How do you have your iTunes library organised?

I'm about to give up using playlists for my library because i've got too much stuff which is just unclassifiable, like the new Squarepusher album for example. What are your ideas?

smart playlists are where it's at:

- 1 GB of most played
- Newest favorites (4 months old, playcount above X)
- Old Favorites (playount above X, last played over 6 months ago)

Go nuts.

Yeah i've got a a few SmartPlaylists with those criteria, but they're not much use for finding a specific set of albums that you might want to hear at a certain time.

Playlists really don't organize your music. A playlist, smart or otherwise, displays music using existing meta data and preference criteria.

Populating genres, grouping, year, PBM, etc. and then using those data for smart playlists is the key to a well "organized" iTunes library.

I use Jaikoz Audio Tagger (http://www.jthink.net/jaikoz/jsp/startup.jsp) to help populate the tags. It works great and integrates with MusicBrainz audio id service.

If you have a Mac, try Tangerine. http://www.potionfactory.com/tangerine/. It makes playlists based-on the BPM of your music.

When you say 'PBM', I guess you mean BPM, right?

Yeah, fat-fingered that one. BPM - Beats Per Minute