What should I use to organize my iTunes music?

Use something better than iTunes.

Try these alternatives to iTunes.

I wish I could, but most of the decent alternatives don’t support the iPod touch

@RocketSquid Really? Didn’t know that.

I organize my itunes with playlists, folders and tags. There is one big folder for albums (alphabetical by artist), inside is a folder for every letter of the alphabet. Then under the appropriate letter folder I have a playlist for each album named “artist – album”. I have a second folder for random songs and partial albums, I just thow all random artists into a playlist by letter, so all random artists starting with the letter “A” are in the same playlist and so on. I also have separate folders for compilations and personal mixes.

I take advantage of the tagging system to improve the search-ability of my library. If you want you can use custom tags to generate playlists but I don’t really bother with that. I just use my tags to instantly find songs about werewolves, murder, God and such not when the internet demands topical song lists. It also comes in handy around Halloween or when you only want to hear songs about dysfunctional relationships (assuming you tagged that). Tagging of course is a massive job. I just tag songs as they come up and don’t worry so much about the completeness of my tagging. I’ve been doing it for some time now though so it’s pretty useful.