Organizing Your Digital Music Collection

Doog_de_Jour

Hey audiophiles!

I have a bunch of digital music I’ve collected via YouTube, and I’m trying to figure out the best way to organize it. Ideally I’d like to catalog it so I can easily pull tracks by artist, etc.

Thoughts?

Doog_de_Jour

Oh, and I already looked into this:

Doog_de_Jour

And this:

Doog_de_Jour

And this:

Doog_de_Jour

ANSWER THE QUESTION @GrundleStiltzkin!

RaceBannon

I use Amazon because I have it on multiple devices and with bluetooth I can play in the car or through speakers. I'm pretty Amazon isn't cool but it's where my songs are

GrundleStiltzkin

Doog_de_Jour said:

ANSWER THE QUESTION @GrundleStiltzkin!

iTunes organizes as well as anything I’ve run across. I’ve got like 16 years into that system so I might not be objective. What are you looking for as end result?

Doog_de_Jour

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Doog_de_Jour said:

ANSWER THE QUESTION @GrundleStiltzkin!

iTunes organizes as well as anything I’ve run across. I’ve got like 16 years into that system so I might not be objective. What are you looking for as end result?

I have a bunch of links of various music videos from YouTube. It would be nice to 1) export them 2) get the ID3 metadata (lulz, hey @Pitchfork51) so I don’t have to manually enter in information. Maybe then generate a list of my library.

I used to love iTunes, but haven’t used it in years.

Doog_de_Jour

RaceBannon said:

I use Amazon because I have it on multiple devices and with bluetooth I can play in the car or through speakers. I'm pretty Amazon isn't cool but it's where my songs are

@RaceBannon, I actually really like Amazon Prime’s music streaming service. I never thought of using it for offline stuff.

YellowSnow

I don’t understand what is happening.

Doog_de_Jour

YellowSnow said:

I don’t understand what is happening.

It’s like vinyl records, with little movies...on the internet.

PurpleBaze

Doog_de_Jour said:

YellowSnow said:

I don’t understand what is happening.

It’s like vinyl records, with little movies...on the internet.

lulz

GrundleStiltzkin

Doog_de_Jour said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Doog_de_Jour said:

ANSWER THE QUESTION @GrundleStiltzkin!

iTunes organizes as well as anything I’ve run across. I’ve got like 16 years into that system so I might not be objective. What are you looking for as end result?

I have a bunch of links of various music videos from YouTube. It would be nice to 1) export them 2) get the ID3 metadata (lulz, hey @Pitchfork51) so I don’t have to manually enter in information. Maybe then generate a list of my library.

I used to love iTunes, but haven’t used it in years.

Ok, you don’t have the YouTube’s converted to mp3 yet.

There’s probably some hacker shit python scripts that could do the YouTube rip thing in one batch operation. One at a tim manual stylee, try https://ytmp3.cc/

DerekJohnson

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Doog_de_Jour said:

ANSWER THE QUESTION @GrundleStiltzkin!

iTunes organizes as well as anything I’ve run across. I’ve got like 16 years into that system so I might not be objective. What are you looking for as end result?

My one issue with iTunes is that songs that I bought from Amazon keep disappearing from my iTunes library.

PurpleThrobber

Doogles

Hey Grundlegifskinz my GF might leave me and I'm thinking about making a baby don't go mix. Can you help me burn a CD?! Take the answer off the air, thanks!

GrundleStiltzkin

Doogles said:

Hey Grundlegifskinz my GF might leave me and I'm thinking about making a baby don't go mix. Can you help me burn a CD?! Take the answer off the air, thanks!

#NekoForAllOccassions
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YellowSnow

RaceBannon said:

I use Amazon because I have it on multiple devices and with bluetooth I can play in the car or through speakers. I'm pretty Amazon isn't cool but it's where my songs are

I'll bet Rod Stewart is a huge Amazon streaming guy @RaceBannon . Neil Young is very much in Camp Yella- i.e., vinyl and if your going digital it needs to be hi-res. His Pono thing sure was a big flop.

Shout out to @Pitchfork51 for having a publication.

https://pitchfork.com/news/neil-young-the-record-labels-killed-pono/

YellowSnow

Doog_de_Jour said:

YellowSnow said:

I don’t understand what is happening.

It’s like vinyl records, with little movies...on the internet.

I love watching live performances on Youtube.com ! The sheer volume of great and rare footage there is amazing.

Alas, I'm a Spotify junkie theses days. The cost is for premium is minimal and the enjoyment factor is extraordinary. I helped DDY make the Rose Bowl play list even though no one could hear it worth a shit on the shitty blue tooth set up.

I can remember around 2007 ripping like 600 cds into my iTunes account. Fuck that. What a pain in the ass.

RaceBannon

How does that turntable work in your car?

I have a 300 plus collection of the greatest hits of the last 50 years that I'm not sick of hearing. I uploaded some from CDs and bought the rest. Sounds quality isn't a big issue to me anymore. Convenience is. A bottle of win and a fresh bowl and bluetooth sounds like being at the Seattle Coliseum

And when I have to travel around the Southland (ILTCIT) and the good sports radio shows go off the air my library rides with me on my phone

YellowSnow

RaceBannon said:

How does that turntable work in your car?

I have a 300 plus collection of the greatest hits of the last 50 years that I'm not sick of hearing. I uploaded some from CDs and bought the rest. Sounds quality isn't a big issue to me anymore. Convenience is. A bottle of win and a fresh bowl and bluetooth sounds like being at the Seattle Coliseum

And when I have to travel around the Southland (ILTCIT) and the good sports radio shows go off the air my library rides with me on my phone

It's the Greatest!!

All kidding aside, I'm very much a Why Not Both.Gif guy when it comes to tunes. I obsess over making play lists for the car and love the miracle of streaming.

But my loser basement set up does sound pretty fantastic with a cold beer. Ask @89ute