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  1. Just interested how all you guys handle your music library.


    This is how i handle it now:

    All shows are in a Music\U2\Live\TOURNAME\ folder

    Artist = U2
    Date = date of show in year-month-date format
    Album = Just a fancy name like 'Turn On Your Radios Sheffield'


    Also i have 2 custom fields
    Location = Amsterdam, Milan, etc
    Tour = 2009-2010 - U2 360 Tour



    I am currently developing a program to search U2 shows on your computer and create a report on which shows you have and miss. Of course i will share this program with all of you when its done

    So how are you keeping your u2 shows organized ?
  2. Great topic.

    In terms of on my computer, I have folders set up like this:

    Matt/U2/ Tour Name + Date + (City)

    So, for example, when I click on my U2 folder, I see...

    360° 08-20-09 (Sheffield)
    360° 09-13-09 (Chicago IL)
    Elevation 10-25-01 (NYC)

    etc, etc.

    My iTunes however, is a different story. I used to organize them with the fancy names like "Turn On Your Radio" and such, but it became a hassle when trying to listen to a show on my iPod, and forgetting what Vertigo//Brussels's nickname was. So I have them set up like this. I'll throw out an example from each tour I have, alphabetically, along with certain exceptions.

    The Boy Tour: 5/15/81: San Francisco, CA

    Elevation Tour: 10/16/01: Chicago, IL

    Go Home: U2 Live from Slane Castle, Ireland
    Exception, because it was an official release that I ripped audio from.

    Hasta La Vista, Baby! PopMart: Live from Mexico City
    This is an exception, because it was officially released as such

    The Joshua Tree Tour: 11/07/87: Denver, CO

    Live in Irving Plaza, NYC: 12/05/2000
    Exception because it was Elevation Promo

    Lovetown: 12/01/89: Osaka, Japan

    October Tour: 11/14/81: Boston, MA

    PopMart: 8/28/97: Leeds, England

    Unforgettable Fire Tour: 11/21/84: Dortmund, Germany

    Vertigo//Live from Chicago, IL: 9/21/05

    ZooTV: 6/11/92: Stockholm

    The 360° Tour: 07/02/09: Barcelona

    As you can see, it's all pretty structured. I had to switch it up for Vertigo to include the slashes though, haha.
  3. Because my bootleg collection is small, I only have a folder for each tour and put the bootlegs into them. As for iTunes, I organise my bootlegs by dates.
  4. folder for each tour. A folder for each leg of a tour within that and the shows listed as

    2009-06-30 - Barcelona
    2009-07-02 - Barcelona

    etc etc
  5. Interesting Matt ! But isnt it hard to sort on date using your system ?

    Originally posted by yuri31:Because my bootleg collection is small, I only have a folder for each tour and put the bootlegs into them. As for iTunes, I organise my bootlegs by dates.


    Same as me. Works great with the > 200 lossy boots I have

    Originally posted by germcevoy:folder for each tour. A folder for each leg of a tour within that and the shows listed as

    2009-06-30 - Barcelona
    2009-07-02 - Barcelona

    etc etc


    Same as me Very standard but very useful
  6. MP3/U2/Bootlegs/2005 - Vertigo tour/2005-07-13 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Amsterdam ArenA (BoyB recording)

    And

    Lossless/Audio/2005-07-13 Amsterdam (BoyB recording)

    For example
  7. Originally posted by Remy:MP3/U2/Bootlegs/2005 - Vertigo tour/2005-07-13 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Amsterdam ArenA (BoyB recording)

    And

    Lossless/Audio/2005-07-13 Amsterdam (BoyB recording)

    For example


    Nearly the same. I split lossless and lossy,video in an artists folder.

    U2\Live\Lossless\2000-2001 - Elevation Tour\2001-07-09 - Stockholm
    U2\Live\Lossy\2000-2001 - Elevation Tour\2001-07-09 - Stockholm
    U2\Live\Video\ (not yet tour based, complete mess )

    Not a big difference, you have all lossless stuff (of all artists) in one folder, and i have all stuff of an artist in one folder.
  8. Mine goes as follows:

    Folder - Tour Name - Date (month/date/year) - Venue

    Example:

    Folder Name: Vertigo
    Within This Folder I Have Tour Dates
    03-02-06 - Buenos Aires, Argentina
    Then Track Listings - 01 - Intro

    I also prefer soundboard or IEM/Matrix and 5 star AUD recordings. But I'll listen to them all. Do most people perfer the better soundings recordings?


  9. I don't really ever have a reason to sort on date...I know where everything is when I want to listen to it, and even when listening on the computer, I plug my iPod in and go from there, so its the most organized of all my bootlegs' houses.

    I only ever listen to one boot at a time; never consecutively by date, so my system works for me. Interesting to read everyone elses' though.
  10. Originally posted by germcevoy:folder for each tour. A folder for each leg of a tour within that and the shows listed as

    2009-06-30 - Barcelona
    2009-07-02 - Barcelona

    etc etc


    Thats how I do it. Except for like I have that as the album title and don't really organize it as much for iTunes.
  11. Originally posted by germcevoy:folder for each tour. A folder for each leg of a tour within that and the shows listed as

    2009-06-30 - Barcelona
    2009-07-02 - Barcelona

    etc etc


    Me too. I even bought an external hard drive just for all the shows. Then i just copy different shows over to my laptop and sync my little ipod nano depending what i am in the mood for
  12. Mine are just automatically sorted by iTunes. So folder names within iTunes\Music\U2 are same as album name, example being:

    Wembley Stadium, London, England (15/08/2009) [BBC]

    Then each track is:

    Until The End Of The World (Live from London, England, 15/08/2009)

    Tracks are named like that so that on last.fm they are separate from studio versions. If I just name each live performance of 'One' as 'One' or 'One (Live)' then there's no distinction.

    Inside iTunes, the grouping is usually the name of the tour, so 'Until The End Of The World (Live from London, England, 15/08/2009)' would be grouped as 'U2 360 Tour'. Good for sorting into tour playlists.

    The genre is live. Easy way to stop them playing on shuffle.