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Re: iTunes Organization (for Classical Music)

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Charles H. Sampson:

> I'm a classical music fan and I'm thinking about ripping my modest CD
> collection (200+ CDs) using iTunes. Since software comes
> documentation-free nowadays, I'm stumped on a couple of points. I've
> been using Help and the Pogue book (The Missing Manual) without much
> luck.
> 
> It appears that the main data structure in iTunes is a flat list of
> everything in the library. This can get very long very quickly.
> 
> The only organizational structure that I see is the playlist but it
> isn't really intended to be used as an organizational structure. It's
> just a way of grouping things that you might want to hear together.
> 
> Is there a way to organize things heirarchally? As an example, a
> "folder" dedicated to Beethoven. In it might be other "folders"
> dedicated to symphonies, sonatas, piano concertos, etc. Each of these
> might have "folders" for holding particular performances. And so on and
> so on.

That would be a playlist dedicated to Beethoven. I have a playlist with
all of my Beethoven works. I have additional playlists with Beethoven's
quartets, operas, concerti, etc. You can have the same music in as many
playlists as you wish.

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iTunes Organization (for Classical Music) csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2015-04-19 10:54 -0700
  Re: iTunes Organization (for Classical Music) nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-19 14:09 -0400
  Re: iTunes Organization (for Classical Music) gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2015-04-19 11:30 -0700
  Re: iTunes Organization (for Classical Music) AV3 <arvimide@earthlink.net> - 2015-04-19 18:51 -0400
  Re: iTunes Organization (for Classical Music) Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2015-04-19 19:40 -0400
  Re: iTunes Organization (for Classical Music) jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2015-04-20 21:05 +1200

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