[rdecker]

I have more than 500 GB of Movies TV shows and Music on a 1 TB drive. I'm getting worried about filling up the drive and then having to put new purchases on a second drive. How can I span the disks to have one big library?

[katzcrawford]

I keep just my 5 star rated songs on my iPod, plus the not-rated ones (which are on a smart playlist). I try to listen almost exclusively to the not-rated playlist so that I can rate them on the go.

[snowline89]

what i have never understood, is why keep the songs you don't like and won't really listen to? thats wasted space, so you can devote your libray/hd to better media. I mean come on, how likely are you to listen to all your music anyway before you die, not to mention before interests fade to new ones? There's not that much time, and its pretty pointless to sav that one bad song for that one time maybe in the kind of sort of distant future that you may listen to it under the lining of all the planets. Who are you trying to impress? The artists that will never see your library to say "hey, I have your whole album, IM your biggest fan. Like me more." Half the songs they make are to fill up an album, and aren't that good for a reason. You're lying to yourself and them by keeping them, which doesn't really help any integrity at all. In the age of growing internet downloads, and the eventual demise of the cd, albums will become more obsolete, as more people begin to download just the songs they like, and save their money for the other ones they like. Kudos to all of you for maintaing a large library, now put your library on play and try to listen/watch every media file you own. Good luck!

[MrMacGod]

Sharepod(Windows! If you are looking for a simple and lightweight software to get the synchronization done quickly and easily, then Sharepod would be a good choice. Sharepod
is nothing more than a software for you to sync your iPod and iPhone.
While you can play music directly from your iPhone within Sharepod, the
music player is only minimal and does not offer much options.

[MrMacGod]

SharePod (Windows)! If you are looking for a simple and lightweight Jobs software to get the synchronization done quickly and easily, then Sharepod would be a good choice. Sharepod is nothing more than a software for you to sync your Stellenmarkt iPod and iPhone. While you can play music directly from your iPhone Stellenangebote within Sharepod, the music player is only minimal and does not offer much options.

[polymnia]

Snowline89:

I have been collecting music long enough to have sold CDs I was sure were permanently played out only to buy them back a decade later (GnR's Appetite for Destruction comes to mind). Having done that a few times I am loathe to delete anything permananetly. In these days of such incredibly cheap HDD cost, it is more sensible to mask off the music you aren't interested in right now by keeping it off of your usual playlists yet keep it accessible if you have a moment of nostalgia.

That said: I do delete one kind of track—SXSW music festival has a multi gigabyte torrent of every year's performers. It is free and legal. Great way to collect a ton of (mostly) new music on the cheap. If I hate one of those I mark it with 1 star and every now and then I search out all 1 star SXSW tracks and delete them.

One isue I have had over time is that by rating a song with a star and then mostly lixtening to only music over a certain star threshold, I don't have as many opportunities to rediscover things from the past.

[katzcrawford]

At first, when ripping songs from my CD's, I would "pre-listen" and only download the tracks I liked - for the purpose of saving space. Then, I would listen to all the downloaded songs on my iPod to rate them. But with as many CD's as I have, that process became too time consuming and tedious. So, I started to just rip entire CD's a year or so ago.

I have found that my judging/rating standards have evolved over the past several years that I have been doing this. I used to be a tougher critic than I am now: - can't stand to hear it, simply doesn't belong in the collection; - flawed, not very good, can be a less than pleasurable listening experience overall, even if it has some redeeming quality; - good, perfectly listenable, but nothing really special; - very good, happy to hear it almost any time, deserving of inclusion in any "best of" genre or artist playlist; * - great, a classic, a personal favorite.

If I listened again to the three stars-rated songs from five years ago, I'm sure that I would bump many up to four stars. And there are probably more than a few cuts that I didn't even rip, that belong in the collection. With hundreds of CD's yet to rip, and then hundreds of LP records to convert to digital files before I die, I don't think I'll ever get around to re-rating anything, let alone re-ripping. I should have always ripped the entire CD.