![]() For videos, I just name them (apart from home videos, which I use the date format). For music, I let iTunes manage the naming. I use this for all files except my media files. Following on from the point above, it enables me to keep a very simple version control system which is extremely easy to maintain.If I change the date every time I make a change I can see when I last made an update.I can easily scan through the list of files and see how they interrelate in time.Any desktop search you use can quickly search on the date in the title.Sorting by the file or folder name quickly sorts chronologically.What I now do (for pretty much every file that I work with) is to put the date at the beginning in reverse in this format: One thing I did like to do was to include the date I worked on the file in the file name, but I never thought of this tip until recently - I'm sure it's not a completely original idea, but it makes complete sense to me. I never followed a particular convention of any sort. ![]() I always used to name files and folders randomly. Let me know how you organise your library or if you have a better way altogether. Let's see how long it takes to get through it all… I started listening to my entire library at about the same time I started this blog. At home we use the Genius function to give us random playlists based on a song we feel like hearing at the time. At work, in the car and on my iPhone I have started listening to all the singles I bought on CD (1995 to 2000) which is quite amusing as I haven't heard all this stuff for years. I am hoping that this will be a little less overbearing that a huge list of 25,000 tracks. Here is a screenshot of all my non-smart (thick?) playlists: I then have sub-categories under this do break the music down a bit more into nice chunks. Music I have downloaded (and yes, I used Napster back in 20, so please don't judge me).Music I bought on CD before the advent of the mp3 revolution.My latest 'idea' involves splitting my library into 3 main categories: See this post to see where I've come from and where I'm trying to get to. I'm not talking smart playlists here - I'm interested in your permanent playlists that you use to segregate your music to make it more manageable.įor example, I have about 25,000 tracks and I have bee 'umm'ing and 'err'ing on how best to organise them and structure them for listening (since I want to at least go through all the tracks and chuck out anything I don't like anymore). I am specifically trying to find out what your playlist structure is like. Here's one for the commenters: I would like to know how you organise your iTunes library.
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