tiffa 169 Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 MANY of us have large audio collections. Mine is up to 50 gb (but some of this includes HD videos). My collection, however, is a BIG mess. I am attempting to organize it. I will allow about an hour a day to do this, because otherwise it's tedious work. I wanted suggestions because I know people organize their collections different. I'm a FOLDER person. My whole collection is full of folders. Some people like to keep it simple with less folders. I have a LOSSLESS folder, and in that folder are folders. FOLDERS: The Fame The Fame Monster [explicit] (this also included the censored ones) Born This Way Special Edition The Remixes (album) Eh, Eh Single Remixes Beautiful, Dirty Rich Remixes Love Game Remixes Poker Face Remixes Bad Romance Remixes Telephone Remixes The Collection ^^ Anybody want to give me a zip of ALL the official remixes from start to finish? I will just remove that collection after comparing & start over. NOT LOSSLESS (anybody have these in lossless?) Red & Blue EP Christmas EP (These are official remixes only. May or May not have them, and I also don't have the NEWER Remixes to our BTW.) In these are SEVERAL versions of songs, over and over... rather it be remixes, extended songs, uncensored, censored, etc. I have them in their respectable folders. I was trying to decide if I wanted them in all these folders or if I wanted to put each song as a folder and when I click on it I will get every single version of said song I ever wanted (rather it be live, a TV performance, a remix, etc). I'm not sure. ^^ That's my question, really. Then I have MORE folders. TV/Live Performances (2008-present, not finished) In here is a folder for every performance (even if it's just one song behind it) interviews (2008-present, not finished) In here is another folder for every interview, even if it's just one file. Acapellas/Stems/Instrumentals Folder for each song, even if it's just one song Interludes (/Official/Live/Edited) Folder for each "show (ie: Mb 1.0, MB 2.0, The Fame Ball) Unreleased/Unreleased Live - No folder, just songs Snippets (2008-present) - No folder, just songs Music Video Versions - No folder, just songs Live Studio Versions MB 1.0, MB 2.0, The Fame Ball in folders Gaga Lullabies - No folders Various (IE: Google chrome commercial, VMA's commercial) - no folders TV Specials (ie Gaultier full, A Very Gaga Thanksgiving (song), etc) - Folders for each event Gaga Speeches (ie: DADT, NYC Pride) - No folders I just personally think this is a mess. None of the folders even have a "cover". Any suggestions? :dies: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
8847759385 160 Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 Ew I'm doing the same thing right now. #Stress Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean 2 Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 This is why I don't have a massive collection. It's hard work. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiffa 169 Posted December 20, 2011 Author Share Posted December 20, 2011 Ew I'm doing the same thing right now. #Stress :sad: Right? I'm not even sure where to begin. STRESS STRESS STRESS. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalameet 4 Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 You think THAT is a mess? you should see my iTunes. I just drag every audio file to the icon and screw the rest. Try to just put everything in a folder on your desktop, then create all the necessary folders in the appropriate place, and drag n drop the files. When I (rarely) organize ****, that's how I do it probably not a big help. More or less like this: Albums folder - TF - TF Remixes - TF Demos - TFM - TFM Remixes - TFM demos and so on. - Then unreleased stuff. - Then live stuff. :sweat: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiffa 169 Posted December 20, 2011 Author Share Posted December 20, 2011 You think THAT is a mess? you should see my iTunes. I just drag every audio file to the icon and screw the rest. Try to just put everything in a folder on your desktop, then create all the necessary folders in the appropriate place, and drag n drop the files. When I (rarely) organize ****, that's how I do it probably not a big help. More or less like this: Albums folder - TF - TF Remixes - TF Demos - TFM - TFM Remixes - TFM demos and so on. - Then unreleased stuff. - Then live stuff. I just have a 'demos' folder where I drag **** in it, no organization, no folders for each song or album. It's just there. My Unreleased stuff is just in a folder too, no organization. Do you at least edit ALL of your songs to read album "TFM" or album "unreleased" and tag Gaga as the artist? If not, then your organization is REALLY all over the place. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicole 1,809 Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 I need to reorganize as well :( But I had moving everything especially my music because then on Itunes the little exclamation mark comes up and won't play the song because it's lost it's "location" then I forget where I put it and it's just so frustrating :angry: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiffa 169 Posted December 20, 2011 Author Share Posted December 20, 2011 You know what I find frustrating?? When you go into iTunes or just properties for each song, and it does't let you change the Album/Song/Artist title. Some of my music is like permanently stuck with someone else's tagged information. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalameet 4 Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 I just have a 'demos' folder where I drag **** in it, no organization, no folders for each song or album. It's just there. My Unreleased stuff is just in a folder too, no organization. Do you at least edit ALL of your songs to read album "TFM" or album "unreleased" and tag Gaga as the artist? If not, then your organization is REALLY all over the place. Well I do tag GaGa as the artist, at least, in most cases. The Scheiße instrumental, for example, is still called "634737" by Unknown artist And Blueberry Kisses was in an album called "Reloaded", and I'm pretty sure I got it from this site already tagged like this Okay maybe it's time to organize **** :lol: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen 30,295 Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 You know what I find frustrating?? When you go into iTunes or just properties for each song, and it does't let you change the Album/Song/Artist title. Some of my music is like permanently stuck with someone else's tagged information. That's either because: 1) The file is open in another program 2) The file is WAV or some other format that isn't iTunes friendly. Try converting it to MP3 or M4A ;) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeHakan 13 Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 That's either because: 1) The file is open in another program 2) The file is WAV or some other format that isn't iTunes friendly. Try converting it to MP3 or M4A ;) Or the file properties might be set as read only Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr 42 Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 I would say I am really organized because I am a freak. So here is about how mine goes. I have a Lady Gaga folder which then goes into an Audio, Video, and a Photo folder. My videos are a mess because I don't really collect videos. Audio Folder: So I have 12 folders. They are... A FanMade Section - This is where I keep all edits and remixes, etc. This folder then leads into more folders that are then now: FanMade Albums, FanMade Edits, FanMade Filters, FanMade Remixes, and FanMade songs. Instrumentals, Acapellas, & Track Stems - This folder leads to three more folders that are now FanMade, Official, and Others. Clicking official leads to three more folders that says Acapellas, Instrumentals, and Track Stems. Each of those folders lead to three more folders (each) that have all three album names and that is where I have the files. I like folders. Live Performances, Concerts, & Others - This is where I have all of her performances, etc. I have each all the years, 2010, 2011 folders, and I have a folder for each song if she performed it. Like for example, if she sang Marry The Night, I would add the files to the Marry The Night folder. And if she did a concert, like the iHeart Festival, I would just drag it into 2011. Music Video Audios - I just drag and put the Music Video audios in here... that are different versions of the song of course. Official Remixes - This folder contains all the remixes available of all songs. Official ones. This includes all Remix CDs and other remixes. Each song that are remixed are put in a separate folder. For example, The Edge Of Glory would have it's own folder and I would put the remixes in it. If a song only has one remix, I would put it in an "Others" folder. Officially Released Albums - This is where I put like Born This Way, The Fame Monster, The Fame and stuff like that. I just make a folder for each of the albums and drag it in the folder. Radio Edits, Premieres, & Others - I have a folder for each section (3). Then I just drag the appropriate files to the folder it needs to go in. Song Covers - This is where I put all of the songs Lady Gaga has sung that was made by another artist. For example, she sang Imagine... so I would drag it to that folder just like that. Stefani Germanotta Folder - This is where I put her EP, her live recordings and stuff like that. Of course each thing, like Lives, Red & Blue, then have another separate folder. Tours - This is divided into her tours (The Fame Ball, The Monster Ball). Each folder then has recording of each tour. I put where she performance, for example she sang at Madison Square Garden, I then make a folder and put the whole tour performance in that folder. This is also where I put the Interludes. I have interludes separated into different folders. This has the original songs she used for the interlude, lives, and studios of each interlude. Unreleased Songs, Demos, & Snippets - Then I have this. Each section (3) is separated into each folder. Unreleased songs are divided into Team Love Child, and Other Producers. Then Demos is separated into four folders that are The Fame, The Fame Monster, Born This Way, and Others. Snippets, I just drag the snippets on the folder. And there is my collection and how I organize it. Call me an organized freak, but I like it like this. Really clean and organized... in my opinion. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen 30,295 Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 Or the file properties might be set as read only and that :flop: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Goulding 8 Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 I did this yesterday for my entire computer and spent around 6 hours after I replaced all the files in Itunes and such. Taking a screenie of mine hold onzz Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
niicoland 0 Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Hi you can use DBpoweramp for editing Tags, you can do everything in that ****, even more than in Itunes, oh and this is a site that i found starting my collection: http://www.hoodoola....ideos_8237.html It has like everything released on itunes(Its outdated but you can search on the website to find the more recent), and.. yeah I'm going to erase everything on my computer and do it al over again, my computer is a mess, I'll just save larger files PD: Thank you LGVHD u help me a lot. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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