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I have progressed from copying & setting up all my photos, scrapping stuff & various editing softwares to doing the same for my music.
My photos & scrapping stuff is hella organized. It’s all sorted by type or date in folders & tagged with info in either Lightroom or ACDSee. If I need a red ribbon I can quickly locate over a dozen. If I want photos of Drake swimming I can pull up all of them ever taken with two clicks.
If I want to listen to some punk rock…not so much.
I have 5 basic music genres currently – rock, 80’s, alternative, Celtic and Christmas.
And only Christmas would not make someone question my classification. I think we can all agree Hark the Herald Angels Sing is a Christmas song, even if Twisted Sister is doing the singing. But what is People are Strange by Echo & the Bunnymen or Connection by Elastica?
Both of them fall under ‘punkish’ to me since I associate them with specific people & places in my past. I classify all my music by what memories I associate with them. Everything by Meatloaf, even his 2006 Bat Out of Hell III album, is 80’s to me. Same with Duran Duran & Bon Jovi. Green Day is sort of alternative to me because I first heard of them from someone who was big into alternative music. Or are they really pop? At what point does an alternative band receive enough regular airplay that they become pop:?
I realize the only person I have to please with these categories is myself (and possibly DH) but this is one of those things I feel I should ‘do properly’ (to quote James May on Top Gear). I’ve tried checking to see what genres various things were in on iTunes & other places like the Gracenote info, but I find I disagree often & half the time they are inconsistent with artists. Is Blackmore’s Night rock? folk? R&B (seriously?)? folk/alternative? World music?
Plus I want to know where some of this information that is appearing in my Window’s Media Player came from.
I am pretty sure Gloria Gaynor did not sing I Will Survive in 2010 & since I loaded it off of a Woman Power CD I bought in the late 80s, the argument that that is when the album was created is invalid.
And I have this nagging sensation that I did this once already back in 2009 when I got the ASUS. But I must have done it in some non-iTunes or non-Windows Media software because here I am, 2 years later, having to do it again.
Of course, I wasn’t sleeping then, so possibly I thought about doing it, didn’t actually do it but somehow my memories of the event got confused & left me thinking I had.
It wouldn’t be the first time.
What sort of music to you listen to? What type of genres do you have set up? I really need suggestions.
I have to admit that I”m not a big music person. I only have a few albums and songs on my ipad. Recent purchases are Walk the Moon, Sharon Jones and Muford and Sons. I also like the new Red Hot Chili Peppers album but haven’t bought it yet.
rinda
We haven’t tagged our music by genre either- it’s just one (large) folder arranged by artist name. This actually works ok for us because most of the time we want to listen to an album. I only get tripped up when I want to listen to a compilation album & forget what the title of the one I want is. I don’t dare even let my mp3 player do ‘shuffle’ mode because I have some ATC recordings on there too (airplane flight crews talking to control towers- sometimes very entertaining. LiveATC.net).
Lately I’ve been on a massive Bad Religion kick, while DH has been addicted to the latest Dream Theater album. Our digital collection mostly grows by me raiding the box of CDs in the basement. I’m sort of stuck in the 90s, music-wise.
Genres are just too confusing. I tend to arrange my music in itunes by playlist more than anything else. I have a playlist for new stuff, one for driving music, another for chilling out and another for when I feel like something more lively. And because they’re my definitions, I can put whatever the heck I like in them.
Echo & the Bunnymen’s People are strange is in my driving music playlist, btw. As is most of the Meatloaf. Currently I can’t get enough of Linkin Park, Muse and The Music.