The rest of it was perfect, but that 5% was really annoying. In my case, around 5% of my collection ended up in iCloud with bad or missing cover art, or duplicate tracks. Apple quickly fixed some of the major issues, but duplicate tracks and bad cover art continue to be a problem for some. The worst problems turned out to be a mix of bad engineering and users not understanding how the service worked. For those of us who had spent years finessing large collections into perfect shape, this was a non-starter. But a lot of people were complaining about botched metadata, duplicate tracks, and ridiculously wrong cover art. Brilliant.īut while the core service was brilliant, the other shoe dropped almost immediately after launch - people were getting some really weird results with iCloud Music Library, the component that lets you upload your existing collection into their cloud. Check out this “ Influences on Talking Heads” playlist they laid on me one day - if this isn’t playlist nirvana, I don’t know what is. And within days of starting to use it, Apple Music was putting incredible stuff in front of me - absolutely nailing my tastes. No more “People who like this also liked that” algorithmic baloney of other services, but a real investment in human editors and curators who could help with the “discovery” problem in a way that no chunk of code can. Not to mention access to expert human curation. All 30 million+ of their tracks at your fingertips, perfectly integrated with the familiar iTunes interface and your existing collection, available from any device. When Apple Music was announced, it promised to solve the “let me access my own music from the cloud” problem for once and for all. At its largest, the collection was almost 6x larger (though I’ve done some paring down in recent months). ![]() But when iTunes Match finally arrived, my collection was already 3x larger than its upper limit of 25k tracks allowed, so that was a non-starter (though I begged to be able to throw money at them for a larger quota). So, over to you! Have you ever had to do this? What tools do you think Dean should use, or avoid? Please share your thoughts and methods in the comments.Taming a Mammoth Music Collection (no, this is not me).īecause my collection includes a lot of obscure and out-of-print music digitized from LP and other sources, Spotify and rdio were never options I loved (and I didn’t want to start over!) All I ever wanted was a good cloud-based solution for iTunes. ![]() To be honest, I am not experienced in such high-volume file management (for club DJs I recommend much, much smaller collections), so I’d love to ask our karaoke / video / mobile DJ readers what they do or what they’d do in this situation. Not sure how this would work for karaoke or video. If not, look at Audio Dedupe, although as I’ve always used iTunes to organise my music, it’s a tool I haven’t personally tried. You need a much smaller collection anyway in my view, but I’d say make a backup of the whole thing first, then try TuneUp! or DupeAway, assuming you’re organising your music in iTunes. Can you think of the best way to remove any dupes and put them on another hard drive? (That way I could go back and get them, if needed).” Digital DJ Tips says: I think I might have 25% duplicate songs. Now I have have a 2TB external drive full, with video and karaoke, too. ![]() Today’s Over To You comes from a mobile DJ, Dean, who says: “One question that I have is that I have been saving all my music for years and have crunched all my CDs to MP3. How would you advise a mobile DJ with audio, video and karaoke files to proceed? Deduping a large music collection can be time-consuming, confusing and unreliable.
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