I quite obsessed about organizing my files in a precise and clear directory structure. This also applies for my tunes. But the directory structure is a tree, and a file is physically contained by one directory at a time (unless you use links, this is a feature of NTFS that is hidden in Windows, btw). emoticon For that reason, if you have a directory for each music genre, every song can only have ONE genre… Wouldn’t it be good to classify by "moods" instead of "genres", allowing a tune to be suitable for multiple moods? emoticon

After spending some time thinking about crazy ingenious solutions to make that possible (e.g. programming yet another music management program) emoticon, I finally realized that what I actually wanted to do was playlists! The only problem is that I want to "label my tunes with moods", like I do in Gmail; and editing a text file (i.e. the playlist) is not very convenient…

And guess what? The solution is both simple and elegant: use a music manager that allows playlist management by drag&drop! emoticon I chose musikCube because it’s lightweight, efficient and free. I created a few "mood" playlists in the sidebar: fresh, sad, sunday morning, hardcore, and so on… Then I just drag&drop my tunes in the corresponding playlists. Finally, I can play any playlist after randomizing its order ("shuffle" can repeat some songs), according to my mood. Easy! emoticon Moreover, a great feature of musikCube is to move or copy the files contained in a playlist to another directory, making it possible to go back to a good old directory tree structure, usefull if a friend of yours like your "sad" tunes collection for example.