How organized is your music?

[ryan]

http://idiot.candt.net/music.txt

How well organized your music?

Or do you organize it at all?

I organize: d:\music\artist\album\01. artist - title.ogg

I rip q6 ogg

If downloaded, I try to find ogg, if not, 192kbps mp3 and up will do.

All tags include. Artist, Title, Book\Album, Tracknumber, and Genre (mostly).

[apollos]

Capitalisation for every new word in a song. ( brackets are not used, but [ are instead.

If have more than 2 songs of an artist then they have their own folder by their name. (unless it is the same song, but the second being a remix) in which case lone songs or songs + their remixes go in the Miscelleneous folder.

Music folder has all my Greek music artists there, because most of my music is Greek, I have an ``English`` Folder (` included so the English folder will appear firsty rather than having to scroll down to E) I have a ``Foreign`` folder too, same rules apply.

All my music is mp3, ripped at 256kbps joint stereo unless it's downloaded, then it can be any bitrate.

All my mp3 icons are in Titles format, to allow me to see not only the song name, but artist and album.

All my tags have the following information:
Title, Artist, Album. All other tags are stripped.

I do not seperate artist folders by album, this would involve more pointless clicking, I feel arranging by album, when I need to does the job, otherwise all their songs are put alphabetically.

Additionally Winamps Media Library can shorten the search if I want to specifically listen to an album. Also amip helps a great deal.

With the above system I have managed to find any mp3 fast, and have kept my music folder as tidy as I would wish.

[matt_69]

depends what u call organised...to me its just that its all in one folder in alphaetical order so i know where it all is.

-matt

[ScorLibran]

Here's a portion of one of my music directory structures, showing the storage format I use. I like to keep it simple and granular. The only change I may make in the future is to add the release year to the beginning of the name of each album directory (and ALBUM tag info), but since I already auto-sort by YEAR in the tag info, it's not really necessary to find what I'm looking for quickly and easily.

My physical storage structure for single artist albums is...

<drive>:\Music\<artist>\<album>\<track> <title>.flac

...where <drive> = either D: or H:

For various artist compilation albums, its...

<drive>:\Music\<album>\<track> <title>.flac

And for soundtracks, it's...

<drive>:\Music\Soundtracks\<album>\<track> <title>.flac

All of my music is...

• Extracted with Exact Audio Copy (v0.95prebeta3)
• Scanned/Repaired with DeGlitch (v0.5b)
• Gain Adjusted with WaveGain (v1.0.3)
• Encoded with FLAC (v1.1.0)
• FLAC tags applied with Tagger (v2.1beta)
• ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags applied with Tag&Rename (v3.0.6)
• M3U Playlists created with PhatNoise Music Manager (v2.30)
• HTML Playlists created with Winamp (v5.02)

Here are my playlists. All tracks are shown with title formatting (each using five of the tags) in Winamp as follows...

[%artist% ~ ][%album% '('%year%')' ~ ][$num(%tracknumber%,2) ~ ]$if2(%title%,%filename%)

I capitalize the first letter of each word in artist names, album names, and track names. I do so much else with my music that I don't have time to worry about the "grammatically-correct" method of capitalization.

I use 6 tags on each track, in both of the tag formats listed above (so a total of 12 tags on each track)...Artist, Album, Year, Track, Title and Genre. I used to use the Comment field as well, when I had music that was encoded with different methods, but since I use the same method for all of it now, there's no need for the Comment field.

[zootm]

H:\mp3\Artist\Album\Number - Name.ogg

ironic to be holding oggs in a folder called "mp3"?

i just couldn't be arsed changing the default

[arturogoga]

d:\My Music\Genre\Artist\Album\#-Name.whatever.

[Cylob]

You win arturogoga.... you sort by genre.

[MidnightViper88]

I have it all in one nice, little folder...

[LollipopLustKil]

C:\DC++\<choice>\Artist\Album\# - Title.mp3

<choice> = Purchased or Downloaded Albums

I rip all my albums at 320 MP3. I tag and organize all my music with MediaMonkey.

If I have a Soundtrack or complation (spelling wrong, I know), then the artist is "Various Artists" with the name of the Album under that.

[psyfive]

How organized is my music?
It's not

[teh Nightwing]

(artist)- songtitle.mp3

[COtto1984]

D:\My Music\Artist - Album\(#) Artist - Track

[Ivory_blue]

new songs, in my folder, old songs in my music...

[Mrs_Mia_Wallace]

I don't have many mp3's but I have my CD's organized: a different CD box (they're actually shoeboxes, don't have the money to buy real CD boxes ) for each genre, then the artists sorted by names and then the Albums in the order of release. Works fine for me.

Mia

[Bilbo Baggins]

I do not organise my music.

[Merlin]

Let's hypothesize for a moment. Let's just say, someone was browsing my music collection. It'd be a lot easier for them if the tracks have a proper name instead of being called Track 01.mp3 or 06-Goat.mp3. Hint fucking Hint, Baggins.

Anyway, all my music is in Workspace/Media/Music.

Singles/one-off tracks are named "Artist - Title.mp3" (renamed en masse by foobar if they were called anything else when downloaded)

Full albums follow this method: "Artist\Artist - Album - 01 - Track Name.mp3".

This way, 'Sort by file path' actually works. Albums appear in the playlist right next to individual tracks that are in the parent folder.

More importantly, anyone who happens to look through my music folder knows what they're looking at.

[Bilbo Baggins]

You are mean.

[Merlin]

cruel as fcuk™ ... but only to you, for three reasons;
1. You make it easy by being a grade-A Kermit-shagging furry (and you're from Birmingham, a.k.a the national cess pit, arsehole of Europe, etc)
2. You called me 'darling' in a text. What choice do I have? :-p
3. You were roundly pwnt by b_h in the shower, in a photo that no-one will ever forget.

...and you have to admit, I have a point about the music tagging.

[Bilbo Baggins]

I cry for you and pray that Jesus saves you. But he is a Man Utd fan...

[Merlin]

You're the one who signed up on a furry website and posted a singles ad! Even in jest, that's pretty tragic.

[SSJ4 Gogitta]

... and so on and so forth.

[Foreigner]

i have about 50 gb of music on my computer and it is organized by genre/artist/album/track_name.mp3
but i always scramble my playlists because i get bored listening to same artist..

[beanboy89]

All of my music is in one folder.

[Sandman2012]

D:\My Documents\My Music\Artist - Album

All my music is ripped from my own collection at vorbis q -8. All tracks are album replay gained and all tags except artist, album, tracknumber and title are removed. All tracknumbers less than 10 have leading zeros.

[henry3k56]

Music Albums

Most Played vs Least Played

Artist or Band
Album Name
Track Number
Song Title
Format


The real cd albums sit nicely in one of those cd racks.

[shizawn]

D:\mp3\Complete Albums\Artist - Album Title\Artist - Tracknumber - Title.mp3

All the single files are just placed in the mp3 directory, though I do have a drum+bass subfolder for all my dnb tunes.

[Velouria]

D:\Artist---Year---Title\Track---Artist---Title---Track.mp3

Spaces and special characters converted to "_".

Organised enough for my liking.

[lostonline]

Artist - Album\Tracknumber - Title.ext (where ext is mp3, ogg or flac)
or for compilations..
Album\Tracknumber - Artist - Title.ext

Also for multidisc albums I sometimes use:
Artist\Album\Tracknumber - Title.ext (with album being something like 'The Best Of CD1')

[edit]Also I tag most tracks with Artist, Album, Title, Tracknumber and sometimes comments[/edit]

[Doktor]

I am using this schematics for albums:
D:\my music\artist\album\artistname - track - trackname.mp3

Nad this for soundtracks\compilations:
D:\my music\album name\track - artistname - trackname.mp3

Plus I have several utility-folders for storing unsorted/untagged/cd-copied stuff.

I use just ID3v1, and every CD I rip is simple 320kbps MP3 Stereo using CDEx with lame encoder.

Everything downloaded is preferrably 192+ kbps MP3/ogg

[msteed_02]

whole albums are in d:\mp3\whole albums\artist\album
random songs or partial albums are in d:\mp3\songs\artist

simple enough

i tried to attach my list from mIRC but it said it's too big
i'ts only 9067 files as of right now... oh well

[horse-fly]

d:\music\artist - title.mp3

everything has only that info, and it is all encoded in 128kbs

[ertmann|CPH]

im trying to organise my music from

"artist - title.mp3"

to

"artist - cd title - track # - track.mp3"

does anyone know a good site for this? im getting tired of googleing for this stuff...

[cooky560]

My music all goes into

D:\Genre\Artist\Album\#-name.mp3

All my Vids (not needed but anyway) goto

D:\Vids\Type\Name.mpg

[lostonline]

Originally posted by Horse-Fly
d:\music\artist - title.mp3

everything has only that info, and it is all encoded in 128kbs

Don't you find that 128kbps mp3s sound bad? I certainly do, I usually use lame --alt preset standard

[Sandman2012]

Originally posted by ertmann|CPH
im trying to organise my music from

"artist - title.mp3"

to

"artist - cd title - track # - track.mp3"

does anyone know a good site for this? im getting tired of googleing for this stuff...

http://www.allmusic.com/

A great resource for music. foobar2000 also has a plugin that'll tag your media files after looking them up on freeDB, then you can use the mastager to rename them how you like. Very useful.

[Vie]

\dev\mnt\winD\music

[horse-fly]

Originally posted by lostonline
Don't you find that 128kbps mp3s sound bad? I certainly do, I usually use lame --alt preset standard

nope, it is fine enough for me

[henry3k56]

I'd back that up on 128kbps

If they're encoded on your computer, they will sound well. From the internet, such as I've previewed many songs before on MP3.com (before December), there was a tinny noise.

[ryan]

A great resource for music. foobar2000 also has a plugin that'll tag your media files after looking them up on freeDB, then you can use the mastager to rename them how you like. Very useful.

Foobar masstagger == pwn

[lostonline]

Originally posted by henry3k56
I'd back that up on 128kbps

If they're encoded on your computer, they will sound well. From the internet, such as I've previewed many songs before on MP3.com (before December), there was a tinny noise.

True, I'd find them to be ok on my crappy computer speakers but on my iRiver player either with headphones or output through my hi-fi I think the sounds quality is poor with 128kbps