Advice on music/formats...

Okay I have thousands of songs on my home PC, but I have a big problem and don't know what to do. Here are the specifics:

1. Some albums I listened to once, but now never listen to at all.
   
2. I like one or two songs on an album and never listen to the rest
   
3. Some albums are compilations with duplicates of songs from the original album it featured on.
   
4. I have songs just because a CD was given to me, not because I really like the band
   
5. I have songs in Lossless Format, but also in MP3/AAC to take with me as I go.
   
6. I'm a wannabe audiophile
   
7. I have only a few dozen of my music on CDs (purchased) while the rest I bought online.
   

What should I do to neatly organize my music (and hopefully retain some quality in the process)?

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Pick a standard format to use, for the music you have on cd. (the purchased online, shouldn't be changed, degrades quality)

For lossely, I do ogg. Lossless FLAC.

To help pick you might want to do a blind hearing test.

For organizing music, you'll want to first plan how you want to organize, be you do anything. (its pain when you suddenly change how you want to sort)

Suggestion for directories: genre/artist/[date] album/tracknumber title.mp3

Personally I have a lot of various artists. So I separate between the two first.

#444286

try backing up your music, then adding it to itunes and pressing consolidate library.

i would, but i can't find anything big enough to back it up on, my ipod is getting abit small for this...

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Thanks guys. I decided to go lossless from now on. HD space isn't an issue for me so that'll remain the standard for CD importing. For my on-the-go library, I'll stick to Apple's cheezy 128aac, as I've noticed that's not horrendously bad, plus i have a lot of .m4p files from iTS so it fits nicely. :cool:

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