Managing Huge Music Collections: Overview
At the time of writing most young people I know have quite large collections of music on their computers. Whether or not these collections are well organised is unknown to me. However, looking at my own collection as it appeared just a few days ago I am lead to believe that the answer to this question is: they’re quite disorganised.
Organisation of music collections include the following:
- Naming conventions should be laid out and followed. This goes for directory structure and names of the music files
- ID3-tag information should include some basic information about the track that corresponds to the name and path of the music files
- Cover Art should be included such that the player can find it
Preferably some extra bits of goody-goody attributes also apply:
- All the files in the collection share a common format such as MP3 or FLAC
So what do I do about it?
Over the next couple of articles I am going to discuss some of the power tools that get the job of managing a huge music collection done. Furthermore I will talk about why MP3 isn’t such a bad format after all, and a little about what the different software players can do.