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doktorLucifer
United States855 Posts
My music directory is largely organized into artist folders, with albums inside, but this totally falls apart if an album is by more than one artist. Sure, I can put such albums into the root of the music folder.. but it feels out of place. I use the winamp media library to actually load my albums, but I'm slightly neurotic about how my music is organized anyway. Suggestions? o_o | ||
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Amnesia
United States3818 Posts
I have a folder called "Albums" where all the stuff I download go in there. It's tagged by Artist Name - Album - Year. I also have a folder called "Singles" with subfolders A-Z, 0-9 and organize it from there. I love organizing music, and I did all of this manually. Took me forever, but feels good. | ||
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wok
United States504 Posts
stuff sorted by albums, some by artists, some isolated by song name. Some of my tracks are logically labeled mp3s, others are confusingly named track-number+gibberish. Once you guys find an awesome solution, I'd be glad to use it. | ||
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m4gdelen4
United States416 Posts
i use itunes though, so i have no idea about the software you are using. | ||
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CursOr
United States6335 Posts
IF I had more though, I might organize it by genre. I don't think I could sort through it any other way, because sometimes you want to listen to a certain type over another. Make different folders for types, IMO. | ||
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FragKrag
United States11552 Posts
My stuff is pretty unorganized though. My music folder is a complete mess ;_; | ||
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doktorLucifer
United States855 Posts
Some albums are also clustered in folders by label. -_- | ||
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ccou
United States681 Posts
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Chau
Canada408 Posts
I'm a bit of a messy person. | ||
NeverGG
United Kingdom5399 Posts
Epik High - Fan. | ||
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LeperKahn
Romania1840 Posts
On September 17 2009 11:53 NeverGG wrote: I organize the one on my mp3 by artist. I'm really anal about capitalising the names and titles of the songs so they show up nicely on the display. I am all about this. I kinda freak out when things aren't capitalized correctly. | ||
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Ecael
United States6703 Posts
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Jonoman92
United States9103 Posts
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movmou
United States142 Posts
 But either way I'm also very anal about my music organization. I don't know what music player you use, but I use iTunes and I simply organize all my music by folder. Artist --> Album --> Songs in there. iTunes seems to auto correct most of them, but for ones that aren't there is a problem called "TuneUp" I've used which auto organizes things for you. I think it only works on iTunes but I wouldn't be surprised if there are similar programs (for free) out there that do this for any music player.Anyways, best of luck! | ||
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Spinfusor
Australia410 Posts
\SERIES\Great Conductors of the 20th Century\Vol. 40 - Wilhelm Furtwangler\CD 1\ \COMPOSER\Dvorak\Talich, Maxian, Rostropovich - Piano Concerto, Cello Concerto\ \PERFORMER\Conductors\Rosbaud\The Complete Recordings on DG\CD 5 - Berg, 3 Pieces; Webern, 6 Pieces; Stravinsky, Agon\ With multiple main artists that absolutely don't fit: \PERFORMER\Soloists\Hassid & Neveu\The First Recordings of Ginette Neveu; The Complete Recordings of Josef Hassid\ foobar's filter feature works decently here. | ||
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doktorLucifer
United States855 Posts
"Series takes highest priority, followed by composer," does that mean if there is no discernible series name, you just ignore, and label the root directory with the composer name? @NeverGG, I used to do this manually. Are you doing it manually too? o_o Try MP3tag, then you can just drag and drop directories into it, then have it auto-capitalize/etc. Unless you specifically modify the capitalization rules, it'll also capitalize insignificant words too. -_- | ||
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Saddened Izzy
United States198 Posts
I have maybe like 2 gigs of music with the newest edition being the CD from the musical Wicked. I just organize it by Artist don't bother with anything else throw them all into one pile because then i never remember which album had which song. Not like I have to deal with alot of songs i only rip the ones i like the biggest pile would be like from RHCP or The Distillers | ||
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Kennelie
United States2296 Posts
Organizing my music is like the only thing I can sit for an hour or so doing and actually feel good about doing it. I have a couple of friends with more then 150+ gigs each and omfg their collection of music is half organized and other half a complete mess. I sometimes go thru their inventory and cringe thinking that some may be duplicates. | ||
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NeverGG
United Kingdom5399 Posts
On September 17 2009 13:47 Thesecretaznman wrote: Spinfusor, that's actually helpful, since I have no idea how to even begin with classify classical/orchestral music. "Series takes highest priority, followed by composer," does that mean if there is no discernible series name, you just ignore, and label the root directory with the composer name? @NeverGG, I used to do this manually. Are you doing it manually too? o_o Try MP3tag, then you can just drag and drop directories into it, then have it auto-capitalize/etc. Unless you specifically modify the capitalization rules, it'll also capitalize insignificant words too. -_- Thanks for the tip - I do it manually right now because my mp3 is new so there's hardly any msic on it, but once I get going then it'll be useful to be able to do it en masse. | ||
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Jawa~
United States291 Posts
I hate when I have albums with the tracks sorted alphabetically, ruins the album experience! I also have a folder where all my P2P downloads go before I sort them. It's kind of a rotating "new music" folder | ||
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Comeh
United States18918 Posts
The files, however, are scattered randomly throughout my computer. | ||
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Ecael
United States6703 Posts
On September 17 2009 14:22 Jawa~ wrote: I have 100ish GB, I have it all organized by Artist / then whatever the album folder is. I am not anal about sorting, but very anal about having things in the album sorted by the correct track number. I hate when I have albums with the tracks sorted alphabetically, ruins the album experience! I also have a folder where all my P2P downloads go before I sort them. It's kind of a rotating "new music" folder I have one too, a disaster in itself, can't keep speed of listening and filtering out crap to be nearly on par to download. | ||
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Wala.Revolution
7582 Posts
I am quite OCD about my organization so I organize both by tagging and manually filepath. Problem is some classical pieces have ridiculous long names and I have to use '...' at end to denote that it was cut short. Also I find it hard that windows keep re-ordering music alphabetically because I don't want to put #. in front even though I uncheck 'by name' and 'auto-arrange'. Took me hours -_- | ||
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intruding
157 Posts
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probu
Canada36 Posts
1. Remove the songs you don't actually listen to. So many people keep every song they get their hands on. If you only really listen to a couple songs from a particular album, store the rest elsewhere. You don't have to delete it (some people are virtual pack rats) but you can archive it away from your more common files. 2. Use archival software like iTunes (if you have an ipod/iphone) or Foobar (if you don't have an ipod/iphone) that allows you to tag any bit of song information, from duration to album or genre, and fill in as much information as possible. iTunes even has a section for comments about a particular song/group of songs, which can later be used as search criteria. I'll tag songs with the time I'd play them, like "party" or "studying" or "dinner music" so I can sort them by those keywords later. When you use a software organizer you can sort and search for your music in any way you want. One drawback to large music libraries is loading time, for which you can separate your music into a broad category, perhaps by genre, in folders on, say, an external hard drive. Without organizing software you can still keep your songs ordered, but access becomes much more difficult when you can't search/sort/group with a single click. | ||
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Meta
United States6225 Posts
 It's actually pretty annoying. | ||
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doktorLucifer
United States855 Posts
How reliable are the playcount statistics in foobar? This might sound silly, since we're talking about computers, but I've found that my various playlists/playcount stats/song ratings don't store correctly.. or in a weird way on Winamp. Winamp also has my main 120GB of music indexed in the library, but it doesn't store "most played" information correctly (or any information correctly, for that matter. ~_~) | ||
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Wala.Revolution
7582 Posts
On September 17 2009 15:38 Meta wrote: I had a single folder holding over 2000+ songs. Nowadays when I try to access it, explorer.exe stops responding. So I had to make a new folder It's actually pretty annoying. What is considered a folder? Like a folder in desktop? Does that mean you need to seperate music into more folder in desktop? | ||
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intruding
157 Posts
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doktorLucifer
United States855 Posts
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Jibba
United States22883 Posts
Everything else will be perfectly the same as listed above. It'll scan your hard drive when it firsts installs and create a database of everything that can be reordered/tagged/etc. It's not as lightweight as Foobar, but it doesn't really need to be unless you're running XP with 1GB of ram or something. It's still substantially lighter than WMP/iTunes. | ||
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Espers
United Kingdom606 Posts
Winamp can do pretty much every point you've mentioned, why are you so attached to foobar? :o I really love the smart view of Winamp too, not many people use it because it requires some fornula learning, but I can have a whole different section for compilations, so my normal section (or view) isn't cluttered with 1 song artists. Good cause I have a lot of compilation albums :p | ||
GTR
51454 Posts
i don't really care about 'memory hogging' and all of that crap now since i got my new laptop. | ||
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Mah Buckit!
Finland474 Posts
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doktorLucifer
United States855 Posts
On September 17 2009 16:43 Mah Buckit! wrote: Wow OP you must have a shitload of cds around. Yea, man. *Shifty-eyed* *Eyes explode.* I will continue using WA until/if I decide to go use foobar only. It has views based on folder structure/artist/album etc, in a place that actually encourages switching around based on what you're looking for/how you want to browse around for, which is actually nice, since all the shit in my main folder is actually pretty well-organized. Artist/album view fails me, since 50% of my stuff consists of random mutliple-artist black-metal/trancecore compilations ~_~ On September 17 2009 16:30 Espers wrote: @intruding Winamp can do pretty much every point you've mentioned, why are you so attached to foobar? :o I really love the smart view of Winamp too, not many people use it because it requires some fornula learning, but I can have a whole different section for compilations, so my normal section (or view) isn't cluttered with 1 song artists. Good cause I have a lot of compilation albums :p Waaaiiit... so that "compilation" view only shows compilations? o_o | ||
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intruding
157 Posts
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Velr
Switzerland10716 Posts
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FaCE_1
Canada6172 Posts
| |--------------->CD pretty simple | ||
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NovaTheFeared
United States7222 Posts
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Spinfusor
Australia410 Posts
On September 17 2009 13:47 Thesecretaznman wrote: "Series takes highest priority, followed by composer," does that mean if there is no discernible series name, you just ignore, and label the root directory with the composer name? Yeah, if there isn't an appropriate series, throw it under composer, or if still not, performer. I use it pretty tightly so series is the smallest section I have. I can divide it into 3 classes: a) Collections that would require excessive folder creation (e.g. EMI's Great Conductors series with 40 two CD sets of different conductors) and look neater stored together. b) Collections like 10 random opera highlights, 11 Great Violin Concertos etc which would otherwise be a pain/impossible to sort. c) Unsortable discs, the only one at present being a disc of 3 different works, by 3 different composers, played by 3 different performers. | ||
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Espers
United Kingdom606 Posts
On September 17 2009 16:56 intruding wrote: I can't think of 1 thing that Winamp does better than Foobar. Foobar does everything that Winamp does, but better. and Foobar does a million thing that Winamp can't do. + Winamp is atrocious when dealing with reasonably large databases. Mediamonkey; it's pretty good.. but it deals with video, audio, pictures etc.. whereas Foobar is strictly audio. Mediamonkey is lightyears away from Foobar in the audio department though. Foobar's interface is 100x harder and less intuive than winamps in customising. It's just so much easier, I mean if you look at comparisons you'll read the same. I think foobar's better if you actually spend the time to learn how to customise it, but that's quite a bit of time. Winamp's easier :D On September 17 2009 16:53 Thesecretaznman wrote: Waaaiiit... so that "compilation" view only shows compilations? o_o Yes? | ||
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Mutaahh
Netherlands859 Posts
234 GB music Hardstyle - 166 gb Sorted by these maps Vinyl - 41gb Album - 64 gb Single tracks - 4 gb Livesets - 40 gb Vinyl and livesets is sorted on year in maps Jump - 10 gb (like hardstyle) Hardcore - 20 gb (like hardstyle) All other stuff Pop/house/collections - 40 gb - Queen collection - Top 2000 (best songs all time) - Top 500 by ID-T (Dance mostly) - Collection of Dutch artist - Party music (crazy music which is perfect when your drunk ^^) And thats a collection i started like 5 years ago. And I my playlist atm (with ALL tracks) is 21000+ tracks Allot dupes, but i don't care ^^ oh and i use winamp only (search function is perfect for such huge tracklists) | ||
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Probe.
United States877 Posts
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doktorLucifer
United States855 Posts
On September 17 2009 23:59 Espers wrote: Foobar's interface is 100x harder and less intuive than winamps in customising. It's just so much easier, I mean if you look at comparisons you'll read the same. I think foobar's better if you actually spend the time to learn how to customise it, but that's quite a bit of time. Winamp's easier :D Yes? I think i was referring to multi-artist compilations (is that what a compilation usually is?) I didn't know there was a way to get winamp to show only albums with a single artist or only albums with multiple artists. | ||
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FirstBorn
Romania3955 Posts
I like to believe in the principe that order is for idiots and only geniuses can handle chaos. | ||
Carnac
Germany / USA16648 Posts
At least that's how everything should be and much of it is, but I'm too lazy to go through it again. I also have another huge folder, which is basically a copy of my friend's music collection, I never get around to sorting it properly into my own collection (so there's quite a lot of stuff I have twice t_t). | ||
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PobTheCad
Australia893 Posts
i tried foobar2000 and found it ugly and slow , winamp for me.the pitch plugin is a lifesaver as well for my electronica collection. i organize by genre , i have around 20 gig of stuff. can anyone recommend me some harder acid stuff? 165+ bpm | ||
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hymn
Bulgaria832 Posts
I I-> metal I I->others Metal: I I-> Avantasia I I-> CD1 I-> CD2 I-> The Scarecrow etc Metal folder is sorted in alphabetical order by artist name. There are some songs out of folders because they are only one song per artist and I don't want to make 50 or so more folders just to put one song in them. In the artist folder albums are sorted by the year of their release. I also sort by a root band. Like in my Deep Purple folder there are songs and albums of Deep Purple, the members' albums, Rainbow, Whitesnake and Ronnie James Dio. Deep Purple I I-> DP I-> Rainbow I-> Blackmore's night I-> Whitesnake I-> solo albums I-> Jon Lord I-> Roger Glover I-> Jan Gillan etc All my music is about 30 GB in total. | ||
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Guss
Sweden712 Posts
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Southlight
United States11767 Posts
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infinity21
Canada6683 Posts
-> album I usually keep my music folder < 10 GB so it's ok. The rest of the music goes inside my external hd. | ||
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DrainX
Sweden3187 Posts
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intruding
157 Posts
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xmShake
United States1100 Posts
Rough Genres / Language -> Artist/Album/Unsorted Tracks -> Songs Fairly messy for the amount of music I have but I get by. I actually was going to reorganize and retag all my music collection again whilst upgrading to FLAC simultaneously so this is thread is quite helpful to me. | ||
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teh leet newb
United States1999 Posts
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MagisterMan
Sweden525 Posts
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keit
1584 Posts
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LordWeird
United States3411 Posts
From there it's by Band -> Album. A good program for making sure all of your music is tagged in the same fashion is MusicBrainz Picard. edit: Unfortunately for compilations, the artist will be "Various", with song title including the name of the band. | ||
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GreEny K
Germany7312 Posts
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closed
Vatican City State491 Posts
I just divided it into 3 folders 1) "music" - with folders for bands I really know/like/listen to + some separate 'loose tracks' -at some point I thought it would be smart to divide the bands by genere, but I ended up not listening to them at all, if they were hidden somewhere in a "genere_x" folder 2) music2 - with music sorted by genere, or just selected tracks of some artists that I listen to very, very rarely + selection of "party music", "dancing music" etc. Im thinking of moving most of these tracks to folder 3 though. 3) music_temp - all the things that I dont know too well.. I wonder if you really know what your music if you have more that few gb... seriously 100gb is like few months of listening... I have one big problem though... let's say I listen to some album and like 3 out of 12 songs. Im not sure if I should delete the remaining 9 (knowing that there is little chance of me listening to them again), or just put all the albums of a band to the same folder and copy the favourite tracks to the root catalogue (with hope that "I will listen to the rest of the tracks some day"). I use last.fm so I like to have the music tagged, unfortunately I have never found any convenient mp3-tagging tools, e.g. I tried few but non of them allowed me to pick the artist name from a scroll list... I had to copy the artist name 12 times per album + the file names too... which was kinda same as editing them in winamp. btw. I find it pretty hilarious that the term "hardcore" can be used for like 3 completely different generes of music.. I think that techno guy would be quite shocked if he'd check my old "hard-core" folder.. and it would probably the same for me if I randomly tried few "bands" from his :D | ||
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ZorAptoR
Switzerland926 Posts
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KingFool
Canada428 Posts
![[image loading]](http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/4897/musictlp.jpg) | ||
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KingFool
Canada428 Posts
On September 17 2009 11:34 SoMuchSoul wrote: I have around 200 GB of music. I have a folder called "Albums" where all the stuff I download go in there. It's tagged by Artist Name - Album - Year. I also have a folder called "Singles" with subfolders A-Z, 0-9 and organize it from there. I love organizing music, and I did all of this manually. Took me forever, but feels good. Yeah I do the same thing. ![[image loading]](http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/3751/musictl2.jpg) | ||
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Argoth.
Germany1961 Posts
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Mystlord
United States10264 Posts
How else would you do it? | ||
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