Posted by Charles Russell on 10/14/06 17:51

Sla#s wrote:
> somebody wrote:
>> I have hundreds of .mp3 files sorted in directories which
>> correspond to the artist, then album, like those listed
>> below. If I get an 8 GB iPod Nano, will I be able to copy
>> the .mp3 files to the mp3 player? I'm guessing the software
>> that comes with it will do this?
>
> Yes.
> But if you think it will organise the music as you have - no it won't.
> It has a much better system.

That is a matter of opinion.

> But you don't have to change yours.
> You will then be able to list your music by artist or album or year or
> genre, when last played, length, rating etc... it has 28 different ways to
> do it.

But you will have to put all that stuff into the ID3 tag for each file.
Google for ID3 tag editors. Some of them can automatically copy your
directories and filename into selected fields of the ID3 tag.

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