[oscott]

I agree that the USB ports are a “miss” but the hard drive does allow you you to set up folders. I put my wife’s favorite CDs on a USB and uploaded them by Artist, subfiled by album and of course song. It works pretty well

 

[oscott]

I couldn't figure out how to do it, can you explain please?

I saved the .mp3 files in the artist folder I specified on the desktop ( i.e. imagine dragons). I ripped the CD to the specific artist Folder- it created a folder for the album name and the individual songs within that album folder. I then uploaded to the hard drive. After upload, the hard drive menu has a "folder" selection option- its the bottom selection, which breaks out each artist . If you touch the artist, the albums appear and if you touch the specific album, the tracks appear. it works much like the directory on a windows computer. For what it's worth, I found it easier to do this on my Wife's PC as my Mac was a pain working through i tunes, so I did have to rip each CD to accomplish this. it would have been much better to have pulled from iTunes, but that wasn't happening.

 

[oscott]

Don,
Your systematic music attack rocked. My issue was I had to figure out which songs in my I tunes library I purchased and not downloaded using my Apple Music subscription. Also had download my purchased amazon music. Therefore, I did what you suggested and created a folder on my desk top labeled music and then created sub folders with musician and then added their songs to specific folder. Luckily, I do not have an extensive song collection so only took about 2 hours but was therapeutic to get organized and listen to my fun tunes. Then my little guy organized by artist perfectly! Thanks for the tip so helpful!
Pdog

Glad to Help. That’s what we’re all here for, right ?