[MATTtheSEAHAWK]

modi123_1, on 17 November 2011 - 03:22 PM, said:

How big is your device? I have a pretty decent system of folders setup with my 30gb zune.

zune? hipster.

[modi123_1]

Yes.. Zunes are such hipster players.

[Atli]

Small playlists set up in Winamp on my laptop, auto sync'd to my Android phone. Only songs I'm going to want to listen to.


WTF do you do with 30 - 80 gigs of music on your mobile device?! Pile a bunch of random crap onto it (to justify having actually bought the thing) and suffer through boring shuffle selections, or drive yourself insane plowing through it all on that tiny screen to find something worth listening to?

Well I for one would be lucky to find a whole CD's worth of songs I'd be willing to listen to on shuffle on any given day, let alone an entire month's worth of it.


And there has only ever been one disk I could listen to in it's entirety: Metallica's S&M concert. Everything other disk is just a song or two worth listening to, and the rest padding to justify charging for an entire CD.

[Nykc]

You would be surprised how quickly those devices fill up when you have a good diversity of Genres you like to listen to regardless of having entire albums or not.

[supersloth]

on my computer it's all located on e:\music\[Artist Name]\[Album Year] - [Album Title]\[Track Number] - [Track Name]


when i load it on the ipod i just kinda hope for the best.

i never really did playlists until recently, and that's just because of spotify.

[fromTheSprawl]

I have a 4GB IPod Nano 1st gen and it has a problem. Too bad Apple won't replace it since my country isn't listed on their site.
Moving on, the problem is the battery icon is always just a red line, regardless if I charge whole night or not. This would be okay if it was just a graphical glitch, but...
After a full charge, if I keep pressing next, after 3 presses the IPod will shutdown. It's now low on battery. What the fudge.
So what I do is after I charge, I just press shuffle, then let IPod do its thing, until it runs out of battery. That would be after 1 hour of music.

Now, on the subject of organization:
I usually listen to albums, because some of the best songs are buried in the albums. Other songs you would also not like, unless you listen to some songs of the album, and it complements it in a way that it would sound good to you. Kind of like reading something you're not familiar with, but if you're given some information that explains something about that, then you'll get it.

After I listen to an album, I deliberate on what songs I want to keep on my player. This usually involves lots of time thinking on what should I delete, since I have 2 gb worth of music I consider mainstays on my player. The other 2gb is for new music.

Right now I have the whole Pavement discography on my IPod. I usually change my new music part of the player after a week, but for 2 weeks now I've never edited out my IPod, so that tells you how much I like Pavement.

[peace_fixation]

lordofduct, on 17 November 2011 - 01:53 PM, said:

Entire collections.

I only listen to albums, not tracks. If the album the song is from is not itself a well formed collection of tracks I enjoy, I won't listen to the song. 3 minutes of audio sucks, and jumping between different 'stories' drives me mad.

Yes I consider each song a story in an over arcing epic which is the album.

Me too. I mean I listen to, and mix, a lot techno (on vinyl mostly) and I don't mind to put a good tune on and enjoy it, but I tend to listen to full albums, full mixes, live sets etc. I like to hear the whole story.

[Skaggles]

I don't have a collection of music on my computer. I stream all my music through rdio.com, where I have a large collection of 4000+ songs that I can sort however I want.
My Collection

[Nykc]

@Skaggles - at work I tend to stream my music, but in my car or out and about I am rocking the MP3 player.

[Craig328]

I have a small mp3 player (Creative Zen) that I use in conjunction with a short range FM transmitter so I can play my tunes in my Jeep. Got like 4-5 playlists of different music genres. I add songs I run across that I like to the appropriate playlist from time to time. Nothing too complicated.

[nathanpc]

I download entire albums, just like if I bought them in the store, and organized them inserting the cover, author, music numbers, year... iTunes does the rest

[GWatt]

Ideally I would organize my music's directory structure like so:
[Album Artist]/[Album]/[Track no]_[Title]
In practice I just have a collection of music and the player handles the organization.

[jjsaw5]

This is one of those things that has been on my to do list for a long time...I have a ton of music that is not orgranized in any way shape or form. Probably won't get to it anytime soon either....

[bflosabre91]

I download entire albums using the Zune pass. Then i just rotate full albums off and on my 30GB Zune when I get something new and replace something I haven't listened to in a while. I'm also waiting for my zune to break to upgrade to a 64gb Zune HD but still don't have enough reason to. I know the Zune is dead but i still love mine. I bought mine the day it came out in 2006 and listen to it for 5-7 hours every weekday on average and it's still alive and wonderful. How many ipods have lasted that long with that much use?

This post has been edited by bflosabre91: 30 November 2011 - 02:18 PM

[sykoticm]

I use several directories for each artist and album. I have lets say some Iron Maiden, I make a new folder for the band name and for every album I have of them I make a new folders in the Iron Maiden folder. Look something like: MP3_PLAYER > Music > Iron Maiden > (Albums) > (Songs in that Album)