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  • March 10, 2013 at 4:32 pm #37809
    DJ Vintage
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    I mean really, guys ??? Nobody?

    March 10, 2013 at 5:05 pm #37810
    indamix
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    hii , i dont know a tool that does that 🙂 i dont think it exist “yet”
    i had more then 45k tracks , and im using MediaMonkey as a player
    listened to all tracks , suffered from severe headaches , but i did in few days , workd hard like a slaved

    do fast listening like 2 hours per-day , not easy but thinks its the only way , track by track
    but when u finish , you will feel like a Semi-God 😛 hahahaha , you will forget all the headaches and eyes bluring 🙂

    March 11, 2013 at 3:03 pm #37849
    colione25@yahoo.com
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    Chuck van Eekelen, post: 37965, member: 2756 wrote: I mean really, guys ??? Nobody?

    Here you go buddy- the only tool right now that I can think of that works in the capacity you describe is Itunes. All you have to do is load your tunes to the music section. Listen to each track and delete what you don’t. When you click delete, it asks you to check the box if you don’t want to be asked again. The problem with that is there are always accidents.

    Personally, I would spend a weekend and sit in front of the TV and organize your tunes. It is pain staking but there is no “easy” way about it. We can’t get so comfy just cause technology has evolved. There must be work put into place…. Not calling you lazy but don’t get to complacent. With the ease of technology comes risks for deleting and never recovering your music again… I almost lost the same amount of files due to a faulty hard drive… Took me two days to recover the files.

    PM if you need assistance organizing your tunes by folder/genre/subgenre. I have it down.

    March 11, 2013 at 5:29 pm #37859
    DJ Vintage
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    Hi,

    Thanks for the heads up. One of the things I absolutely HATE about iTunes is that it only gives up control very reluctantly. I have found out the way to open iTunes with a seperate library (which is the way I’d want to go) only to find that it automatically pulls in everything I ever bought in the store. When you want to delete those, it tells you they will be gone, also from your other libraries and other iCloud devices!

    I have the accidental delete covered. My entire collection (mostly in complete albums and all in lossless format) is on a big old NAS (4 disk). Also on the NAS is my batch converted MP3 collection, all correctly tagged and bpm-ed. The MP3 collection has been imported into Traktor (a while ago) and has been totally analyzed and (for the most part) de-duplicated :-). Let’s call this my operational collection. It sits on two syncronized external hard disks.
    I have a 1 TB external HD emptied out and will make a copy of my operational collection there. This is where I will start deleting files from.

    Since I will keep my current operational collections on external HD, I can always find a file I might have accidentally deleted through the explorer in Traktor and import them into my new and improved and WAY smaller collection :-).

    I don’t think I am being either lazy or complacent. I am just trying to find if a tool exists that prevents all the unnecessary mouse clicks and movements. I’ll give iTunes another shot, but it remains the most user unfriendly piece of software I have ever encountered. I am also looking into winamp, apparently there is an intro scan plugin for it. Not sure how easy the delete functionality would work with that.

    I am very interested in finding out some more about organizing files, so I’ll PM you about it sometimes soon.

    Thanks again and greetinx,
    C.

    March 13, 2013 at 12:32 am #37892
    gullum
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    in traktor make a new playlist and set it as preparation list. now you could map a button to sen track to preparatinon list. You can then listen through folder and add the songs you want to delete to the preparation list with that mapped button and when you get tiered of listings go to preparation list sellect alll and choose delete from collection a pup up will ask what you want to do with it there you can check to also delete from harddrive. only pain is you need to load each song into deck or preview player.

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