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How do you organise your music playlists?

Mainly aimed at those who use Spotify, Tidal, or any other streaming service like myself, but those who pirate music should still feel free to answer!

How do you organise your music library? Creating playlists is pure torture, in my opinion, because there are so many songs that overlap in genres. I’ve tried creating lists based on genres, but I’m the type of person to listen to multiple genres in one session so the switching between playlists kinda becomes inconvenient. Same with based on mood, I can still listen to discoesque or fast-paced songs when I’m feeling sad.

Genuinely considered hiring somebody to create the playlists for me, lol. I know having 800 songs in one list is clunky, but having everything in the same spot is a source of relief. Ugh.

nokturne213 ,

Outside of work I really only listen to one band. So I have one playlist that is their entire discography, one that is their singles (not released on albums), and one of their instrumentals. Those are all ordered chronologically.

At work I have a play list of a bunch of bands I like but have clean vocals (as opposed to growls). That one is grouped by when I heard the song and added the album to the play list.

strawberry ,

I've just got a general playlist, sad stuff, gym, and ERM. 95% of stuff gets dumped straight into the general one

houstoneulers ,

I make playlists by what songs i was feeling each year. This way I can go back and reminisce and reflect on what I was going through.

Some lists repeat the same songs but are generally uniquely. For example, Radiohead’s Creep is on many of my lists.

Fleppensteijn ,
@Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl avatar

I have different folders for different genres, then subdivided in folders for year of release.

I spent way too much time organizing this way back so I stick with it. Problems with this are that genes can overlap (could be fixed with symlinks?) and the year is something you often have to look up (id3 often shows year of the album which is not always the year it came out).

theskyisfalling ,

Music I DJ with I mostly play the same genre of music so I have a few playlists for stuff that is outside of my normal genre.

Then within the stuff I usually play I’ll have smart playlists for each key (using the Camelot system so 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B etc)

I have a playlist for each month that has everything I have imported for that month of the year.

Some smart playlists to filter out a specific BPM or BPM range.

Playlists containing all the releases I have from specific labels in case I want to do a label only mix.

A playlist containing all the acapellas I have (I don’t use a massive amount) so they are all in the same place to throw over the top of some other stuff if the feeling takes me.

Then I also have some playlists that I will create off the cuff throwing in selected artists that I might want to play at a particular time to capture a certain feel or vibe, then usually they stick around and I come back to them occasionally.

A preparation playlist which is a temp playlist where I’ll throw random stuff I want to play that day maybe. Like for example I might have like this months additions and marchs additions to my library so I’ll just throw both those playlists in the one preparation playlist to play from so they are all in one list.

My music is organised in alphabetical folders within each folder I have a folder for each artist where all their releases go. If I start getting a lot of stuff from one label or end up buying a label discography I’ll make a folder for that label and remove any releases that might be in the individual artists folder and place it in the label one instead.

Then I have one random folder that has a few genre specific folders inside where I collect music from artists that I might just have one or two tracks from so they don’t deserve their own artists folder.

When I actually listen to music on Spotify I don’t use playlists. I want to listen to albums in the way they were intended, front to back usually, so I’ll usually just pick what ever album I want at the time. Occasionally if I want to delve into an unknown to me genre I might search out a playlist made by someone else to explore artists I don’t know to give me an idea of what I might want to then pursue listening to further.

small44 ,

I never felt the need of creating playlists. I just have one playlist with all my songs. My local music player allows to switch between platlists and albums so if i want to listen to a whole album, i don’t have the remember the last position in my big playlist

clark OP ,
@clark@midwest.social avatar

That actually might work out for me. Is there any way to download my Spotify songs as mp3s with accurate metadata/tags so I don’t have to do it manually?

small44 ,

I use zotify but i not an audiophile, i don’t know if the quality is good or bad for you

strawberry ,

Spotify doesn't have great quality to begin with (320kbps, whereas lossless starts at 1411kbps)

some_guy ,

I have smart playlists for genres and for star ratings (1-5). The way the star ratings work is as follows (keep in mind that I mostly shuffle the entire library while on the go when reading how I interact with the library):

  • 1 star | This is something to delete (from the days before I could do that on-device); I don’t have anything that’s 1 star anymore because we moved on

  • 2 stars | This got my attention and made me check my device to find out the song / artist; this song is something special

  • 3 stars | These are the bangers of my library

  • 5 stars | There’s nothing better

I don’t use 4 stars; therefore, everything is either no stars (meaning normal) or 2, 3, or 5 stars.

The rule is that if I check my device to find out the song / artist and the song doesn’t already have a star rating, it automatically gets promoted to 2 stars. If it already has a star rating, it goes up by one, from 0-2, 2-3, or 3-5. This system works perfectly for me, such that when I bumped a song from 2-3 stars the other day, I said to myself, aloud (in my car), “the system works!”

I either select a genre and shuffle / randomize or I select a star rating and shuffle / randomize or (most often) I choose the entire song library and shuffle / randomize. This works well enough that I have no need for manual playlists. The only exception to this was creating a playlist for a dinner party where all the guests were other couples and the music was highly curated for a single evening.

southsamurai ,
@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works avatar

Organization of them is highly dependent on what kind of player you’re using, because they don’t all have the same tools. Someone else would have to help you regarding services and software.

But I’m never shy about having a few dozen playlists. Nor about changing them on the fly. My digital collection is only about a terabyte currently, after a recent purge of duplicates and stuff I had saved for other people. But I’ve got something like thirty playlists on my pc, and about the same on my phone, dedicated phone music player, etc.

Since all my apps/programs default to alphabetical order for playlists, it’s pretty easy to know where the list I want is. Just scroll and find it. The band specific lists, I’ll always know where they are. Same with purpose lists like holidays. For vibes, I tend to go with the kind of mood I want to be in after listening for a bit.

Then again, I actually enjoy making playlists. I find it fun to make a list that flows, regardless of how many genres are on it.

Like I have a list called “rain” on my pc. Every song is about, or includes rain in the lyrics. The ones that use rain sound effects (like Garth Brooks, the Thunder Rolls) start the list. Garth’s is the last song on that section, and Keith Whitley’s I’m no stranger to the rain is after that. That transitions into I wish it would rain by the temptations, and so on. As the list gets played, there’s a sense of progression like a rain storm can ebb and flow through rhythm and strength.

That’s just fun for me. I get to listen to the music and really sink into it as I adjust the list for how the vibe shifts, the speed of it, etc. I’ve got lists that are similarly built that are themed on wolves & werewolves, good & evil, dreams, etc. It’s almost a hobby sometimes, just not a super frequent one.

But, I also have a miscellaneous list on every device. No real organization of it, it’s just a long list with stuff I know I’ll enjoy listening to for extended times. If I want to change the order, I can switch the sorting via the player from artist, album, or whatever options are available, and it becomes a different playlist. The one on my main phone is something like 300 songs, and that’s the smallest of them.

My “feel better” lists can range all across the board for genres, like you. They tend to start with sad songs as catharsis, stuff that I know will make me cry, or at least make me intensify the sadness so that I can’t keep it locked down and controlled, which lets me feel the sorrow more fully. Then the songs gradually shift to things that help me contemplate and process. Then finishes with things that are uplifting for me, and/or make me laugh.

I don’t know if any of that will be helpful at all, but there it is lol.

Fwiw, there’s nothing wrong with getting help building a list. I do it for my wife fairly often, and for friends too.

The key to making that easy is naming things in the same way you’ll be looking for the list

Darkassassin07 ,
@Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca avatar

Poorly.

ssm ,
@ssm@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

${MUSICDIR}/artist/song.ext lol

deranger ,

No /album/ ?

some_guy ,

Seriously, the person you’re replying to is committing a crime by leaving that out.

ZagamTheVile , (edited )

(This is for native storage but I’m bored and want to contribute)

I do the genre thing. I’ll simplify them first. Like I have-
1 big one for Ska.
1 for first wave ska.
1 for second wave.
1 for 3rd.
No reggae, thats 1st wave. Same with rocksteady, dub, dance hall, etc.
Metal is all metal. No crossover or Nü.
I do separate Punk and Skate Punk though, the latter being the old Thrasher Mag Skate Rock tapes.
Rock is a mess but everything from AcDc to Pusa. Hip-hop is anything that even could be considered rap.
EDM is the same.

Just super broad strokes. Then a playlist is either a genre or two or the entire catalog of a few bands. Occasionally, if I get super motivated, I’ll do a playlist with albums, but rarely any more specific than that unless I need something particular- Like one for running, or a game session.

safesyrup ,

On spotify you can create folders and i put my playlist in folders named after genres

Moonguide ,

Vibe, and purpose. I have a gym playlist full of metal, 90’s rap, and some bebop. I also have a playlist for rock, another for metal, a classical playlist, a medievalish playlist (think Danheim, Heilung, The HU, etc), and another for just jazz. I also have playlists for the decades spanning from the 50’s to the 90’s. Ended up doing playlists for whenever I’m feeling really good, and for whenever I’m down in the dumps, just in case.

The decades playlists really help with being handed the aux. Most people don’t do well going from Toto or Green Day to Messhuggah and Opeth, so, dividing a genre by decade is good. I know my grandma will not vibe with Polyphia, so I play her some latin music, classical, or jazz, and she’s fine with it.

This leads to many, many playlists, and there’s a lot of overlap, but I don’t really mind as long as I can make sure I have a playlist for any mood I might find myself in.

ReeSilva ,
@ReeSilva@bolha.forum avatar

tbh, I’m always “getting” ready to create a social network to share Playlists based on ActivityPub because sometimes I want Playlists from my friend but they all use Spotify and I use Tidal. Your post inspired me to start it, because now I know there is others with the same need. Anyone who wants to join me, please send me a DM :)

clark OP ,
@clark@midwest.social avatar

Now that I think about it, using a website that could gain access to your playlist and move around the different songs to new playlists (based on genre/mood/etc) would be a godsend…

Zachariah ,
@Zachariah@lemmy.world avatar

soundiiz.com does this. It’s a pay service, but inexpensive and allows import/export of open formats such as CSV.

It works with most streaming services.

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