RancidRabbit wrote:Thanks, it's a lot harder to keep track when you take every CD and audio file your entire family owns and put them all onto a hard drive. A few burnt CDs have created my woe. Though I still worry what they mean by 'duplicates', cause I have multiples recordings of the same songs and some are better than others.
I manage my family's entire music collection, so I understand that frustration.
If all of y'all own separate iPods, I recommend making a playlist named after each family member. Then turn off the automatic syncing on all the iPods. After that, once you connect each device to a computer, just drag the playlist to the iPod, and everyone will have everything they want, and nothing they don't.
The only downfall is that you have to constantly update each respected playlist every time you obtain new music, but that's just a matter of highlighting the songs you want and dragging them over to a playlist.
~~~
Some keyboard shortcuts for your own amusement:
Ctrl and N to create a new playlist.
Ctrl and A to highlight ALL songs in the entire library (or playlist).
Highlighting an entire album quickly? Click the first song, hold down the shift key, click the last song you wanna highlight. All in between will be highlighted for you. ^_^
Correct me on any of those if anyone wants to, I'm pretty sure they're right but I'm also at a school computer at the moment.
~~~
Sometimes you will get duplicates in a library, especially if you're uploading from CDs. Make sure you have two of the exact same songs in that library to really see if you have duplicates; many times remixes will be considered duplicates as well.
Once you know that you really do have two of the exact same songs, you can right click on a song and click "Get Info" or something like that. Click the farthest left tab on the window that appears, and the Bit Rate is a good indication of sound quality.
This is a good example of what the page looks like, just disregard that circling.
The higher the bit rate, the better the sound quality. Just listen for which track sounds better to you, and delete the worse one to keep your library clean.