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On September 17 2009 16:56 intruding wrote:
I can't think of 1 thing that Winamp does better than Foobar. Foobar does everything that Winamp does, but better. and Foobar does a million thing that Winamp can't do.
+ Winamp is atrocious when dealing with reasonably large databases.
Mediamonkey; it's pretty good.. but it deals with video, audio, pictures etc..
whereas Foobar is strictly audio. Mediamonkey is lightyears away from Foobar in the audio department though.
Foobar's interface is 100x harder and less intuive than winamps in customising. It's just so much easier, I mean if you look at comparisons you'll read the same. I think foobar's better if you actually spend the time to learn how to customise it, but that's quite a bit of time. Winamp's easier :D
On September 17 2009 16:53 Thesecretaznman wrote:Show nested quote +On September 17 2009 16:30 Espers wrote:
@intruding
Winamp can do pretty much every point you've mentioned, why are you so attached to foobar? :o
I really love the smart view of Winamp too, not many people use it because it requires some fornula learning, but I can have a whole different section for compilations, so my normal section (or view) isn't cluttered with 1 song artists. Good cause I have a lot of compilation albums :p Waaaiiit... so that "compilation" view only shows compilations? o_o
Yes?
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Maps sorted on genre
234 GB music
Hardstyle - 166 gb
Sorted by these maps
Vinyl - 41gb
Album - 64 gb
Single tracks - 4 gb
Livesets - 40 gb
Vinyl and livesets is sorted on year in maps
Jump - 10 gb (like hardstyle)
Hardcore - 20 gb (like hardstyle)
All other stuff Pop/house/collections - 40 gb
- Queen collection
- Top 2000 (best songs all time)
- Top 500 by ID-T (Dance mostly)
- Collection of Dutch artist
- Party music (crazy music which is perfect when your drunk ^^)
And thats a collection i started like 5 years ago. And I my playlist atm (with ALL tracks)
is 21000+ tracks
Allot dupes, but i don't care ^^
oh and i use winamp only (search function is perfect for such huge tracklists)
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Alphabetically by artist. I think it's pretty standard.
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On September 17 2009 23:59 Espers wrote:Show nested quote +On September 17 2009 16:56 intruding wrote:
I can't think of 1 thing that Winamp does better than Foobar. Foobar does everything that Winamp does, but better. and Foobar does a million thing that Winamp can't do.
+ Winamp is atrocious when dealing with reasonably large databases.
Mediamonkey; it's pretty good.. but it deals with video, audio, pictures etc..
whereas Foobar is strictly audio. Mediamonkey is lightyears away from Foobar in the audio department though. Foobar's interface is 100x harder and less intuive than winamps in customising. It's just so much easier, I mean if you look at comparisons you'll read the same. I think foobar's better if you actually spend the time to learn how to customise it, but that's quite a bit of time. Winamp's easier :D Show nested quote +On September 17 2009 16:53 Thesecretaznman wrote:On September 17 2009 16:30 Espers wrote:
@intruding
Winamp can do pretty much every point you've mentioned, why are you so attached to foobar? :o
I really love the smart view of Winamp too, not many people use it because it requires some fornula learning, but I can have a whole different section for compilations, so my normal section (or view) isn't cluttered with 1 song artists. Good cause I have a lot of compilation albums :p Waaaiiit... so that "compilation" view only shows compilations? o_o Yes?
I think i was referring to multi-artist compilations (is that what a compilation usually is?) I didn't know there was a way to get winamp to show only albums with a single artist or only albums with multiple artists.
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Mine's quite disorganised actually. I have a big folder called MUSIC and it's filled with stuff. Sometimes songs from a certain artist/band have a folder with their name, sometimes they don't. I usually use Winamp Media Library to listen to whatever I want to. I never know where to look for a certain song, I usually just click Alt+3 in Winamp.
I like to believe in the principe that order is for idiots and only geniuses can handle chaos.
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Germany / USA16648 Posts
I have one HDD just for music. Every artist gets one folder with each album being a subfolder (and I add the year). Then I have one big folder called unsorted in which I put single songs when I don't have anything else from that particular Artist etc
At least that's how everything should be and much of it is, but I'm too lazy to go through it again.
I also have another huge folder, which is basically a copy of my friend's music collection, I never get around to sorting it properly into my own collection (so there's quite a lot of stuff I have twice t_t).
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whats with the guy dissing winamp?
i tried foobar2000 and found it ugly and slow , winamp for me.the pitch plugin is a lifesaver as well for my electronica collection.
i organize by genre , i have around 20 gig of stuff.
can anyone recommend me some harder acid stuff? 165+ bpm
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Root: Music
I
I-> metal
I
I->others
Metal:
I
I-> Avantasia
I
I-> CD1
I-> CD2
I-> The Scarecrow
etc
Metal folder is sorted in alphabetical order by artist name. There are some songs out of folders because they are only one song per artist and I don't want to make 50 or so more folders just to put one song in them.
In the artist folder albums are sorted by the year of their release.
I also sort by a root band. Like in my Deep Purple folder there are songs and albums of Deep Purple, the members' albums, Rainbow, Whitesnake and Ronnie James Dio.
Deep Purple
I
I-> DP
I-> Rainbow
I-> Blackmore's night
I-> Whitesnake
I-> solo albums
I-> Jon Lord
I-> Roger Glover
I-> Jan Gillan
etc
All my music is about 30 GB in total.
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I use Spotify 
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My music is organized by type (sound tracks, english, japanese, ripped from nico, doujin), and then further organized by artist name (in the case of multiple I just dump them into a vocal collection folder). Then I just pick out random albums on foobar (which I did take the time to customize) and play. Constantly purge my list of music based on what I don't listen to anymore, etc.
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infinity21
Canada6683 Posts
Language + instrumental + a small bboy folder (lol)
-> album
I usually keep my music folder < 10 GB so it's ok. The rest of the music goes inside my external hd.
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I use a combination of foobar and spotify. I don't have a lot of music on my computer. Just some favorites I know I won't be able to find on spotify.
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I have about 450GB of music roughly, and I order it something like this.
Rough Genres / Language -> Artist/Album/Unsorted Tracks -> Songs
Fairly messy for the amount of music I have but I get by.
I actually was going to reorganize and retag all my music collection again whilst upgrading to FLAC simultaneously so this is thread is quite helpful to me.
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How do you guys so much music? I have a little over 20GB, and it's organized by Artist -> Album folders. I spend a lot of time organizing my library though, so all my filenames, genres, etc are all consistent. I manually download album art too.
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I use spotify too. So simple
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1584 Posts
I let all of it lay around randomly on the HDD. Most of the stuff just lays around on D:\ and some in my usenet download folder, then when it gets too messy I just make a new folder and fill it with music and random stuff again. So messy, I sometimes find awesome stuff from years back that I just forgot about.
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It's organized by genre: Rap, Metal, or Other.
From there it's by Band -> Album. A good program for making sure all of your music is tagged in the same fashion is MusicBrainz Picard.
edit: Unfortunately for compilations, the artist will be "Various", with song title including the name of the band.
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If i want to listen to an artist i go to the artist section of the library, if its just certain songs then i go into songs and select multiple ones to play in a row.
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Vatican City State491 Posts
After reading intruding's post I think I will try foolbar... especially as the NEWEST winamp never works for me with last.fm, so I have to use some ancient 2.666 version from 2003.
I just divided it into 3 folders
1) "music" - with folders for bands I really know/like/listen to + some separate 'loose tracks'
-at some point I thought it would be smart to divide the bands by genere, but I ended up not listening to them at all, if they were hidden somewhere in a "genere_x" folder
2) music2 - with music sorted by genere, or just selected tracks of some artists that I listen to very, very rarely + selection of "party music", "dancing music" etc.
Im thinking of moving most of these tracks to folder 3 though.
3) music_temp - all the things that I dont know too well.. I wonder if you really know what your music if you have more that few gb... seriously 100gb is like few months of listening...
I have one big problem though... let's say I listen to some album and like 3 out of 12 songs. Im not sure if I should delete the remaining 9 (knowing that there is little chance of me listening to them again), or just put all the albums of a band to the same folder and copy the favourite tracks to the root catalogue (with hope that "I will listen to the rest of the tracks some day").
I use last.fm so I like to have the music tagged, unfortunately I have never found any convenient mp3-tagging tools, e.g. I tried few but non of them allowed me to pick the artist name from a scroll list... I had to copy the artist name 12 times per album + the file names too... which was kinda same as editing them in winamp.
btw. I find it pretty hilarious that the term "hardcore" can be used for like 3 completely different generes of music.. I think that techno guy would be quite shocked if he'd check my old "hard-core" folder.. and it would probably the same for me if I randomly tried few "bands" from his :D
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