On Vacation…
Digital Music Frontier is currently on hiatus. I hope to be back soon. Thanks for stopping by.
Also, you may want to check out my new site iTunes Smart Playlists where I will be writing about some of the same stuff I once wrote about here.
EMI Catalog is Now DRM-Free on iTunes
Before I finally finish my “Organize Your Music” series, which I swear I’m working on, I’d like to just point out that there was some not-so-new news today.
Yeah, Apple finally got around to making the new DRM-free EMI catalog available. I think it is clear to most people by now that this is only […]
Music Discovery Review: Critical Metrics
This is going to be the easiest post I will ever write… Three words… Critical Metrics. Go.
Published by neal on May 25th, 2007 | Filed under Music Discovery, Tips & Tricks | Comment now »Organize Your Music Files: Part I
So now that you have found some new music and amassed a terribly large collection of Mp3’s (in my case, 80 GB’s worth), the question becomes, how do you organize and listen to all those songs?
I have a few suggestions to help you organize all that data into something listenable.
Note: The first-first step when doing anything with your Mp3’s, should be to back them up. External hard drives are cheap and easy to use. Don’t be scared. Go get one and hook it up, before doing anything else. Also, I use iTunes, so many of my suggestions are iTunes-centric, and may or may not work with some other player/libraries.
Part I: Fix the tags - In most cases, you’re probably going to have some tag issues. You don’t have all the album artwork, your songs have incorrect track names, etc. This is probably the hardest part of organizing your collection. There really isn’t an easy fix to this problem. You will, at some point, have to go in there and make some changes. (Arrrgggghh!!!) There are, however, some ways to make this process a little less time consuming and frustrating.
Published by neal on May 15th, 2007 | Filed under Apple, iTunes, Music Library Tips, Tips & Tricks | Comment now »(Re)Fill Your iPod: Top 5 Ways To Find New Music
In today’s world, there are absolutely no excuses for having the same mediocre songs start playing on your iPod only to be skipped and skipped again. There are plenty of places to find, listen to, and buy new music.
So why not take all that Jackson Browne that you ripped from your parents CD collection […]
