iTunes Library Perfection

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Leader: berniePach
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Created on: 2 Dec 2008
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For people looking for iTunes library bliss.

For people obsessed with how their iTunes library looks. Need to have cover art for every single song? Titles should be capitalized a certain way? Freak out when you can't decide if a song that is both part of an album and a compilation should have one or the other cover art and you just end up having the song twice? Ok, I might be alone on that last one, but whatever your little iTunes-Library-OCD tendencies you can discuss them here.

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2	Michael Jackson	4
3	The Offspring	4
4	Katatonia	3
5	Katy Perry	3
6	Foster the People	3
7	Nirvana	3
8	The Black Keys	3
9	Gorillaz	3
10	Avril Lavigne	3

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homework

I don't know how anal you all are, but I have to have FLAC files of everything in my library. If FLAC is not available, I will get the highest bit-rate possible. 99% is FLAC, with a few 320s, and 256s. The FLACs are saved on my external hard drive in a catalogue. The format is: Archive > Music > #-Z *I have 27 folders for every letter and for #* > Aesop Rock > Albums *Either albums, eps, live albums, singles, etc* > Labor Days > *FILES ARE IN THIS FOLDER*. Every folder has high resolution artwork, and it's named as "Cover". Everything in my iTunes library is v0 bit-rate, converted by me from my lossless FLAC and embedded is 500 x 500 artwork from the high resolution images I have gathered. Everything is properly tag, genre wise, *according to me*, titles, and the year of the album. I don't mess with lyrics, as most lyrics are incorrect on the web, and it would take years to manually input the lyrics I have for my library.

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homework

Not a feature I use anyway. Currently in iTunes, I have 5,602 songs (508 albums), consisting of 45.89 GB. I must have complete albums. If I like a song, I generally like the album, or learn to like it eventually. My FLAC collection consists of 158.37 GB. I am anal, but not that anal, right? No, that's not what she said.

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frankputtemans

13577 songs, 39.8 days, 101.48 GB of music 100% proper tagged and album art added... When my iTunes library dies, I die!

February 2012
yarav

i'm totally obsessed with my library, is HAS to be perfectly organized or i'll die in terror. and the worst thing? not having an ipod, so no matter how freakin organized my itunes library is, on my mp3 device it will show things like "unknown artist" like wtf??

December 2010
nutelina

OCD haha count me in, doesn't Steve Jobs have OCD? Checkout hypercritical on Arstechnica ha so much me

January 2010
charlfourieZA

Greetings my fellow OCD mates. :D Great to find my kin. hehe

January 2010
fruityth1ng

Ah! Glad to have found you, my fellow itunes-bonsai-library-OCD sufferers. I warmly bask in your fellow obsessedness :P - being on a mac, this thread looks very useful :) http://cn.last.fm/group/Last.fm+Web+Services/forum/21604/_/285676/3 - I'll report back on how it went ;)

January 2010
Hazzle92

I majorly obsess my iTunes, in fact I've just been changing a few things just now when it occured to me that I should join a gorup like this :\

December 2009
WickedRaz

Here's a nice iTunes controller (yes, another but this is good I swear!) with plenty of nice skins. Bowtie ( http://bowtieapp.com/ ) Also has last.fm scrobbling.

May 2009
WickedRaz

Oh yeah!, Dougscripts is really useful... recently found something to join already imported tracks that helped me with my audiobooks... so little activity lately, hopefully that can change; there are many things yet to be discussed

May 2009
berniePach

I don't think the Genius feature will ever replace a hand-picked playlist, however I do think it is very useful for throwing together a quick playlist for a road trip or something. The way i use it is, I usually like to go to bed with music on, so i just choose a song, let the "genius" do its thing and i have a fairly good playlist to sleep to.

February 2009
WickedRaz

Greetings fellow iTunes freaks.... I just want to know your opinion about the recently added "Genius" feature; what do you think about it? Have you gotten good results with it? or you think there's nothing like the good old fashioned handpicked playlist ?

January 2009
katupandu

yea, exactly my syndrome. every artists name has to be correct, the songs must be titled correctly and i often think hours about what the perfect description of the music style could be.

January 2009
WickedRaz

I also do everything manually most of the time... keeps it under control. About the cover art, I also use google but lately iTunes has been effective about that. One application for Mac/Win that you may find useful to tag songs according to mood is Moody ( http://www.crayonroom.com/moody.php ), check it out....takes a lot of time to have everything neat but it's nice for better playlists.

January 2009
berniePach

i usually use google images and sometimes i get images with a small gap of white in one of the edges and i go nuts! i have to go and modify the image to get rid of it hehe

January 2009
berniePach

Turns out TuneUp is still a little buggy for the mac so i decided not to use it for now, i'll keep obsessing manually. Where do you guys get your cover art?

January 2009
WickedRaz

Sounds good! I'm pretty excite about the future discussions here! Many things to talk about... maybe we should suggest a few ideas to start discussions or articles.... Have a good one!

December 2008
berniePach

Yeah same here, if its a concert i'll try to find a poster (rarely find it but still look haha), or a picture I took if it happens that i went to that concert. Also I found an interesting piece of software that fixes itunes libraries, adds all meta data using gracenote, gets artwork, etc, i'm gonna have to check it out, it is called TuneUp and there's been a windows version for a while but they just came out with a Mac version and i'm pretty excited, i'll let you guys know how it turns out.

December 2008
WickedRaz

Yep, that's pretty much the way I have my genres too... kinda subcategories. About the covers, when there's no artwork I usually make one that suits the band using Photoshop.... it's better than nothing :(

December 2008
carl_gc

so far ive used... indie indie alt rock indie electronic indie rock indie rock/electronic indie pop indie experimental and what do you do for those songs without artwork? (live recordings, rare songs, acoustic sets, radio broadcast, etc)

December 2008