It's after 10pm here on a Saturday night, and my music-finding post is finally done and posted! ⚡
I know we all find music in different ways, and I wanted to write a bit on it. These are my methods and tools. Comment away on your own methods and tools-- I'd love to see everyone else's process, too!
Had to do a massive cleanup of the folder my metal mp3s & FLACs are in so when my playlist goes through them as I work (even in plain alphabetical order), there'll be nothing I won't wanna hear. I want a true no-skip collection.
It took MANY hours to pick out and get rid of the more mediocre stuff. Now I'm testing it out. Started at A for Act of Impalement a few hours ago, and I'm going all the way through to W for Wormridden. Wonder how long it'll take me to listen to all of it. 108 bands, 20GB worth of files. I'm currently in the Bs (Bog Wizard).
Despite learning a lot about computers when I was a kid from the Apple Performa my family had, I've never been an Apple guy, despite owning an iMac once myself. I also really didn't like iTunes, so I never had an iPod.
Back around 2005ish when people were mostly getting iPods and before I got my beloved brown Zune (that someone later stole) I had a wild and wacky (and physically HUGE in comparison) DMC XClef mp3 player that looked like this. It had a LOT of storage space for the time, for the price, and had no software like Apple or Microsoft packaged in with their mp3 players. You didn't need it! You would just plug it up to your computer and transfer the damn files, as it should be. A method I use to this very day with my phones.
And I just looked it up to compare, 5th generation iPods around 2005 had about 30 or 60GB drives, these XClefs had 80 to 100GB. I had a friend joke saying I'd never fill it up - and I had to tell him I already pretty much had. 😂