iPod owners, please help...

[Tapomay]

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]

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]

try anapod instead of stupid suckin itunes

 

[ambandla]

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]

Thanks for your suggestions mates...

 

[iMav]

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]

use mediamonkey to help efficiently manage metadata.

 

[aditya.shevade]

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]

You asked me this question in a private message and this is what I answered:

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]

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]

good thing cowon mp3 players support drag and drop.