracks (or equivalent)Cheers-K Edited October 5, 2008 by 1kyle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strungup Posted October 5, 2008 Report Share Posted October 5, 2008 I subjugate everything to Specific Folders , instead of one big Database , I have a 300 gb drive that contains about half of the Stage 6 Website before it went down . So Movies by type in one folder , Music vids by type in another , then also subfolders with each , by artist , etc . On mac I have a prog called "Folder Glance " which allows me to open the whole nested series with one klik , it opens to a tree type tier Quik scroll and I am at whatever I want . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jupitreas Posted October 6, 2008 Report Share Posted October 6, 2008 Use Winamp's library... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1kyle Posted October 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2008 (edited) Use Winamp's library...Hi thereThat's a HIDEOUS solution -- it breaks the first rule --NEVER EVER put your music into some proprertary closed data base scheme -- the Winamp DB also can get broken and doesn't really work with multiple volumes across MORE than 1 network very easily.Linking titles to an EXCEL spreadsheet or a ACCESS DB is probably better -- but I've toomuch music for that type of solution.Cheers-K Edited October 6, 2008 by 1kyle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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