Apple Music putting all of the individual cute tracks with the complete albums. 

 

I dont remember if Spotify also does this.

 

But anyway how do you organize music library?

 

 

I mostly listen to albums rather than random songs, sometimes I do playlists based on the season or a mood

I listen to full Albums and remove the Songs I don't really Like or I rearrange the Tracklist. 

I used to use playlists, but now I don't organize my music anymore. I just look them up and listen to them or pull them from my recent search history on Spotify.

I don't

My playlist is very random and messy but that's the beauty of it

I have made over 200 playlists on Spotify, lol.

 

 

 

 

Link in my signature.

 

Edited October 6, 20232 yr by ToMmY

I need to find a way to organize music. I used to have the songs I liked in iTunes and now with Spotify I just like songs I like and listen to them on shuffle. Sometimes I create playlists.

• I have a playlist of all my current favourite songs (its like my mix for car drives and stuff)
• I Got playlist of just singles  (few playlists sorted by seasons, months, years etc.) - etc in spoiler (ignore the pics, i went through a denis stoff stanning stage) 

Spoiler

Based on my YTT chart i've had going for 20+ years

 

Based on My Monthly Hottest Songs of Past 3 Decades

• An Allday playlist (because ofcourse)
• A Playlist of songs I'll keep on loop for streams 

 

I'm very OCD with my playlists I put way too much time into them x_x

on spotify i don't do library (like doing those 'add to library' thingy) because you could just search for the artist/album easily, but i usually add new music (if it's an album i'll add one song just as a link) to a playlist called "New Music Friday" then i'll add my favorites to several playlists, and i usually also make artists playlists and rearranged album playlists

i mostly listen to albums anyway, sometimes i make "The Essentials" playlists for artists i currently love (like Rihanna, H.E.R., Beyonce, Tinashe, etc)

 

on Apple Music, i add everything artists i listen to to my library (because if i don't then it won't count for lastfm) and searching on AM isn't as simple as Spotify, as for playlists i usually just do several quick playlist for songs i'm currently obsessed on (like on spotify), and i also do "The Essentials", artists playlists and rearranged album playlists just like on Spotify

 

and if you're asking yes i subscribe both AM and Spotify because i prefer AM but it doesn't work seamlessly on a windows laptop for when i'm working

i just add to my 'liked songs' for individual tracks and listen to albums in my recently played 
can't be arsed anymore with organising playlists

I create playlists based on mood 

- A 'current faves' playlist

- Two throwback playlists (one pre-2000s, the other from the 2000s-early 2010s where the nostalgia hits strongest)

- Year end playlists where I compile my top 100 songs from each year

- Two Eurovision playlists, one for actual ESC entries and another for national final songs

 

All my other playlists are either separated by genre (e.g. I have a country music playlist), language (I listen to a lot of Italian music so that has its own playlist) or artist if I listen to a lot of their music

 

I used to be a lot more organised with my playlists when I used iTunes, now that I switched to Spotify i'm more slack

I have playlists on spotify and in my local music player but I tend to listen to full albums unless I'm working out. Spotify isn't my main source of listening it's mostly for discovery and following other people.

By the artist’s BMI

2 hours ago, queenoftheclouds said:

I listen to full Albums and remove the Songs I don't really Like or I rearrange the Tracklist. 

Do you use Spotify or AM? I'd love to that. Can you change the artwork too? 

I just add all the songs I like into one playlist

I use MusicBee. It's a software for organizing your local music library. I have over 1TB of music, all in 320kbps, tagged, with all metadata and artwork. So Basically all I have to think about is the way to structure folders and I do the following: If it's a discography I do: 

Albums -> Artist -> Album Name (Year) -> Songs.m3

If it's a random song from some playlist it's

Singles -> Songs.mp3

Then from inside the program it looks like this and it automatically scans all new music downloaded.

 

 

From there I have the option to send the music to all my devices (because they are backed up on my cloud). I love that I can chose my own artwork and artist image. I will never pay for streaming idgaf!!!

 

 

3 hours ago, ariananext said:

I mostly listen to albums rather than random songs, sometimes I do playlists based on the season or a mood

This.

I just have a giant playlist with all the songs I like. Well not all, because there are songs I would really only listen to in the context of an album so they aren't on there. 
It's messy but it works for me. 

Then I have like a separate playlist for Kpop and then one that's got more chill tracks for like if people are over and I want to put something on. 

every month i make a playlist of new music i listen to currently, add some old songs (i'm currently obsessed with), match covers who have similar colors or just let it be. i listen to playlists organized by spoitfy.

 

i used to have huge itunes library but it doesn't fit in my phone anymore and songs started going 'missing'

I don't 

I am honestly embarassingly organized I turn my favorite albums into playlists and even use fan covers for them.

i make monthly playlists of the music i’m into atm, i rarely listen to albums in full 

First of all I buy music instead of streaming. I feel like I'm more in control of my library this way. I simply use ITunes for that.

 

Each file is tagged with very basic info (artist, album, artist album, explicit tag, cover, year etc.). I don't change the order of the tracklist.  If there's a song that was released during an album cycle but was not part of the album (like Nicki's Massive Attack wasn't a part of Pink Friday) I add it manually to that album, as the next track on the tracklist, change the cover etc. 

Sometimes If I don't like the official cover I change it as well either with alternative/deluxe one or good fanmade one. Everything is easy to find.

 

If the artist I like has a lot of guest appearances I create a separate "album" with all the features listed chronologically. (Nicki has several albums like that in my library).

 

When I'm doing something else and I want to have music playing in the background I just listen on shuffle. Sometimes I listen to whole albums when I'm in the mood or obssessed with particular record but most of the time when I focus on listening to music I pick a song manually. I have several thousand songs in my library so creating a playlist feels like a chore.

I have such random listening habits, my library is not organized at all