La Vida. Let's talk music how we store and listen to music has shifted and changed quite a bit over the past decade as new technology has developed and the music industry has lost battle after battle to protect the status quo? Our music collections have undergone a fair amount of movement. We have shifted from Cds to ipods to the cloud. And more recently to music streaming services like Spotify and SoundCloud. Today, it's becoming less and less common to own your music collection. The way our parents did technology is not static. So how we store and listen to music will continue to shift and evolve. What's a music fan to do in this section? We're going to talk about music storage and talk through our best practice recommendations as to how we access and listen to music. We'll also provide a few recommendations for those who hold larger or even professional grade music collections. As usual, we want to start out by identifying our one home for our music collection and then migrating or ...

consolidating old files to this new home. Let's begin by differentiating between the everyday music listener and the music aficionado are professional and talking about music storage solutions for each of these. Why does this matter? Because the needs of these different music listeners are different and we want to make sure we find the right home for your music. The everyday music listener is someone who enjoys music and enjoys having access to their music collection on multiple devices but doesn't use this music professionally. Most of us fall into this category. We may listen to a few 100 songs in rotation and definitely have our favorite playlists and we like hearing about new songs. So how does the everyday music listener keep their music files organized? If you're an everyday music listener, our recommendation is actually to forget about music files and music storage altogether and instead think about music access. Why? Well most of us have pretty simple music needs. We want to be able to listen to pretty much any song anywhere. Save and share playlists and also exploring music. A digital music streaming service like Spotify or Apple music is going to cover all of these needs and more. Some people have even concluded that holding music files is now obsolete and they've decided to delete all of their old music files after transferring to a streaming service, if you decide to go with Spotify apple music or another music streaming platform for your music home. We recommend a few steps. First set up an account with the music streaming platform of your choice. Next schedule some time to migrate songs from your old music collection to this central platform. This will take a bit of time but we'll make sure your key music needs are met. A quick way to get started is by first creating a few playlist of your favorite songs. Last look for any legacy music files and migrate them to your new central platform, you can look through old playlists on other platforms or your old digital music collection. If you still have cds, you can collect all of them and check for your favorite songs. I just want to clarify one thing. If you go with this approach, when we talk about migrating, we don't mean actually moving the digital file, but rather changing its home from a digital file. You keep to a digital file that you access via your new music account. You'll make this move by searching for the song or album on Spotify and then adding it to a playlist. It may seem a bit weird at first, but the beauty of an applique Spotify is that you're going to be able to find almost every song in your existing collection. Yes, even those super obscure ones in different languages. You can also enable Spotify or apple music algorithmic tools to help you discover new music based on your current listening preferences. Another benefit of a music app is that you no longer need to spend time editing file names or organizing your files, saving you tons of time. And what about your old music collection on Itunes or apple music? Well, that's ultimately up to you. Like we said, some people may choose to delete old files after shifting to a music streaming service, most everyday listeners will find it easier to just totally shift to a Spotify premium model with offline mode. However, not everyone will want to move to Spotify or apple music or may want to listen to some music that isn't available there. For whatever reason, you may end up choosing to stick with maintaining a music collection on Itunes, apple music or another music library platform here. You'll also have the ability to edit the metadata of your files, things like singer song name, album Year etcetera. A word of caution here. You can still have an organized music collection without spending hours perfecting your metadata. Also, there are now a ton of apps out there that can support you in your music metadata endeavors. By the way, if you have a big stack of C. D. S at the end of this process, you can even try and sell them on a resale site like declutter dot com. If some of your music isn't available on Spotify or apple music, you also have the option of actually setting up Spotify or apple music to play your local files. This is something of an exception to the one home policy but similar to how you can use one interface to check multiple calendars or email accounts. So again, just take a few minutes now to select a single home such as Itunes or Spotify for this collection, you'll basically follow the same steps of going on a music scavenger hunt. Moving all of your files to this single home only. Now you will actually be migrating your music files or viewing your local files through the central interface. The music aficionado is a more serious music listener. This is someone who takes pride in their music collection and may have upwards of 10,000 or 20,000 songs in their collection. They often consider music to be part of their identity. Some music aficionados may also fall into the category of music professionals such as DJs or sound editors. For the music aficionado, there's currently no one size fits all solution for keeping your music organized. Most music professionals will use a variety of tools to store, edit and interface with our music and we don't need to go over that here. But if you do have a large music collection and it's important to you, we do want to emphasize that you should have a secure backup system for your music collection were mentioning this because so many music aficionados use a hard drive to back up their music if you're using a hard drive, we do recommend a second cloud based backup system for extra protection such as back blaze, Dropbox and Apple's time machine are other common choices. Isn't the whole point of a hard drive that it's a secure way to store files. Yes, but unfortunately hard drives don't last forever. In fact, back blaze publishes an official list of hard drive models and their failure rates while the rates are low typically 0 to 1.5%. We just don't want you to be in that 1%. So take a few minutes now and sign up for a second level of protection. And if you're already using a music service like Itunes, you don't need to worry about the second level protection. Just take a minute to double check under settings that your device backup is enabled and that your music is really being sync to the cloud. For total digital peace of mind. You're going to want to make sure that your music collection is centralized and secure regardless of if you're a casual everyday music listener or seriously dedicated to your music collection, you can take a few quick steps to secure your music. Some of you may now be considering or have already made the move to an applique Spotify for total music access rather than actually collecting digital music files at the end of the day only. You know what music storage or access option works best for you. Each of us has our own taste preferences and music listening habits. But one thing is certain now that you've taken the time to think through how you store and access your music you can enjoy from another level of digital com

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This class is well organized and flows well. There is one thing I do NOT like is the reference to another class in the Syllabus: "Kill The Chaos of Information Overload with Evernote Webinar" The webinar has only one good tip, use Tabs in Evernote. The webinar hypes more tips if you buy the course by Charles Bird. I bought the course for $197 which was listed as a discount from a much higher price. The course is poorly assembled, out of date, and hardly worth more than a few dollars. It assembled with a bunch of short videos, each video starts after he is talking and ends before he is finished. Evernote Scanner is no longer made and Evernote no longer supports the software.

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What is Digital Overwhelm

Why Does It Actually Matter

The Alternative - Digital Peace of Mind

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The Importance of Robust Systems

The Power of “The Cloud”

Leveraging Automation To Reduce Friction

Reestablishing A Healthy Relationship With Your Technology

Digital Minimalism - The #1 Strategy To Achieve Order

What Intuitive Organizational Type Are You

What To Do When “Life Happens”

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Wrangling All Of Your Email Accounts

Inbox vs. Archive - Achieving Inbox Freedom

The Machete - Cutting Down Your Overloaded Inbox

The Scalpel - Strategically Cutting Down The Rest Of Your Inbox

Get A Grip On Your Subscriptions

Starting Fresh - Creating Your Own Structure

What Happens Next - Beginner’s Inbox Organization

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Enabling Back-Ups

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Choosing & Using A “To-Do” List

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Syncing and Organizing Documents

Downloads Folder

Conquering Your Contacts List

Securely & Safely Storing Passwords

Scan It, Send It

Managing Legacy File Storage

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Saving Sites

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