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Jaguu:

--- Quote ---In my case I gave careful thought to a tag design keeping it as simple as possible. Then I put my head down and worked hard for several months to tag my music.
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Yes, did the same back in 2001-2003. My music collection is very small, about 300 album, 6000 tracks, mostly classical. Nowadays, I hardly buy anything new. But my image collection is huge  57'000 images, 46'000 of those are artworks painted by about 200 artists exhibited in over 1000 galleries or held in private collections all over the world, about 90% properly tagged.  There are even artworks where the original paintings no longer exist as they have been destroyed in war times.  Tagging all those images was the real hard work!

I always wondered how you guys can maintain such huge collections and listen to all those tracks. On the other hand I have albums or tracks I listened to over a hundred times.

I think in the early 2000 King Sparta had by far the largest collection. Maybe he is still the record holder.

broncodan:
Daydream!  You totally summed up how I feel about my collection.

It is 98k+ and I know there is a lot of great stuff there (and some garbage).  I used a great tool designed by someone here (track year lookup) - an excel spreadsheet that gets original year from Discogs - it took me a while as Discogs will ban you for too many hits but I finally got original track years for most of my songs.  It was easy for most of the albums as those had the correct year but this was invaluable for those various artist's albums, etc.

I then utilized the same excel spreadsheet to compare data from my library to the Whitburn spreadsheet (google it) which provided me with some chart data.  I then re-imported that data into my library into a custom column and then used that as a guideline to rate the majority of my tracks - e.g. - 1 or 2 on chart = 5 stars, 3 - 5 4 stars, etc.   This has at least given me a basis for some smartlist and at least got me an initial baseline rating.  I can't say enough about how the TRACK YEAR LOOKUP has helped me with comparing data and getting it back into my library.

Then of course I rate other songs that I like or hear or raise/lower the ratings as I see fit. 

I really want moods/themes and there are several posts about this and I looked at them all but determined that I didn't want a bunch of garbage tags in my library - so have put this off.  I also looked at the Moody program and the Moodagent program - the moodagent program is based on some science but deals with colors - so not sure how exactly that works but it is a plugin for winamp but haven't used.

Another thing that I think would be great is the ability to share playlists - as I often find as I listen to my friends music that they have selected music that it is similar to my tastes but they are picking different songs.  There is a program (Listfix) that will take a playlist - search your files and update the playlist with the correct path so then you can use that playlist on your machine.  I haven't played around with it much but it seems like it works. It would be a great idea or something to incorporate this feature into MC.  e.g. - import a shared playlist (or smartlist for that matter) from another JRiver user, run a compare and update feature that updates the playlists with your library and update as necessary.   

I feel your pain and like to see what other people are doing - seems like most people use this for Video/tv but I mainly use it for music...

crisnee:
broncodan, thanks so much for mentioning listfix, just what I needed.

rjm:
Just installed Songza on my iPad which is an app for enjoying other people's playlists. It seems to be very popular in the iOS world.

Your idea of building listfix into MC could be a really nice feature for the JRiver community.

vairulez:
what could also be great if we can share playlist is to have a system that would show the songs we don't have if we have let's say at least 30% of the songs that are in the playlist. Or a system that would say "users who listened to this song also listen to ...". This could help discover new artists.

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