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Managing a Huge Music Collection?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tracking-your-tunes dept.

subkid asks: "I've tried several different solutions to manage my music collection; iTunes, WinAmp playlists, visual MP3, and so forth. but none satisfy my idea of what I want. I have many thousand files and things are getting a bit out of hand. I like the functionality of iTunes but not the memory it uses. WinAmp uses less but makes finding the song I want is even harder. Things like musicbrainz.org help for making sure the songs are tagged properly but is there an all-in-one solution? How do you manage your large collection?"

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  1. Great... by aywwts4 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now we can be treated to a few hundred geeks arguing over who's music collectionis bigger.

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  2. The dinosaur consensus by unitron · · Score: 4, Funny
    "How do you manage your large collection?"

    You know those plastic crates the dairy industry uses? There's a reason God saw to it that they're just the right size for phonograph albums.

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  3. There is only one way by lelitsch · · Score: 2, Funny

    dick: "i guess it looks as if you're reorganizing your records .. um .. what's this? chronological?"

    rob: "no."

    dick: "not alphabetical."

    rob: "nope."

    dick: "what?"

    rob: "autobiographical."

    dick: "no fucking way!"

    rob: "yep! i can tell you how i got from deep purple to howling wolf in just 25 moves."

    dick: "oh my god!"

    rob: "and, if i wanted to find the song "landslide" by fleetwood mac i have to remember that i bought it for someone in the fall of 1983 pile but i didn't give it to them for personal reasons."

    dick: "that sounds .."

    rob: "comforting."

    dick: "yes."

    rob: "it is."