How do you keep track of the tracks you are missing? I'm a bear of very little brain, so I have to write it down. Little scraps of paper get lost, so I keep notes in a file. But the file grew too big, and I could not remember what I had and what I was missing, so I developed a workflow. It goes like this:
When I hear something interesting, I...
1. look up the artist and album in AMG.
2. Cut and paste the track list into a text file. (MissingMusic.txt)
3. Acquire music. By the album, track, whatever, blah, blah, blah.
4. Open MJ.
5. Import new tracks into MJ.
6. From the Reciently Imported list, move tracks into their proper artist.
Now comes the tedious part, checking the imported tracks against the tracks MissingMusic.txt
7. Go to the Artist/Album listing in MJ for the new tracks.
8. Open MissingMusic.txt. Move MissingMusic and MJ around the screen so that I can see the track list in both MJ and MissingMusic
9. Arrange tracks onto proper albums as necessary, referring to MissingMusic as necessary.
10. Drag tracks into album order, revering to MissingMusic.
11. Tick and Tie between the two lists, checking album, title, length.
12. Put a * next to the entries in MissingMusic that are no longer missing.
13. If the album is complete, or complete enough, open it in Properties
14. Fix the Title, Year, Genre, and other properties as necessary.
15. Use RenameFileFromProperties to fix the file name.
16. Save the changes.
17. Remove the entries from MissingMusic.txt
Repeat as necessary. What a pain.
Anyone have a better method for keeping track of what they have vs. what is missing?
-Nef
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Topic: Keeping Track Of The Music You DONT Have, But Want (Read 660 times)