Organising classical music

[kilucas]

I hold copies of my ripped classical CDs as MP3s. Generally I have one MP3 for each movement of a piece so a typical symphony comprises 4 separate mp3s.

I'm holding the mp3s in a simple folder hierarchy of CD within composer (and just use a "compilations" folder to manage CDs with pieces by more than one composer).

I can therefore use Winamp's Add button to load all MP3s (movements or single-movement pieces) from a CD or all those by a given composer. Or even all classical music. But if I shuffle them then the movements of a symphony for example become detached whereas I'd like to be able to shuffle symphones (sets of 4 MP3s) as a whole.

I wondered if I should be using playlists to keep movements together and realised that I wasn't sure how best to organise playlists for classical music. For example, is there any merit in storing playlists within the CD or composer folders or am I better off storing all playlists in a separate folder structure entirely?

Is any one type of playlist better than the others for use with classical music and to help solve this issue of keeping movements together?

And I make limited use of Shoutcast (and MP3toolbox to an even more limited extent). Would that affect the organisational choices I might make with classical music perhaps?

If anyone has any guidance on organisation of classical music for use in Winamp and Shoutcast, I'd be very interested to hear.

Thanks

Kevin