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iPod owners, please help...

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Tapomay
Tapomay Original post #1
Jun 12, 2007 at 12:18 AM
Hi friends,
Recently I bought an iPod video and transfered a part of my music collection into it. But I found it's difficult to organize those albums in it. I want to organize my songs as -

Albums
BENGALI
Album --
Film --
HINDI
Album --
Film --
ENGLISH--
MUSIC --


So I have to creat some folders and subfolders under it's 'ALBUMS' menu; but I don't know how to do it. I downloaded it's manual from apple's site, but no information regarding this was there. Is it possible to organize songs as I described? If anyone know how to do it, please let me know it. Thanks.

NB.- You can also help me describing some other way to keep the player organized (especially yours method). Thanks again.
gauravakaasid
Jun 12, 2007 at 6:24 PM
hmm...thats a toughie....coz itunes organizes the tracks according to the metadata of the files and not how u arrange it. mayb the geeks can help u out. :)
fun2sh
fun2sh #3
Jun 12, 2007 at 6:48 PM
try anapod instead of stupid suckin itunes
A
Jun 12, 2007 at 6:56 PM
For itunes, I do it this way:

There is a field "Grouping" for songs in itunes. use this feature and you can sort by groups in itunes.

This does not work for ipod. You can create playlists based on grouping field (smart playlist).
Tapomay
Tapomay #5
Jun 12, 2007 at 11:36 PM
Thanks for your suggestions mates...
iMav
iMav #6
Jun 12, 2007 at 11:42 PM
now if u wanna do it based on bengali ... select all ur songs chnge their genre, and then their blah blah

same wa for hindi ;)
pannaguma
Jun 13, 2007 at 8:50 AM
use mediamonkey to help efficiently manage metadata.
aditya.shevade
Jun 13, 2007 at 9:11 AM
If you want to do this and use iTunes, then the best way is what ambandla suggested. Create playlists. Like, "English - Life" second "Bengali - NameOfAlbum"... That would be the best option IMO, cause I am using it.
aryayush
Jun 13, 2007 at 4:25 PM
You asked me this question in a private message and this is what I answered:
aryayush said:
Hello! :)
Albums are not folders and they are not supposed to be used as such.
If you want to group your Hindi and English songs together, you have to make two playlists for them and then add your songs to the playlists. :)

This is the best way. You can also set the genres accordingly but I thought you would find it difficult to go into genres and all. Plus, genres are not actually meant for this purpose.
dreamcatcher
Jun 13, 2007 at 5:15 PM
just create the playlists in itunes and transfer songs accordingly..or just change the genres in itunes..theres virtually nuthin u can do inside the ipod....
pannaguma
pannaguma #11
Jun 14, 2007 at 4:04 PM
good thing cowon mp3 players support drag and drop.;)