Oh sure, leave it to Merlin to come up with a more practical approach.

I don’t expect most people could be as cavalier toward deep-sixing all this music as I was, and your idea of having a “working” library plus a hidden crate somewhere else makes sense. But I think that might be a second step, after you’ve done a good once through to weed out the crap.

We probably all have enough disk space that we can afford to leave some questionable items in play (as I type this listening to an impulse buy Beyonce single), but I’m guessing we still have too much stuff we know is just taking up room. I wish iTunes had some built-in “archiving” functionality to help, say, for tucking away the holiday music out of season, or putting old movies on the shelf.