Post #400
+1, especially on the smart playlists and the playlist folders. Those are HUGE - I recently discovered the folders and I couldn't be happier because I was getting to the point where I wanted more playlists for genres/energy levels but my playlists were already so numerous I had to spend significant time even looking through them to begin with.
What I do for mine, aside from what's been mentioned, is I made a smart playlist for incoming music. So after I've downloaded a bunch of tracks, I'll throw them into my music folder and drag them into my iTunes library. Since I have the smart playlist set up, anything after a certain date that I set shows up in my "incoming music" playlist. This lets me listen to all of my new tracks, delete/separate out ones I don't like/don't like for DJing, and then put the rest of the new tunes into my other organized playlists. This makes it so that a) I can make sure all of my new music gets categorized correctly and b) I don't have to categorize it immediately when I download it. Once I've sorted everything I change the date for the smart playlist to be the day I organized it, and nothing I've added before that date will show up on that playlist while everything I've added after that date will show. Occasionally (about once a month or so) I'll back up all of my music to an external, and when I do that I put the files into folders titled by playlist. That way, if iTunes shits the bed I at least have another hard copy backup of my playlists. I also, obviously, export the playlists - that I do about once a week when I remember to.
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