How "OCD" are you about organizing your music?

[bmcorrier]

So, just as the title suggests, how "OCD" are you about organizing your music in your iTunes/WMP/something else?

I have seen people's music lists. One album by one band will have 3-4 different genres under that small list from where they downloaded the songs from different people. One band name could have different looks to it. Ex. (Metallica, METALLICA, metallica, MetallicA).

Are you a stiff about organizing your music like me? I can spend an entire day organizing music, renaming it, changing genres, band names so it will look perfect. I like having the album artwork on my iTunes also. I usually purchase albums so I don't have much of an organizational problem, but still.

So, how "OCD" are you...

[Shredder87]

Very.

I have them by Genre, alphabetical order, year, ect.

[hawkofva]

I spent several hours last night sorting all of my Who music into their appropriate original albums and putting the original release years on them as well. Most of the music of theirs I had was bought piecemeal from recent remastered cds and greatest hits albums.

[trench762]

not at all, they are strung across my floor, or in totes or on cd spindels

[jacobB12`]

Yeah i spent my whole day a few weeks ago finding all of the album covers on the internet, renaming songs, bands, putting years in. that kind of stuff

[bmcorrier]

Very.

I have them by Genre, alphabetical order, year, ect.

I do too. I can't function otherwise, haha. I have all my dvd's organized by either style of movie (Ex. Gladiator, King Arthur, Braveheart, 300 are all together). Or by trilogies/seasons. Some in a six degrees of Kevin Bacon style, and last, by directors (Judd Apatow).

[Captain Zepp 07]

-- Artist name has to be the same (for all which apply)
-- Album Artist has to be the same (for all which apply)
-- Genre must be appropriate for each song (Best Of albums for bands with more then one, like AFI)
-- Album Artwork must be the real deal (no alternative cover)
-- Year, Composer, and Genre must be exact


Those are my main issues, I hate it when the filed split up although they all agree... really ******ed

[Meatwad555]

I don't really care about the genres. Quite a few of my albums (1081 total albums) have album covers though.

[Refero]

Anyone have a website or something where I can find the album composers? Or should I just stick the band name in there?

[Aragha]

Anyone have a website or something where I can find the album composers? Or should I just stick the band name in there?

It'll usually say in the CD booklet.

[Transbrak]

I have everything organized a certain file structure with all the correct tags.

and all the album art in itunes.

i spend way too much time on it.

[bmaninc]

I am very, very, very OCD about WMP and Zune software's music. It just has to be right.

[TopazDolphin]

The album and song titles have to match the one on the CD. If not, it drives me crazy.

Otherwise, whatever iTunes says, I agree with (unless there's a spelling error, which there have been...)

[harbingerofdoom]

up until i actually got an ipod, i just had everything sorted by rock, humor and mellow stuff. the file names had to be band - song title.
with the way the ipod likes to rename files to meaningless stuff, i gave up on that and now the id3 tags have to have band, title, year released, album and genre (and if i can get it, the album art).
but now that im up to like 5000+ songs, im glad i got into that habit... makes it much easier to find stuff.

[sa_nick]

I dont ever use playlists, and I dont keep all my music together in 1 program, instead I just have a music folder and I open what I wanna listen to when I wanna listen it.

I started doing this because I was too OCD if i had a full playlist, and didnt have time to fix every single error on the files I have.

But I keep my folders pretty tidy, I've attached an image of what I have. Basicly 1 folder with all my albums, and then I have a seperate folder for my NIN stuff. Works pretty well, and everything is easy to find.

[kiggidykev]

I used to not care very much back in the day when I only had like 50 mp3s total.

Since I've been using iTunes, though, I've been VERY anal about how my music is sorted. I hate it when files have the wrong tags, and spent an entire weekend going through to make sure all the boxes were filled in correctly (some bands showing up twice accidentally, like "Motley Crue" with and without umlauts).

Someday, I'd like to update it all so that everything has the album art, too, but that's for another day.

[macamatic]

I'm pretty anal about it, but I leave most of the fields blank. The only ones I use are Title, Artist, and Album. I prefer sorting my albums alphabetically, and I never bother with genre (generally, if I'm in the mood for something specific, it's a particular band or album - or group of bands/albums, in which case I just make a smart playlist), so it works great. In fact, I'm very anal about making sure every other field is BLANK.

I like having artwork, but mostly I just let iTunes find it for me. One day I will find artwork for the rest of my songs.

What I am EXTREMELY OCD about is capitalization. I have a certain way, which differs from virtually every other I've seen, that I capitalize things, and if it's any different I get angry, unless it's an integral part of the song title (and the only example of that I can think of is Slipknot's "Eyel e Ss", although Marilyn Manson's sAINT and mOBSCENE would make good ones if I didn't hate them).

[Xaris3514]

I just want my music sorted by artist, album and track listing, but other than that, I don't care. My need for things to be sorted with those three, though is enough to make me spend literal hours fixing things in the Zune program so it will sync with my Zune in the correct sorting.

[eringoesmoo]

All I care about is being organized by artist : /

[Chemical Phoenix]

I'm not too crazy about genres, usually I let iTunes do the job horribly, with the years getting the same treatment

I really focus on: Song name, Band name, Album name and album cover art for my iPod

[whofan]

So, just as the title suggests, how "OCD" are you about organizing your music in your iTunes/WMP/something else?

I have seen people's music lists. One album by one band will have 3-4 different genres under that small list from where they downloaded the songs from different people. One band name could have different looks to it. Ex. (Metallica, METALLICA, metallica, MetallicA).

Are you a stiff about organizing your music like me? I can spend an entire day organizing music, renaming it, changing genres, band names so it will look perfect. I like having the album artwork on my iTunes also. I usually purchase albums so I don't have much of an organizational problem, but still.

So, how "OCD" are you...
I have spent entire weekends working on organizing my music collection (CDs, Vinyl and Digital).

With over 12,000 songs on my IPOD, over 150 Vinyl and over 300 CDs I have to make sure that everything is where it is supposed to be.

That is to say that on my IPod, every song has:
1) Proper and complete song titles that have every word (yes, even "A" and "The" and "On") capitalized.
2) Proper composer listing
3) Proper ORIGINAL album, unless it is a greatest hits compilation for an artist that I already have all of the original albums for (i.e. I have the entire Iron Maiden Catalogue, so the tracks on "Edward The Great" and "Somewhere Back In Time: 1980-1989" are listed under those respective albums)
4) Proper band name
5) Proper year
6) Proper publication company
7) Proper track numbers
8) If the album is more than one disc, I combine the discs together to make the album whole so that I can listen to it from start to finish

My vinyl and CD collections are organized by band, and then chronologically within that.

For example it looks something like this

The Beatles:
-Help!
-1962-1966 (Red Album)
- Beatles Ballads
- 20 Golden Hits

The Clash:
-The Clash (1977)
- Give 'Em Enough Rope (1978)
- The Clash (1979)
- London Calling (1979)

The Donnas:
- *****in'

Etc....

[Lolicat]

The, a and on shouldn't be capitalised. It's bad grammar.

As for my collection, I'm neurotic, that's what I was doing last night, rejigging all the genre tags and adding in notes to my library.

[AxlVanHagar]

I'm not too bad, alphabetical order by artist then in chronolgical order by release. Solo project or or side projects get their own spot on the shelf. For example Izzy Stradlin's solo albums are under S not mixed in with the Guns n' Roses cd's. Rob Halford is under H or in the case of his band Two it's T. I don't keep them with the Judas Priest stuff.

Soundtracks I alphabetize by the composer not the film.

And it's just cd's, I don't own an MP3 player.

[whofan]

The, a and on shouldn't be capitalised. It's bad grammar.

As for my collection, I'm neurotic, that's what I was doing last night, rejigging all the genre tags and adding in notes to my library.
Does it look like I care about grammer when titling my songs on my Ipod?

I do it because it looks better when searching through the song titles, or looking at the titles, not because I'm trying to be 100% grammatically correct.

[Lolicat]

Does it look like I care about grammer when titling my songs on my Ipod?

I do it because it looks better when searching through the song titles, or looking at the titles, not because I'm trying to be 100% grammatically correct.

Cool, I just wondered why you'd do that. Personally those words being capitalised looks bad to me and drives me nuts.

[whofan]

Cool, I just wondered why you'd do that. Personally those words being capitalised looks bad to me and drives me nuts.
No problem, they usually do to me too, except in song titles for some reason

[topperharley]

My CD collection is organized by artist, with each artist's CD in order of release date, but I don't organize the artists in any manner, other than the artists I listen to most are generally on the shelf that's at eye level, while the ones I listen to less often generally are on the upper shelf.

I don't get too anal about iTunes organization, except when it comes to compilations. For example, I have a three disc collection of SRV which has a lot of live stuff and alternate versions and stuff like that, and iTunes separated it into "Stevie Ray Vaughan with [guest artist]" so that there were about a dozen different artist names listed individually. To me, it's all Stevie Ray Vaughan, so I changed the file information for that.

As far as genres, I don't care. All my music is in the "music I like" genre.

[Lolicat]

My CD collection is organized by artist, with each artist's CD in order of release date, but I don't organize the artists in any manner, other than the artists I listen to most are generally on the shelf that's at eye level, while the ones I listen to less often generally are on the upper shelf.

I don't get too anal about iTunes organization, except when it comes to compilations. For example, I have a three disc collection of SRV which has a lot of live stuff and alternate versions and stuff like that, and iTunes separated it into "Stevie Ray Vaughan with [guest artist]" so that there were about a dozen different artist names listed individually. To me, it's all Stevie Ray Vaughan, so I changed the file information for that.

As far as genres, I don't care. All my music is in the "music I like" genre.

I put guest artists as 'feat. ---' in the song title.

[sweet-t310]

Every physical mp3 file I own is listed as "Band - Song", located in a "/My Music/Band/Album" folder. Each file is tagged with correct Band Name, Song Title, Album Name, Album Year, and Genre.


Oh, did I mention I have 18,520 mp3's?

[RockBandRocker]

Very!

The only thing I find funny about it is when I end up with something like Madonna next to Metallica, Journey next to The Killers, etc.

I listen to so much different stuff that seeing it together makes me laugh.

[whofan]

Very!

The only thing I find funny about it is when I end up with something like Madonna next to Metallica, Journey next to The Killers, etc.

I listen to so much different stuff that seeing it together makes me laugh.
Mismatches from my own collection:
Roy Orbison next to Royal Trux
Scandal next to Scorpions
Sex Pistols next to Sheena Easton
Shinedown next to Shirley Basey
The Smurfs next to Social Distortion
Quiet Riot next to R.E.M.
The Mother Hips next to Motley Crue
Men Without Hats next to Metallica

And many more.

[FlameSama1]

Alphabetized, and with proper titling. And notes for being a Live album or a Tribute album.

Kinda OCD I guess.

[Lolicat]

Alphabetized, and with proper titling. And notes for being a Live album or a Tribute album.

Kinda OCD I guess.

It's not OCD, it's normal... Gotta make my precious all organised...

[Gowienczyk]

My Music Folder is organized by letter, artist and album.

I usually have my year/genre tags perfect and still need to clean up on my new genre system.