# I just realized Artists Greatest Hits Albums can be created by my Mp3 player. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 18, 2012, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-artists-greatest-hits-albums-can-be-created-by-my-mp3-player/613251 "2012-02-18T16:48:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-artists-greatest-hits-albums-can-be-created-by-my-mp3-player/613251/1 "2012-02-18T16:48:47Z")
I finally got around to setting up my Mp3 tags for my Time Life Series collections and putting them on my player. I’ve got five different sets covering the 50’s,60’s,70’s,80’s and 90’s. Each Time Life Set has about 8 to 12 cd’s. About 50 cd’s in the various collections. Just Discovered the player _will play all the songs_ if I click the Artist name. They may be scattered all over the various Time Life Collections and they play seamlessly just like a Greatest Hits Album for that artist. That makes these Time Life Sets even better. Back when I played the CD’s I never knew for sure where a song was. You’d have to read a dozen jewel cases to find it. I love discovering new hit songs that I never heard before. The classic hit radio stations only play the same songs over and over. One of my favorite rare hits (to me) is a Brit Import series called Time To Remember 1960, 1961 thru 1970. A lot of British acts that never played much here in the US. Great songs that are brand new to me. > **[Amazon.com: Time to Remember 1963: CDs & Vinyl](https://www.amazon.com/Time-Remember-1963-Greeting-Cards/dp/B000007Z8Y)** > > Amazon.com: Time to Remember 1963: CDs & Vinyl ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-artists-greatest-hits-albums-can-be-created-by-my-mp3-player/613251/2 "2012-02-18T17:02:00Z")
Does anyone know what will happen when there are duplicate songs on the mp3 player? _Let It Be_ may be in three different Time Life Collections and in my Beatles CD. 4 occurrences on the player Each file would be in its own folder and unique. The Mp3 tag wouldn’t be unique. The Tag will be Let It Be. How will the player handle it? Will it try and play it 4 times? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![KneeSid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dec6dc/32.png) [@KneeSid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneeSid)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-artists-greatest-hits-albums-can-be-created-by-my-mp3-player/613251/3 "2012-02-18T17:05:48Z")
My mp3 players including the iPod, play duplicate songs. They’ll put them in some order. [Try the free mp3tag](http://www.mp3tag.de/en/) You can make your own tags, play by type of music, well just go to town and have fun. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-artists-greatest-hits-albums-can-be-created-by-my-mp3-player/613251/4 "2012-02-18T17:15:50Z")
I wish now that I had started ripping my cd’s a few years earlier. Its a lot of work but very rewarding. I got pretty excited this morning when I realized the player could generate a artists hits playlist from all the cd’s that were loaded. That’s awesome. I saved ripping my Time Life collections for last because its a daunting project. Especially checking and fixing the tags before loading the music on the mp3 player. ---
**Author:** ![KneeSid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dec6dc/32.png) [@KneeSid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneeSid)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-artists-greatest-hits-albums-can-be-created-by-my-mp3-player/613251/5 "2012-02-18T17:19:51Z")
You should rip your CDs to a lossless format. With hard drives being cheap, you can then make back ups and store your CDs as a physical back up. Then when you want to put a song on your mp3 player just use a program like Foobar (again free) to convert your lossless to mp3