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How do you organise your music?
2007-01-03, 11:36 PM #1
I figured this didn't belong in the music forum since it's not actually about music, but the organization of it.

I'm thinking about going through all my music that I've ripped over the years and organizing it. Up until about 2 years ago, I just ripped all my CDs into one directory, so I just have some odd number of CD's ripped with no organization.

So what are some ways Massassians organize all their music?
2007-01-03, 11:37 PM #2
iTunes does it for me. Music -> artist names -> album. In folders.

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2007-01-03, 11:49 PM #3
Artist\Album\Tracknumber - Title

Foobar2000 is very useful for organizing music. It can completely move and rename all your stuff based on tags. Unfortunately it is not at all user friendly. There are standalone apps to organize you music, however.
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2007-01-03, 11:51 PM #4
Badly.

I've been meaning to get around to writing a program to set up a nice folder system for me that goes "Band_Name -> Album_Name -> File_Name"

Beyond that, my music player keeps track of it.
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2007-01-03, 11:53 PM #5
Artist\Album\tracknumber - title.extension

though i may start adding year between artist and album because it's all one big playlist sorted by file path which means albums are in alphabetical order instead of chronological order but i am too lazy to bother with it right now
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2007-01-04, 12:00 AM #6
Artist\Album\Artist Name - Track Number - Title.extension
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2007-01-04, 12:02 AM #7
I organize by artist. If I have a complete CD, then each CD gets its own folder.
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2007-01-04, 12:09 AM #8
One glorious pile of random MP3 goodness.
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2007-01-04, 12:09 AM #9
Artist - Album / Artist - Track number - Title.extension
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2007-01-04, 12:16 AM #10
Amarok does it for me.
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2007-01-04, 12:27 AM #11
I never once organized my mp3 folder. Hell, some of the .mp3 files are just labeled "Track 05," "Track 06," "Track 2" etc..
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2007-01-04, 12:48 AM #12
Originally posted by Spork:
One glorious pile of random MP3 goodness.

Artist - Title does just fine for me

then it's sub-devided into 3 folders
general music
music i dont want to listen too (but keep for arcival reasons for various people)
and playlists
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2007-01-04, 4:42 AM #13
some of it is in Artist\Album\[Track] [Title], others are in Artist\[Title]
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2007-01-04, 4:55 AM #14
Originally posted by Greenboy:
iTunes does it for me. Music -> artist names -> album. In folders.


Me too :)

When I first started using iTunes I did it manually, and after months of faffing about realised that iTunes did a far better job at a fraction of the effort :v:
2007-01-04, 5:11 AM #15
If I have albums, I sort them in the specific artist's folder like C:\Music\Artist\Album (year)

Single tracks, I put them in C:\Music. If I have like 10 tracks from some artist, I make a new folder (C:\Music\Artist) for them.

And those that I don't bother renaming I just dump in C:\Music\Unsorted
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2007-01-04, 5:59 AM #16
f:\music\artist\album\disc\artist - xx - title.mp3

I was going to take a picture of the directory tree, but apparently I have too many folders and windows won't let me expand the music tree. :/
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2007-01-04, 7:08 AM #17
Artist\Album (Year)\Track - Title.mp3
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2007-01-04, 7:23 AM #18
Music\Artist\Year - Album\Artist - Album - Track # - Title.ext

If i only have 1 album by an artist, I dont create a folder for the album and just put the tracks in the artists folder.

The reason I put year before album is so that the albums get sorted chronologically.

I use musicbrainz tagger to sort out the file names and IDv3/4 tags, all I have to do is put the tracks in the correct folder.

I have one folder named ٴٴOther (with a tiny arabic symbol that doesn't want to copy at the beginning so it goes at the very end of the list) which I put random songs I've downloaded from artists that I don't have enough songs by to warrant creating a folder for this is the only really messy folder I have.

Occasionally I go through and get rid of stuff that I never listen too, recently I deleted about 2gb worth of live albums because I never listen to them unless they have songs on that aren't on any studio albums I have.
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2007-01-04, 7:41 AM #19
music/album/track
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2007-01-04, 9:00 AM #20
MP3/Artist/Artist - Songname.mp3

I've started doing Artist - Album - Songname.mp3 recently, don't know if I'm going to switch the whole library over or not.
2007-01-04, 9:13 AM #21
Music/Artist - Album/Track # Track Title

Example:
Music/Crimson Thorn - Dissection/01 Beaten Beyond.mp3

I let media libraries take care of the real organization. Winamp being my favorite, Amarok in second.
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2007-01-04, 9:21 AM #22
I do Albums\<Artist Name> - <Album Name>\<#> - <Song Name>.mp3 for all albums.

Movie albums go in Movies\<Movie Name>\<#> - <Song Name>.mp3.

Then I got Video Game music and remixes: Video Games\<Game Name>\<Song Name>.mp3.

Everything else gets dumped in Misc\ with a couple subdirectories.

2007-01-04, 9:28 AM #23
Arist > Album > Song

Or I just jumble all my songs into one playlist in winamp
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2007-01-04, 10:04 AM #24
Originally posted by Impi:
Amarok does it for me.


.

Other than that, all my albums are just scattered throughout one directory. On my old hard drive, I'd make directories for each artist, but I've been too lazy for that.
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2007-01-04, 11:15 AM #25
Random jumble of MP3s all over my HDD.
2007-01-04, 11:22 AM #26
I have it organized as Format/Artist/Album/Track, where Format is either FLAC or OGG. All my CDs are ripped to FLAC and later transcoded to OGG for my Rio Karma. I also use Amarok to play my music, so organization is not as important if it is tagged properly.
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2007-01-04, 11:26 AM #27
My Music/Artist Name - Song Title

That's for all my loose tracks that people have sent me over various IM things.

Otherwise,

My Music/Artist Name - Album Title/Track Number - Artist Name - Track Title.
nope.
2007-01-04, 12:29 PM #28
Zune.
2007-01-04, 12:33 PM #29
My Music\Artist\Album\Track - Title.ext

or

My Music\Artist\Album\Artist - Track - Title.ext

Even loose tracks are organized this way when I get around to it.
2007-01-04, 1:04 PM #30
Albumname/artist - album - trackname.whatever
2007-01-04, 1:06 PM #31
Music (Folder) --> all the letters of the alphabet (Folder) --> artist name (folder) --> song name (file)
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2007-01-04, 3:19 PM #32
MP3/Artist - Title.mp3
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2007-01-04, 3:23 PM #33
iTunes Music --> Artist ---> Album ---> Song
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2007-01-04, 4:19 PM #34
G:\Band Name\Album Name\TrackNo - Song Title

Where G is a partition specifically for music.

[edit: oh, and in linux- the "G" drive is mapped to /media/music/]
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2007-01-04, 4:39 PM #35
However iTunes does it by default.
Think while it's still legal.
2007-01-04, 4:42 PM #36
Originally posted by Impi:
Amarok does it for me.

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2007-01-04, 7:47 PM #37
Originally posted by Greenboy:
iTunes does it for me. Music -> artist names -> album. In folders.

Ditto. And since I immediately tag every... er... appropriated song I receive, I have little problem with the way iTunes does it.
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2007-01-04, 7:55 PM #38
People that complain about iTunes don't get their music legally :p
Think while it's still legal.
2007-01-04, 8:03 PM #39
I let iTunes do it for me, setting my library directory to C:\Music
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2007-01-05, 4:36 AM #40
I have music in two forms digitally and on CD. My CD rack is organised by how much I like the album (however it depends on the genre - Im into heavy metal, so it takes priority) and currently the top space on my rack is occupied by Least Worst Of by Type O Negative - its great! :) I also have a space to CDs I buy but have not listened to yet.

When it comes to digitally - I refer to MD (Mini-Disc) and the software I use with it does the organising. Besides I storing music on the hard-disc of a PC wastes space. Besides its too much effort :)
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