Best Way to Organize Music on iPod?

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doomdragon6

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That isn't iTunes.

I haven't updated my iPod in maybe 2 years now, so I'm itching to get some new fucking music on it.

I decided to organize all my music, which is scattered near and far throughout my computer and external drives. I've gotten everything together and sorted them based on albums, soundtracks, collections, etc.

Thing is, I know iTunes has its own method of organizing crap that pisses me off. How can I add my music to my iPod in a folder format that I have set myself?

For example, I don't like sorting by artist because I have lots of random unsorted stuff and sorting by artist would give me 300 "artist' folders with one song in them.

Second question: If this isn't easily doable, what mp3 player should I look into for this sort of thing? My iPod is very very old and I would not mind shelling out some cash to upgrade to a new player with more storage-- and if it allows me to sort my music the way I want to, then I'm all for it.

Any suggestions?
 
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wana10

You're probably going to want to try to find an mp3 player that offers browsing by folder instead of only sorting by id3tag. I have a cowon a2 with that option. Like you I've got everything nicely sorted into folders but as ipods don't seem to play nicely with the albumartist tag ipods make a mess out of my collection.
 
doomdragon6

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I'll look into that, thanks.

Anyone else have suggestions? I haven't hit google yet because I haven't had time to just sit down and say "Alright, let's analyze everything."
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

iTunes has the genius mix, click a song and hit the genius button and it will sort 24 songs to play along with that one. It is not perfect, the industrial mix it made for me had AC/DC and Johnny Cash in it...
 
Espy

Espy

sixpackshaker said:
iTunes has the genius mix, click a song and hit the genius button and it will sort 24 songs to play along with that one. It is not perfect, the industrial mix it made for me had AC/DC and Johnny Cash in it...
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He's looking for a way to organize music. Genius mix, while fun, won't help him very much. Like I said:
1) Click Create New Playlist
2) Put songs in playlist
3) ????
4) Profit!
 
doomdragon6

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The problem with the playlist is that I'd have to do it for EVERY category I have, right?

For example, I start here:
Albums
Compilations
Soundtracks
Unsorted

I click "Soundtracks," bringing me to:

Anime
Movies
Shows
Video Games
Other

I click "Anime" which brings me to a list of many anime, one of which is Naruto. I click Naruto:

Naruto Best Hits!
Naruto OST 1
Naruto OST 2
Naruto Movie OST
Naruto OPs and EDs

I click "OPs and EDs" and then start playing from there.

Can I even make folders within folders in playlists?

I shouldn't have to do that crap. I want to drag the already existing file structure I have and plop it right into an MP3 players. Presumably all mp3 players do this, so I can't even begin to pick one. But I'd also hate to get something new because my iPod is still a perfectly good 80gig iPod.

I just want to be able to organize my shittin' music the way I want to. @_@
 
Espy

Espy

Uh... It sounds you just want to play a certain album? Why not just play the album from the "sort by album" category?

Basically your iPod gives you several ways to organize that most people find convenient, by artist, album or personal playlist want to use a highly personalized system then you are going to have to find another mp3 player. Or simplify your stuff a bit so if you want to play "Nirvana- bleach" click artist-nirvana-bleach.
 
doomdragon6

doomdragon6

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The problem with "Artist" is that I have a lot of unsorted or compilations, so I'd have 300 folders with one song in them.

The problem with Albums is there there is no sorting to them; the album name is just listed in aplhabetical order.

Looks like I'll either need a new mp3 player (my ipod's button is stuck anyway), or just rip apart the id3 tags and sort them all ghetto-riggedly like that.
 
SpecialKO

SpecialKO

I know it's not an ideal solution, but iTunes has supported multi-level playlist folders for years, so while i get that building a lot the smart playlists will take time, you can totally do it and sync them to your iPod.
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

Your file structure on your computer does not matter, iTunes ignores it anyway when it puts your songs on the iPod. It just randomly throws shit on the local drive. Just be sure everything has tags.
 
doomdragon6

doomdragon6

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Well, I went and organized the music like I wanted in iTunes. It took about 4-5 hours, but whatevs. Thanks all. :p
 
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