[AlexClips]

Why do people manually sort their music? Play list and or let the player organise things with the tags, editing only as needed (sometimes I'll edit artist when it a co-op to match the album artist).

It's about control

and I don't trust any program to organize it efficiently...because they don't, **especially iTunes...POS.

Now I don't have to deal with that crapfest since I got my Zune finally...[thumbup]

[sherrferris]

Just started sorting mines out, here's a picture.

Ignore the 50 Cent CD by the way, it's there purely for uploading purposes.

[AlexClips]

now how do name each track?

[sherrferris]

now how do name each track?

Like so.

[bMc8F9ZI]

Like so...

[sherrferris]

Stop copying my wording..[rofl]

[bMc8F9ZI]

My B.

I will stop copying... your... wording?

[irridgita]

I need to figure out how to do mine, since I'm tired of the mess I'e had in my music folder until now.
I've already tagged everything properly, but no I need to figure out what to do with indidual folders.
Should I create a separate folder for each artists and keep this artists albums in that folder, or simply create a folder for each album and keep them all in one directory?

[Z3s9vQZj]

i have folders for the artist then subfolders for each album.

[AngelinaTheElf]

D:\Music
D:\Music\Artist
D:\Music\Artist\Album
D:\Music\Artist\Album\(named)Artist - Album - Song Number - Song Name
________
volcano vaporizer

[Alkanyadela]

by date of release.. or in that kind of mind..

[irridgita]

D:\Music
D:\Music\Artist
D:\Music\Artist\Album
D:\Music\Artist\Album\(named)Artist - Album - Song Number - Song Name

Yeah, that's what I'm doing now.

[FourEsters]

All mp3s in one folder then multiple folders spanned across hard drives and other (sometimes non-music related) subfolders

Nothing beats opening a folder and finding some music you haven't heard in a while.

[Derrida]

I have mine the same as nacho. I don't download songs from itunes or whatever so I don't have random single songs from one artist. When I rip an album I just put it in the correct folder for the artist. Easy.

[animilius]

Music / Genre / Album or Vinyl / Album/CD 1 or CD2 / Tracks

[irridgita]

I have mine the same as nacho. I don't download songs from itunes or whatever so I don't have random single songs from one artist. When I rip an album I just put it in the correct folder for the artist. Easy.

Rip.
That's nice.

[doolarsva]

E:\Music\English\Bon Jovi\bonjovi001.mp3
E:\Music\English\Bon Jovi\bonjovi002.mp3

I find putting album in is troublesome, and many duplicated songs in each album.

[RilmAlime67]

Music -> Genre -> Artist-Title

I don't keep whole albums, just the songs I like.

[AlexClips]

First it matters what software you use to rip: some have more options than others when it comes to tag information. I use dbPowerAMP CD Ripper.

Because of dBPowerAMP and/or of Vista, you can sort by artist name which is pulled from the ID3 tag info. So there is no need to have it in the filename, and thus makes it easier to locate specific music.

For albums with one album artist:

M:\Music\Electronica\Armin van Buuren\A State of Trance 2006 [Disc 1 of 2]\01.Halcyon.flac


For multiple-disc albums with more than one album artist (a compilation)

M:\Music\Electronica\The Essential TRANCE Collection\Blue Amazon - Disc 1 of 6\01.Roaches.flac


I use folders to sort my music. This way filenames are short and easy to manage when looking through them as a list. I always use tag information: and I always have them embedded.

[JeorgeNoxeref]

D:\Music\*drop everything here*

..then arrange em later through playlists...
i like to reduce folder digging as much as possible