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Article: What a good sort! Is your hard drive more MP3 than pc? PC Eric Dahl shows how you can keep your burgeoning music collection under control.(HERE'S HOW: AUDIO)(Column)
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- Australian PC World
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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I've spent a lot of time cleaning up my MP3 collection recently, and it's come to remind me of a scene in Nick Hornby's novel "High Fidelity". Rob, the obsessive music fan narrating the story, has just been dumped by his girlfriend. He proceeds to regain some control over one aspect of his life the only way he knows how: he reorganises his record collection. This is no typical reorganisation, mind you. Rob arranges his records by the date he bought them--a sort of personal music fandom biography.
Of course, now that music's gone digital that "Great Reorganisation" can be done in one click of the date-added tab. Sorting by genre, release year, artist name, or even ...