Jun. 19, 2009 at 8:04am with 78 notes View comments
Reblogged from nostrich
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My advice regarding library organization is always unpopular and always ignored, but hear me out here: delete most of your music. … If you’re like me, you don’t listen to most of your music very regularly. In fact, you tend to have ~5-8 albums on constant rotation, switching one in and another out every week or so. Thus, if you’re like me, you don’t need that much music in your iTunes library. Anything that isn’t a regular listen? Delete it. Don’t back it up, don’t archive it somewhere, don’t give it any funny smart playlist-referenced tags, just fucking delete it.
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Quisby, in response to cleversimon’s post. Read the whole thing. 

This may be the best way to organize my music: my listening habit is to listen to several albums/songs nonstop for a few weeks, then get tired and change the rotation, only occasionally digging through the archives for specific songs I want to hear at a particular time. (Back when I had a Windows computer, I used Foobar a lot, and just built playlists from tracks pulled out of the hard drive whenever I felt like listening to music.) And since I have all my music backed up anyway, I’m going to go ahead and delete a lot of it from my computer (and maybe my 4-year-old PowerBook will stop wheezing and throwing fits).

  1. willotoons answered: I swear this man & you were separated at birth or something. Or maybe your new alter ego is named Dick? So appropriate.
  2. hagwaar reblogged this from nostrich and added:
    old Data. Time to start over…
  3. factchecker reblogged this from nostrich
  4. osakasteve reblogged this from nostrich and added:
    Richard Dunlop-Walters
  5. kbkarma answered: My organisation method is simple. Music folder, containing folders for artists, which contain folders for albums. On an external HD.
  6. kubi reblogged this from cleversimon and added:
    do: (in response to cleversimon) 1) Genres: I only use the broadest names for my genres. Jazz, Rock, Electronic,...
  7. flemieux reblogged this from nostrich and added:
    Very interesting post
  8. qualls answered: Agreed! If your tastes are fluid, you should be constantly trying new things anyway. Save favorites, and ditch the rest.
  9. alexpornota reblogged this from nostrich and added:
    I see your point, nostrich, and I guess that’s my reasoning behind not having a hard disc iPod, but instead relying on...
  10. alancfrancis reblogged this from nostrich
  11. jeffgiddens answered: i use my ipod as the organizer. I think of itunes as the main library, and what is on my ipod as what i have “checked out”.
  12. lilzet answered: Oh, good. This is what I do. Solidarity.
  13. pootytang reblogged this from nostrich and added:
    I love it. I would never delete anything (I’m a horder, I’ll admit) but removing it from itunes sounds like a great...
  14. eush reblogged this from nostrich and added:
    cleversimon’s post. Read...whole thing. This may...several...
  15. respondr reblogged this from jhnbrssndn and added:
    going from 200+GB down...20GB. A 20GB library...essentially...
  16. cheerschopper reblogged this from nostrich and added:
    agree with “just fucking...certain extent. And, actually,iTunes can be very helpful with...
  17. teejayhanton answered: I need to delete some, but really enjoy hitting “shuffle” and just listening. I keep a couple “fave” playlists, but am otherwise unorganized.
  18. praavda answered: too much text, nostrich
  19. jhnbrssndn reblogged this from nostrich and added:
    Although RDW merely hints at the autism which is hard-wired into the male brain, and hence explains why a lot of men...
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