Needs tips for organsing a music library with the help of Winamp

[Aminifu]

The file storage scheme is very important if you use external image files for album cover art (and/or you use file formats that don't support tags). If you use formats that support tags, then you can embed artwork in each file and the storage scheme doesn't matter as much (if you use Winamp to find and present your media). If you look for stuff manually, then a consistent logical storage scheme is helpful.

The ID3 tagging scheme is used by the mp3 and wavepack formats (version 2.3 is most common, but 2.4 is coming on). The vorbis tagging scheme is used by the flac format. Winamp is able to read and write both of these tagging schemes and a few others. The important thing is to use whatever scheme correctly.

[MrSinatra]

Originally Posted by Aminifu

The file storage scheme is very important if you use external image files for album cover art (and/or you use file formats that don't support tags). If you use formats that support tags, then you can embed artwork in each file and the storage scheme doesn't matter as much (if you use Winamp to find and present your media). If you look for stuff manually, then a consistent logical storage scheme is helpful.

not accurate. depending on your folder structure, you can create smartviews based on it, so you can create some very dynamic results sets that are not possible just with tags.

for instance, I use broad genres in the folder structure, which means a file can be found under two distinct genres via one query. I also use folder structure to delineate lossy from lossless, the person or source of the files origins, newly ripped from vetted files, etc... and smartviews allow me to really get a lot out of categorization, dynamically, that I could not get out of tagging alone.

Originally Posted by Aminifu

The ID3 tagging scheme is used by the mp3 and wavepack formats (version 2.3 is most common, but 2.4 is coming on). The vorbis tagging scheme is used by the flac format. Winamp is able to read and write both of these tagging schemes and a few others. The important thing is to use whatever scheme correctly.

2.4 is not coming on, it died; its like v1 tags, supported only reluctantly and half heartedly, and not anything close to universally or fully. in fact, v1 tags are much better supported than 2.4, but 2.3 is far and away the king.