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How do you organise your music on your device?

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rsarno

Thank Me, Im Irish!
I only have about 2,000 songs, but I have them in folders on my PC/SDCard essentially creating my own playlists. So I have the following folders:
GymMix (songs i like when im at the gym)
BikeMix (songs i like when riding my harley)
70s-80s (mixed songs)
etc etc

The problem is i put these same folders on my SDCard and then open my music player, it doesnt see the folders as being a playlist or anything.

So it dumps all of my 2000 songs into the "library" and I have to make my own playlists within the app ... which takes a long time, and then gets erased when i change to a new ROM or something

Anyhow, I just need to know my options. Thanks all
 
why not use Google Music or whatever the hell its called now. You can create your own playlists and stream the music. Unless you want your music locally
 
nyydynasty said:
why not use Google Music or whatever the hell its called now. You can create your own playlists and stream the music. Unless you want your music locally
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yes i need it local for when im underground on the subway, or in my gym where there is no service.

but thank you

i know some people have crazy amounts of music, so there must be a way to keep it organized. No way in hell people have 70,000 songs sitting in a library without any structure hehe
 
I guess what im asking is how to preserve the folders i have already spent time putting together.

The only reason why im asking is because on my blackberry i was able to drag all folders onto the device, it would see each folder as a playlist of sorts

that was perfect. I just wanted to know what is everyone doing on Android?
 
I have my tunes organized by creating a sub folder under the music folder for each artist and sub folders under that artist for each album. (Music\Beatles\White Album\*.mp3) Winamp seems to see them without creating any play list. If I'm in the mood to listen to the Beatles White album I hit artist>Beatles>white album. Same if I'm in the mood for some classical. I hit genres classical. If you take good care to have accurate meta tags Winamp will play an album as if it were a cd... sort for genres... list all albums in alpha... list all tunes in alpha... does a fair job of random play and .. if all else fails, allows for creating or importing play lists.

I keep the exact library structure on my pc for quick reloading.. the play lists are preserved and are imported as well.
 
olbriar said:
If you take good care to have accurate meta tags Winamp will play an album as if it were a cd
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Thats right but my meta tags are crap. I cant find a music app to treat my folders as playlists, so it appears i may have to look into how to mass-edit my tags

any suggestions?
 
I have over a 100 playlist and another 40 "smart playlist" from itunes.
I use itunes to manage my tracks of over 40,000 songs
and double twist to synch which playlists I want.

Smart playlist is the greatest thing ever: " Choose all songs I haven't listen to, or only listen to 1 or 2 twice in the past 2 months that falls under classical genre that has been publish or released in the past 2 years"

or "Select all tracks from composer Smith from 1985 to 1991 that I have played the most"

I can't ever see Google Music being able to do that. I uploaded 2,5000 songs to Google Music and quit after it was messing up album art and stuff. Managing playlist in a browser was also tedious. Itune can import .m3u playlists from winAmp.
 
I use poweramp as a music player which has the option to use folders instead. Given that its also the loudest and best audio quality of the android players, definitely worth the small charge
 
rsarno said:
Thats right but my meta tags are crap. I cant find a music app to treat my folders as playlists, so it appears i may have to look into how to mass-edit my tags

any suggestions?
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I found some pretty decent free software out there to clean up almost 700 gigs of tunes. It was still a chore but well worth the effort. I had no idea how important the tags were when I first started collecting tunes. I never bothered with the tags for early readers/players used file names.
All of my files were named in the same sort of scheme but that mattered little when they actually came out with mp3 players. If you are interested, I can turn you on to some free software to gather tags from file names of use the net to find them.
 
I store all of my music in "my music" with subdirectories of the artists name. I tag each song with the album name the same as the artists name so the music players will keep the songs in my order.
I create playlists on my PC in media player then put the file on my phone.
Once the playlist is on my phone I can edit it any time.
 
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