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5 Simple Steps to Organize Your Music - How to Find Space For Your New Beatles Remastered Box Set

Can't wait to get your hands on the Beatles Remastered Box Set?

You've got to be excited about all the great songs that are coming your way - and don't forget the mini-documentaries!

Problem is, where you gonna put 'em?

You want them on your desktop and then on your iPod or whatever MP3 you're using. But that's 12 CDs of music.

It's a hassle waiting to get worse. Here's 5 steps to organize your music to free up space.

1. Make sure you have a big enough hard drive.

You want all your music on the same drive. How big is big enough? The average MP3 music file encoded at high quality will be about 4 MB. So figure 1 Gig of storage for every 250 songs.

Get a 2.5-inch external drive. They're easy to carry. And you can get one that draws power directly from the USB connection so you don't need external power.

2. To organize MP3s, correct your ID3 tags so you know what you have and where to find it

Even in a small collection - 2,000 to 3,000 tracks - about 15% have never been played. That's because a lot of them look like "track 09.mp3" or "Listen to this.mp3". I'm not gonna ask you where you got them.

You want ALL your Beatles songs to say "The Beatles" and not have a bunch of variations. While your at it, get your missing album artwork.

This is where you'll put in your hours.

Even with a good program like TagScanner, you're searching freedb or Amazon by hand to get info to fill in missing artists, years, and genres. TagScanner can pull information from the file names, but that may not be what you want.

3. Get rid of as many duplicates as you can

Now the editing pays off.

About 5% of your collection are dupes. If you've got 5,000 tracks, you've got about 250 dupes or a Gig of wasted space.

OK, this will take some time too.

Find your dupes, figure out which are at a better bit rate, which are live versions, and which are longer club versions, so you can decide which to keep.

4. To further organize your music, get good music management software

Something like MusicMatch Jukebox or MediaMonkey will give you an integrated music player, CD burning, and ID3 tag editing. And they'll let you create playlists so you have your jogging_tracks separate from your on_the_bus tracks.

Now you'll be able to get at the songs in the Beatles Remastered Box Set whn you put it in your library.

5. Clean and reorganize your collection each month

If you're a real down loader, you'll need to reorganize your music library in a month.

Look up your albums again, correct your ID3 tags, find your dupes and delete the ones you don't want and you'll have more space and 20% more songs you didn't realize you owned.

Sounds great, takes too long?

Short cut the whole process with a music organizer. Part with a few bucks, and get back a day of your life. Get a system that will organize music for you - find and fill in artists, years, and genre, fix misspelled songs, even rank and remove your dupes - all really automatically, not like other systems where you still have to look everything up one-at-a-time.

Find out how to organize your music automatically at

http://OrganizeMyMusic.info/


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