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If you are a digital music fan, you are probably having trouble organizing your collection of music files. For me, I had hundreds of MP3 files bundled together in a folder on my hard drive. Can you imagine the pain I had to go through to find a specific song to listen to?

Organizing your music files is an important skill to learn. Once your collection is well sorted, you will be able to find the songs you want quickly and easily. So take some time and read the following tips that I have come up with.

1. Create subfolders

The most important tip for organizing your music files is to create subfolders on your hard drive. Never leave your MP3 files in a huge folder called C: My Music. Create subfolders like C: My MusicClassical, C: My MusicPop and C: My MusicSoundtracks.

2. Make sure your ID3 tags are correct

ID3 tags are used to store important information about MP3 files. Items like song title, artist, album are retained and will be displayed by your MP3 player. Take the time to edit these tags properly – many MP3 files that you download have all the wrong ID3 tag information. A good software for editing ID3 tags is TagScanner.

3. Invest in good music management software

There are several great software for managing music files. Two good ones come to mind. The first is MediaMonkey and the second is MusicMatch Jukebox. Both programs offer great music management features like a built-in music player, CD burning functionality, and ID3 tag renaming.

4. Get your music files from legal sources

If you download music using P2P (peer-to-peer) file sharing programs like KaZaa, you will most likely get music files that have weird names like 56_HeyjAck.mp3. My advice: Get your files from legal sources like iTunes or Napster online music services and you’ll avoid this problem.

5. Create good playlists

Most music playback software (eg Winamp) will allow you to create playlists. For example, let’s say you’re in the mood for rock songs, you can point to your folder called C: MusicRock and create a playlist from that folder. Save the playlist after creating it. The next time you feel like listening to those songs, all you have to do is load that playlist instead of browsing your hard drive and folders.

6. Get a huge hard drive

I know it sounds a little crazy – but running out of disk space can and will ruin your well-organized music collection. Make sure that you have enough disk space to store your music files. Let’s say you have 10,000 music files that you absolutely must keep and listen to. It is a very bad idea to store, say, 8,000 files on hard drive A and 2,000 files on hard drive B. Very complicated. It is best to store them all on one hard drive. So get your hands on the biggest hard drive you can find.

Conclusion

Hope this article helps you organize your music collection a little better. I know it takes some effort, but once your music collection is properly cataloged, listening to your music collection will be a much more enjoyable experience. So go ahead, get organized now!

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Source by Gary Hendricks