Archive for the 'Digital Library Management' Category
Sunday, June 1, 2008
With more than 16,000 songs to manage, there is no more essential a tool in my library than iTunes' Smart Playlists. From building simple playlists for listening to creating complex queries for examination, Smart Playlists turn what would be a tedious burden into a trivial task. At the moment, I have more than 50 of them slicing, organizing and corralling my expansive collection of tunes into ...
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id3, itunes, library, playlist, tag
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
My new file storing powerhouse.
I like to keep my eye on on the price of hard disk storage. More storage more better is my philosophy. Not only can I never tell when I'll need an extra gigabyte or two for projects, but I'm justifiably paranoid about data failure and have become something of fiend for backups as a result. So I've been watching with interest as ...
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backup, hard drive, maxline, maxtor, storage, tunequest
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Recently, I've taken to re-encoding some of my favorite CDs, mostly ones that I originally encoded long ago, some as far back as 1999. Hard drive space was at a premium at the time, so I traded acceptable losses in quality for a smaller storage footprint. When the music is coming from a beige G3's internal speaker, 112 kbps and 320 kbps mp3s sound basically the ...
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aac, apple, itunes, lossless, max, pioneer, storage, velocity girl
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
A couple months ago, I wrote about the advantages of maintaining a large digital music library, specifically with regards to cost and storage as compared to maintaining a large physical music library. One of my points was that the decreasing prices of hard drives makes it increasingly easy to store, as well as backup large quantities of high-quality music.
I even went so far as to ...
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backup, hard drive, storage
Thursday, May 3, 2007
Remix albums and DJ albums have always proved a challenge to tag in a useful and logical manner because of how they differ from the traditional song-artist-album tagging model. Like compilations, remix albums typically include songs by a variety of artists and musicians. But they are released under the banner of a single artist and it is that artist that I associate that album with. For ...
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fila brazillia, id3, ipod, itunes, library, radiohead, tagging
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Yesterday, I wrote a detailed article about the new formula I'm using to quantify the overall quality of albums in my iTunes library. It's been working for me, but I realized that everyone rates their music differently. Webomatica, for example, explains in the comments that his song ratings are relative to other songs by the same artist.
So I'd like to explain the thought process that goes ...
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itunes, ratings, stars
Monday, February 19, 2007
I established in the previous article that with all the interesting content out there, it can be quite daunting to listen to all those great podcasts. The ease with which iTunes lets you discover, subscribe to and manage podcasts can quickly lead to an overwhelming number of episodes and timespan to get through. "Podcast Overload" is a very real possibility.
I also noted in that article that ...
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audacity, fast, itunes, podcasts, speed, tempo
Friday, February 9, 2007
Volkher at livingwithmusic posted the other day a rather thoughtful treatise against digital music files as a medium. He does a good job of bringing up all the relative shortcomings of abandoning physical media, including the effort required to encode/download and properly organize/tag files as well as the burden and cost that goes into storage and preventative backups. And he's right on the money about picking ...
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aac, hard drive, itunes, library, lossless, mp3, radiohead, storage
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Like clockwork, each January means the end of Christmas decorations, the onset of the full desolation of winter, learning the motor-memory of writing a new year and, of course, a sudden, massive hard drive failure. Every year since 2001 it has happened to me, always to my external music drive and always in January.
It's quite comical, if you have the right sense of humor.
Then it should ...
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backup, diskwarrior, hard drive, ipod, itunes, library, mac, synk
