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This is something I'm curious about, since I have over 120 GB of music, some flac/other lossless format, mostly mp3, and now, a growing number of doujin (mostly trancecore) albums in ogg.
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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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.
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Simply: I don't. I have stuff on my desktop 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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isnt there a Album Artist parameter for your music? thats what i use for my compilations. for example i have a DJ mix from armin van buuren. If i let the software automatically update my track names etc it doesnt get sorted with Armin van Buuren. so i enter Armin's name in the Album Artist parameter and voila it shows up with the rest of his stuff!
i use itunes though, so i have no idea about the software you are using.
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I listen to like 5 bands. Not that tough. 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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I have them sorted by artist!
My stuff is pretty unorganized though. My music folder is a complete mess ;_;
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I mean, having artist folders with album sub-folders works pretty well, and I use MP3tag to take care of the tagging, but I don't really like having albums floating around not in it's own super-folder.
Some albums are also clustered in folders by label. -_-
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Hahaha, I only have 290 songs. They all go in the same folder.
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Most of it in one jumbled folder, with major bands having their own sub-folder. I'm a bit of a messy person.
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NeverGG
United Kingdom5399 Posts
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 always do it like this;
Epik High - Fan.
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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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Semiorganized by album/single name and band/performer name, I have yet to figure out a good solution myself.
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I don't have any special way of organizing it. I just have all my stuff in itunes. I only have about 3.5GB in my collection and of that I really only like listening to probably 1/5 of it.
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Jeeze at 120 GB and 200 GB, only 40ish here 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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Sorted I sort like this (series takes highest priority, followed by composer): \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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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. -_-
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I don't I got tried of buying music and finding music i just listen to the same songs over and over. Boring? maybe But if i want a new song well the radio in my car works just fine or the radio on my mp3 player.
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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Wow @ people with 100+ gigs of music. I barely got a tad bit more then 30 and i have about 75 songs that aren't organized as of yet(which i need to do btw) but since owning a few ipods, I organize my music through itunes. Shows up nicely on mp3 players this way and like the others I am very anal about having my music in order so I can find what I want to listen to.
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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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
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