I’m wondering how do you guys organize digital music library (either on laptop or DAC) for best experience?
I personally use DAC and what I do is to download whole albums and put it in. Benefit: very tidy, looks nice. Drawbacks: you have to listen to the whole album (some people prefer to do this).
Streaming: Benefit: the playlists are nice. Drawback: on DAC it is slow, and you don’t own the music, and the library can get messy when you add too many stuff.
I wonder which method do you prefer? Or does it depend on occations?
I use Media Monkey. I bought the lifetime version many years ago. No idea what it costs nowadays.
On the desktop, it does everything plus the kitchen sink, yet I’ve never really liked it that much.
The mobile (android version): terrible. I ended up sorting my playlists into folders (by dragging the folder off my desktop) then just selecting the folder to play the songs in media monkey on my phone. Also I have not yet figured out how to remove non-existent songs on Media Monkey android.
Deleting a song will turn that track grey on media monkey android. I’ve uninstalled then reinstalled, cleared the data and the cache, and yet I can’t get rid of those greyed out songs.
Either version: mobile or desktop, Media Monkey is very clunky. To really turn your music collection into something more than selecting music by it’s default sorting options [artist, name, genre, album, and some others], you’d need to turn Media Monkey into a life sucking major hobby.
Even in making a simple playlist, I just find songs then copy/past songs into a new folder, because songs in a folder can be easily moved to other devices that doesn’t depend on having Media Monkey installed on it.