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The propa way to organise music?

I just want to be able to go into my music, and see the list of albums with the correct album art. then click on it and list all songs with correct names in that album.
I click on my mixzing music player, and i do see album's with album arts but some of them only have 1 track in where there should be about 22 (the full album) the album I have for example(now thats what i call music 72) has 5 selections which contains..
1 song
1 song
1 song
19 songs
1 song
so whenever i want to play the full album. I either have to play the 1 song and then switch or play the 19 songs and miss out on the 4 other songs. All songs are from the same album not sure why its doing this??
anybody got on tips on the best way to set up my music ?? thanks

I use Media Monkey to organize my music on my desktop, which is rather robust when it comes to tagging. Make sure that all the tags are the same. I've had to fix a few when dumping music on my Droid, and as long as the tags are right and the music is organized properly you should be good to go.
Generally speaking, my tracks are organized as such on the SD card.
/sdcard/Music///
I'm not sure if the physical arrangement comes into play or just the tagging, but I'm pretty meticulous when I rip/download music so I would have to play with it to find out. At the very least, it won't hurt.
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How to manage music in Windows Phone 7?

So I'm kind of an exception case for music, where I hunt for all my music via music blogs. The problem with this is that most of the songs I download aren't part of an album, and most of the time are pre releases, or bootlegs.
In these situations how do I organize my music through zune?!
Editing tag information in Zune REQUIRES an album name. Adding albums that don't have an album name are tagged "Unknown Album {Date Added}".
Is there any way to just have the songs without album names hidden? I've even tried using a space, but then it started grouping all of those together as an unknown album .
Other than that do you guys have a particular way in how you organize music?

mesofly said:
So I'm kind of an exception case for music, where I hunt for all my music via music blogs. The problem with this is that most of the songs I download aren't part of an album, and most of the time are pre releases, or bootlegs.
In these situations how do I organize my music through zune?!
Editing tag information in Zune REQUIRES an album name. Adding albums that don't have an album name are tagged "Unknown Album {Date Added}".
Is there any way to just have the songs without album names hidden? I've even tried using a space, but then it started grouping all of those together as an unknown album .
Other than that do you guys have a particular way in how you organize music?
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Uhm. I would just make a bogus album name (aka song name). There's no way to just have album so just do it that way. You can always just look at different ways to look at ur music, by artist, song, etc...

Zedox said:
Uhm. I would just make a bogus album name (aka song name). There's no way to just have album so just do it that way. You can always just look at different ways to look at ur music, by artist, song, etc...
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That's what I do for any artist where I have b-sides or demos in addition to the regular albums. I create an album called 'singles' and group all the non-album tracks under those. You could create different albums like this; demos, singles, bootlegs, etc.

Best way to manage music?

Anyone know a good way to manage music with a g2x??
I have well over 2k songs on my itunes. I have them all on my g2x, but it seems to have a poor music managing system.
Songs/Artists/Playlists are duplicated many times, playlists duplicate the songs within them sometimes, etc.
I'm wondering if theres a good software to manage the music on my phone?
Something comparable to itunes preferrably
I just want to be able to make playlists on my computer without them duplicating on my phone.
I've tried doubletwist, itunesagent (which doesn't copy playlists), and even winamp.

i'm just using Google Play

I'm just using Google Play Music as well and transfer my files via mass storage. Now I use the cloud for Google Play Music and just keep a few albums on my SD card. I have no problems with duplicates or any other issues.

You have to get a tag editor and
Make sure there filled out right... iTunes fixes them but the music players don't.
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Kplaylist + MediaMonkey + Google Play
All my music is on an a private web server that can stream all my music. I stopped using iTunes a long time ago, but all my music is on this web server.
http://www.kplaylist.net/
If you can setup an Apache Service with PHP, you will love this app. Its the only thing I use and get my music anywhere.
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MediaMonkey
http://www.mediamonkey.com/
I only use this to update the ID Tags of all my songs and add the album picture from the web. Its a bit tricky, but what I do is, when I decide I want to add and album to Google Play I tag and add the picture album then upload them.
I have like 40 gigs of music, and slowly have converted to Google play. I fix the tags and albums as I go. Its worked so far
Sometimes the picture or the album name comes out wrong, have to re-upload or manually correct it once its inside Google. It happens sometimes, especially if mediamonkey can't find the rare song online.
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Google Play
If done right, all the songs will be properly tagged and the album picture inside. Its running better now then when it was called (Google Music). Used to crash alot. The only decision you have is "Make available Offline"
In the end, when its nicely organized, I use Google Play way way more.

yoo992 said:
I've tried doubletwist, itunesagent (which doesn't copy playlists), and even winamp.
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I've been using Doubletwist and it copies my playlist from itunes just fine

I use Banshee Media Player. I have it set up to sync one specific playlist. It works in one-click and it even converts my FLAC files on the fly to V9 mp3! Even better, even though I have it set to sync one playlist, it keeps track of which tracks belong to other playlists too. I use it on Ubuntu but I think the sync options work on Windows too.
Edit: It also keeps my media tagged, downloads album art and sorts the files into an [Artist]>[Album] folder structure.

Music Organisation

Is there a way to transfer music from my PC/iTunes without losing all of the information such as album artwork and artist name? Just, when I transfer an album over at the moment, it puts some songs as individual albums instead of with the album their with. For example, I transferred over Some Nights by Fun (great album) and, whilst most of the tracks were fine, Carry On was listed under a separate album. Anyway to avoid this?

Any ideas?

Music Folder Player
Google Play: Music Folder Player
"If you regularly play music on your mobile Android device, then Music Folder Player may come in handy.
It can be annoying when playing ,music without tags for example of your ripped CD’s without downloading the ID3 tag. How about when you’ve added music in a ‘new music folder in your memory card without knowing exactly all the artists/albums? Well, the dev of the app, XDA forum member cyberniko says this is where his app can help.
Music Folder Player is available as a free version in the Market, and the dev is looking for feedback on tablets."
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/music-player-with-filefolder-browsing/

My friend ,
I'll try to explain what i've done with my mp3 library
It's all about the tag stored in the mp3 file itself
There's more than a version of this tag
One file can contain more than one version
That's make the conflict
I'm using a wonderful free software on my pc called mp3tag
There's nothing you can't do in the tag
Give it a try
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Maybe you could give Mediamonkey a try instead of itunes... It also allows syncing with Note.
www.mediamonkey.com
Ps. Not affiliated with this vendor, just sick of the bloated itunes and found a nice alternative.
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Brad387 said:
Is there a way to transfer music from my PC/iTunes without losing all of the information such as album artwork and artist name? Just, when I transfer an album over at the moment, it puts some songs as individual albums instead of with the album their with. For example, I transferred over Some Nights by Fun (great album) and, whilst most of the tracks were fine, Carry On was listed under a separate album. Anyway to avoid this?
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.vier.music.syncpro
I use this This is the greatest program I've used! I love iTunes for some reason, and this app syncs everything perfectly for me. I'd highly recommend it. It doesn't sync play count or stars, but that's OK. Playlists are all that I need and a fast easy interface.

Google Music Playlist Duplicate Songs/Nonsyncying Playlist Solution

For those of you who have had these problems (which is a number of you, as I found out after a quick search), I had the same problems and found a solution after tinkering about. The alternative, deleting all old music and resyncing, often still gave me problems so I'm hoping this will be helpful. If anyone has found a more elegant solution, please share it.
Step 1: Create a NEW Playlist in iTunes WITH A UNIQUE NAME THAT YOU HAVE NEVER USED BEFORE.
This is important. For whatever reason, the music player will assume a playlist with a name you've used in the past is already synced and it will ignore it. It also has to be a NEW playlist, not an old playlist that you rename. I used "Test1", "Test2", etc. Don't worry, you'll be able to change it to something else later.
Step 2: Add one song to the playlist that you do not actually want in the playlist.
Again, important. When you sync in the next step, the playlist that appears in google music won't contain the song you added.
Step 3: It may take a minute or so for the playlist to appear in the list of playlists to sync; wait until it is visible and then sync the playlist with google music manager.
Step 4: Wait for the Playlist to appear in google music. It will appear as an empty playlist.
Step 5: Remove the song from the playlist in iTunes and wait for the playlist to disappear from the list of playlists to sync in google music manager before syncing the playlists.
Empty playlists are not recognized as syncable so they will eventually disappear from the list of playlists that you can sync.
Step 6: Add ANOTHER song you do not actually want in the playlist
Again, when you resync in the next step, the song will not appear in the playlist on google music.
Step 7: Wait for the playlist to appear in google music manager, and then resync.
Step 8: After the playlist appears again in google music, add all the songs you actually want in the playlists, and sync the music manager.
You might have to sync a couple times and/or wait a couple minutes, but eventually, you will see that the songs are being added to the playlist in google music.
Step 9: After your songs are added, you can rename the playlist both in iTunes and in Google Music. It will still sync properly if you add and/or remove songs from it.

This is really annoying issue that keeps happening ..over and over and over again. Is there no solid fix? Anyone confirm this working without occurring again?

Thanks for posting this but I've tried this and it doesn't appear to work. I get all the way down until the part where I add the music I want on the playlist but my playlist doesn't sync.
Question though, your instructions miss out what to do with the last song you add to your playlist that you don't actually want on the playlist. Should this be deleted before I add the songs I do want on the playlist or after? Also, do I require do to this for all my playlists that have the duplication issue?
The duplication issue is driving me insane. So if anyone can help it would be much appreciated. Thanks.

I also have this issue. I have 3 or 4 songs duplicated in my library. So annoying.
Has anyone tried third party apps like DupeOut?

Still a bloody issue! Fix this **** google it's horrible

Yep...still happens. Solution above helped for a while, then back to this crap again.
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My Google music manager would upload the songs, upload the playlist name, but the playlist remains empty. This only started the beginning of this month and its driving me nuts! I use itunes to upload the playlists and I have un and reinstalled both itunes and music mananger several times hoping to solve the issue.
Can anyone shed some hope onto my problem?

robindra said:
My Google music manager would upload the songs, upload the playlist name, but the playlist remains empty. This only started the beginning of this month and its driving me nuts! I use itunes to upload the playlists and I have un and reinstalled both itunes and music mananger several times hoping to solve the issue.
Can anyone shed some hope onto my problem?
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This is the same problem I'm having. Google Music Manager will upload all my songs as well as upload the playlist name, but in Google Music, the playlist will remain empty.
Google Music Manager is such a buggy app and has been from the beginning!

JDStone said:
This is the same problem I'm having. Google Music Manager will upload all my songs as well as upload the playlist name, but in Google Music, the playlist will remain empty.
Google Music Manager is such a buggy app and has been from the beginning!
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Same here. I have tried removing all music and playlists online, clearing app data on my phone and tablet, uninstalling music manager and all preferences and files, created new playlists in iTunes and re-added the songs (even removed all music from iTunes and re-imported it), rebooted, re-installed music manager and tried to upload things again, everything uploads but my playlists are *STILL* empty. I have tried this from Mac Mavericks and even Windows 8.1. It was working perfectly fine a couple weeks ago, wonder if Google updated something that broke the playlists from populating. I sent them an e-mail, but haven't heard anything. Granted, it's a free service and you get what you pay for, it's frustrating to see a service with such great potential fall short because of a few bugs. I kind of wish they would come out with their own offline music player that would interface directly online, so I can get rid of iTunes once and for all!