My current way of organizing:
- My home / HiFi collection: all lossless M4A managed in iTunes, with extensive meta tagging and album art. I need to have it this way because I want to use iTunes and it won't accept FLAC and WAV doesn't have proper meta fields (e.g. ID3v2). This is my biggest collection (.7TB lossless) Sometimes I discover great stuff for a live set and copy it from here to my DJ collection.
- My bedroom DJ collection: It's a mixed collection but I prefer the highest quality available. This completely depends on what I can get my hands on (aka afford or have access to). Some stuff I have was only recorded on a cassette by some one-day Belgium New Wave band in the 80s. Other stuff is fully 24bit/96kHz. So you'll understand how much the quality varies here. All is managed in (a different library in) iTunes.
- My actual live DJ collection: Also managed in the same library as the bedroom collection. Smart playlists separate the WAV's from other formats. I've just started with this and I admit it, I'm confused. See below for my questions:
How do you manage your music?
And especially how to handle WAV files?
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