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How do you format...
2005-05-21, 6:46 AM #1
...your music on your hard drive?

Mine looks like this:

D:\Music\Classic Rock\Genesis\Turn It On Again - The Hits (2000)\16 - Misunderstanding.mp3

or

D:\Music\Rock\Alice In Chains\Dirt (Limited Edition) (1992)\Disc 1\05 - Rooster.mp3
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2005-05-21, 6:53 AM #2
I don't particularly like the folder system. I like all the important information to be in the actual mp3 filename, so if I move it out of the folder I know exactly what it is.
I'm rarely too bothered about album names, so I just have Artist - Song.mp3.
V:\Rammstein\Rammstein - Moskau.mp3

I also hate it when spaces are replaced with underscores.
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2005-05-21, 7:01 AM #3
Yeah, I can't stand underscores either. But I usually just have a big folder called mp3s and I have all my important music in that folder. I didn't find a big need to organize it as I usually rename my mp3s in this format:

Artist - Song Name

So everything is listed alphabetically and I can spot the artist like I can the folder, although now my songlist is building up and i'm considering using artist folders.
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2005-05-21, 7:12 AM #4
E:\Music\Band Name\Album Name\Band Name - Album Name - Track Number - Song title.mp3

e.g.

E:\Music\A Perfect Circle\Thirteenth Step\A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step - 01 - The Package.mp3

I like to keep the track number in the file name so that they get ordered properly when imported into winamp.
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2005-05-21, 7:27 AM #5
I generally save 'em as...

C:\Blah\Final Fantasy 7\FFVII - 304 - Descendant of the Shinobi.mp3

or

\Unreal Tournament\UT - Mechanism Eight.mp3
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2005-05-21, 7:28 AM #6
All my media is stored on my file server and mounted on my workstations on /data via NFS. Songs are stored first by genre, then by artist, then the track name.

An example file;
Code: 
/data/audio/Classic Rock/Led Zeppelin/Led Zeppelin - Since I've been loving you.mp3


Video is stored similarly...

Code: 
/data/video/cat/Family Guy/Family Guy - 401 - North by North Quahog.avi
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2005-05-21, 9:51 AM #7
Like this:

You can also see that I have a "Unnamed Music" folder, which is where my music waits to be properly tagged. Since I'm so lazy, a lot of the music in there has been there for over a year. :o

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2005-05-21, 9:53 AM #8
I'm lazy too.

Until i found this little program which will tag and rename mp3 files for you :p
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2005-05-21, 9:56 AM #9
I just throw all my music in one folder.
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2005-05-21, 9:57 AM #10
I've told iTunes to sort my music for me. I never go into the actual folder.

F:\Musik\The Red-Bellied Hamlet Hillbillies\Vengeance Was His Game\05 R+G.mp3
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2005-05-21, 10:02 AM #11
Mine's just C:\music\artist\

I don't really care about what album, unless different variations of the same song are on different albums.
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2005-05-21, 10:47 AM #12
...\Music\Artist - Album\Artist - Album - Track - Name.mp3

eg ...\Music\Tool - Lateralus\Tool - Lateralus - 01 - The Grudge.mp3
2005-05-21, 10:50 AM #13
...\My Documents\My Music\Eve 6\Eve 6\08 - Tongue Tied.mp3
my ID3 tags tell me all i need to know after that matter

Band\cd\mp3s
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2005-05-21, 12:20 PM #14
/fat32/music/music/[bandname]/[album]/[songs]

I use /fat32/music for non-music files. Sort of a weird system, I suppose. fat32 is my Windows partition, which I never use, except as storage space.
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2005-05-21, 12:33 PM #15
C:\Music\Artist\Album (Year)\Track Number - Track.format

for example

C:\Music\Jean-Michel Jarre\Equinoxe (1978)\04 - Equinoxe Part IV.mp3

That only happens if I have many tracks of the artist/band, otherwise I'll throw them in the same folder by Author - Name.format or by their original name.
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2005-05-21, 1:01 PM #16
Quote:
Originally posted by Freelancer
I just throw all my music in one folder.


Same. Bleh! to organisation!
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2005-05-21, 3:45 PM #17
M:/Music/<letter of the alphabet>/Artist - Song.mp3
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2005-05-21, 4:03 PM #18
D:\Media\Music

they start off in:

\Miscellaneous

where I have a big collection of correctly tagged random music.

when I have at least one album or a sufficient number of tracks for an artist they get moved to:

\Artists\[Artist Name]

with individual tracks going in the root of the folder and albums getting subdirectories, eg:

\Artists\[Artist Name]\[Album Name]\

Standalone songs are named as:

[Artist Name] - [Song Name]

Whilst songs that are part of full albums get:

[Track Number] - [Song Name]

Songs from compilation albums don't get album folders, they get shoved in Miscellaneous or the relevant Artist folder.
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2005-05-21, 4:22 PM #19
C:\Documents and Settings\landfish\My Documents\My Music\Lifehouse\All in All.mp3

in general

......My Music\album\title
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2005-05-21, 4:32 PM #20
C:\Music\Kill Hannah - [Race The Dream]
2005-05-21, 7:04 PM #21
Quote:
Originally posted by Simbachu
I've told iTunes to sort my music for me. I never go into the actual folder.


Ditto. And as far as I'm concerned, it does a damned fine job of it.
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2005-05-21, 7:18 PM #22
C:\my music\Artist\Album\01 - Title.extension

various artists
C:\My Music\Various Artists\Album\01 - Title.extension

each album's folder has a folder.jpg (or png) with the album art

helps with my playlist sorting in foobar
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2005-05-21, 9:23 PM #23
F:\My Media Folder\Unsorted, New
F:\My Media Folder\New, Unsorted
F:\My Media Folder\Music\New\Unsorted

...etc :)

For the sorted folders, it's:

F:\My Media Folder\Music\Name of Artist\Name of Album\01 - Artist - Track Name.extension
2005-05-21, 9:28 PM #24
G:/Music/Artist/Song Name.mp3

that way it works better when i put songs on my Iriver...
2005-05-21, 11:14 PM #25
Majority of my mp3s are from anime so I just organize it into folders with the anime's name and anything non-anime goes in a "misc" folder.
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2005-05-22, 12:57 AM #26
Quote:
Originally posted by Mort-Hog
I don't particularly like the folder system. I like all the important information to be in the actual mp3 filename, so if I move it out of the folder I know exactly what it is.
I'm rarely too bothered about album names, so I just have Artist - Song.mp3.
V:\Rammstein\Rammstein - Moskau.mp3

I also hate it when spaces are replaced with underscores.


100% agreed.
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2005-05-22, 1:57 AM #27
I throw everything in the /mp3 folder, formatted as Author - track name.mp3
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2005-05-22, 9:00 AM #28
Music/Artist (band name) - Title
Video/series - episode # - Title of Show
Video/Movie Name (possabel year #)
Video/Artist (band name) - Name of Music Video
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2005-05-22, 12:13 PM #29
Mine are completely unorganized

A lot of it is in D:/music, some are in my "Pommy's stuff" folder, some are in random folders just lying around. Winamp unites all of them, though, so I don't bother moving them around.
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2005-05-22, 12:19 PM #30
Desktop:

C:\Audio\Artist\Album\01 Track1.m4a

Laptop:

C:\Mystuff\Music\Artist\Album\01 Track1.m4a

I just got iTunes to organise my music on the desktop, (it's never been done and I can't be bothered to do it all mysief) although I use the same organisation on my laptop, I do it all by hand.

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