How anal are you with your iPod?

[Kodos]

I find myself replacing greatest hits album covers with the cover of the album that a song originally appeared on. I also feel required to get the correct order for the song from that original album. I guess part of it is just the nostalgia from seeing an album cover from back when the song came out. Does anyone else feel the need to do crap like this?

[Klinglerware]

iPods are the devil's MP3 Player

[Dr. Sak]

I've never let my iPod anywhere near my ass.

[Kodos]

The thing is, I realize what a collosal waste of time it is, but I still find myself doing it.

[Kodos]

Originally Posted by Dr. Sak

I've never let my iPod anywhere near my ass.

Barring that one time that you "fell" on it in the shower.

[Dr. Sak]

Originally Posted by Kodos

Barring that one time that you "fell" on it in the shower.

How did you get a hold of the Emergency Room report?!!?!

[MJ4H]

No, all I care about is having the music on there to play when I want. I like to be able to find it, so having it properly labelled is important, too. Album covers do absolutely nothing for me. Album order is an interesting bit of trivia for me, nothing more, unless it is something like the movements of a symphony or something like that, then it becomes important to me.

[Pumpy Tudors]

Originally Posted by MJ4H

No, all I care about is having the music on there to play when I want. I like to be able to find it, so having it properly labelled is important, too. Album covers do absolutely nothing for me. Album order is an interesting bit of trivia for me, nothing more, unless it is something like the movements of a symphony or something like that, then it becomes important to me.

THIS GUY TEACHES BAND
I TRUST HIM

[Fidatelo]

Originally Posted by Kodos

I find myself replacing greatest hits album covers with the cover of the album that a song originally appeared on. I also feel required to get the correct order for the song from that original album. I guess part of it is just the nostalgia from seeing an album cover from back when the song came out. Does anyone else feel the need to do crap like this?

Greatest Hits albums are for housewives and little girls.

[Dr. Sak]

Originally Posted by Fidatelo

Greatest Hits albums are for housewives and little girls.

And Sean Avery

[Raiders Army]

Other than using the cover flow way to get to songs, it doesn't bother me to have the right album covers.

I mean, Kid Rock's Rock N Roll Jesus didn't come out on iTunes so I can't put a cover on there. If it's not a complete collection...

[Kodos]

Sure you can. Just look it up on Amazon or Wikipedia, copy the picture, and paste it in under the info tab.

[B & B]

OC.

Not anal.

[Galaxy]

Originally Posted by Dr. Sak

I've never let my iPod anywhere near my ass.

You must not be married.

[PackerFanatic]

Originally Posted by Kodos

The thing is, I realize what a collosal waste of time it is, but I still find myself doing it.

Same here.

[Phototropic]

Originally Posted by PackerFanatic

Same here.

I got one a couple of weeks ago and have been meticulously updating my library with correct names and artwork, making sure all the images are 300 X 300. Having half of the albums with art would bother me worse than not having that feature at all.

[terpkristin]

Originally Posted by MJ4H

No, all I care about is having the music on there to play when I want. I like to be able to find it, so having it properly labelled is important, too. Album covers do absolutely nothing for me. Album order is an interesting bit of trivia for me, nothing more, unless it is something like the movements of a symphony or something like that, then it becomes important to me.

+1

/tk

[M GO BLUE!!!]

I'm way past you.

Original album art.

Organized by year + month originally charted/released/genre.

If recording dates and musicians are knows, the info goes in the comments.

Eventually I want to put highest charted position too.

[MJ4H]

jesus christ

[atatange1]

I get wierded out more by the fact that it counts how many times it listens to a song, so I removed it from the 'view' section and will often reset it after a listen, and would totally do away with it if I knew how.

[Raiders Army]

Originally Posted by Kodos

Sure you can. Just look it up on Amazon or Wikipedia, copy the picture, and paste it in under the info tab.

Thanks. I didn't know that. I haven't messed much with iTunes, so I'll check it out.

[Mota]

I wish there was a way to have the release year of the album on the iPod. Often I'll listen to the library of a band and would like to do it in the released sequence, but in some cases I don't remember the order. It's easy in iTunes but not on the actual player.

I'm definitely obsessed with album covers. I'll often spend hours researching obscure bands to try and find their album covers to attach to iTunes. I've broken out my scanner from the closet to catch some of them from my old indy CD's that no one else has. I definitely do not feel like my import is complete until the cover is on there as well.

[Draft Dodger]

Originally Posted by Kodos

I find myself replacing greatest hits album covers with the cover of the album that a song originally appeared on. I also feel required to get the correct order for the song from that original album. I guess part of it is just the nostalgia from seeing an album cover from back when the song came out. Does anyone else feel the need to do crap like this?

I do something similar. If I have a song in my library twice, the original album and then the greatest hits version, I have to put the original version on the iPod.

I am very particular about my tags. Before anything goes into my library, I run MP3gain on it (so all songs are the same volume) and then check the tags. I've done this for all 30,000+ songs in my library.

Albums have to accurate album names, track listings and years (I'm a stickler for differentiating between "&" and "and" depending on what the artist used). I check allmusic or, more often of late, wikipedia, to make sure what I have matches up.

Single songs, though, I have to strip out album and track numbers (for a while I deleted year info, but I've started adding it) . If I later add that song as part of the entire album, I go back and delete the single version. I don't use genres and strip out all genre tags except for "country" and "christmas". All songs are renamed to "artist - track name" format and the capitalization needs to be consistent.

Once I import into iTunes, I make sure all the album images are attached and then I go through and rate the songs - if I like the song, it gets 3, 4 or 5 stars and goes on the iPod. If I don't, it gets no stars.

It's a lot of work - and a lot of the work is a waste of time, as some of the habits predate iTunes - but it's my system and I can't change now.

[Passacaglia]

Originally Posted by Raiders Army

Thanks. I didn't know that. I haven't messed much with iTunes, so I'll check it out.

Just a note -- you can select all the songs in an album, then add the art, instead of adding it to each song individually.

[Passacaglia]

Anyway, I like to have it organized, with album covers, plus I put the year before the album title, so I can see it on the ipod, and so the albums are chronological when listed. I don't do that for greatest hits, since I don't care what year those came out, and I delete any duplicates from them. I also have a system for rating songs that's pretty anal, and instead of just shuffling songs, I use party shuffle, and choose the option to play songs rated higher more often.

[kcchief19]

I have some similar iPod OCD. My most frustrating remains duets. I've wondered for years why Apple can't or won't add a secondary artist field so that I can have a song appear under both artists collections rather than creating a third artists field. I used to get around this by creating two copies of the file for each artist and including (duet with Xxxxx) in the song title. But since I already have too many video and audio files for my iPod to synch, I decided to abandon the pratice for space issues.

I realize the answer is that the iPod filing structure is based on an archaic albeit clean folder system for each artist but having more database options would be a huge plus.