How do you name and structure your music?

[amoeba]

I'm curious how we all format and organize our music. I want to know what most people use so I can follow along! ;)

I used to use...

\Music\Artist - Album\Artist - # - Title

Now I use...

\Music\Artist\Album\{VARIES}

When I say {VARIES} I mean that my files are mixed at this point, they vary between

\Music\Artist\Album\# - Title

and

\Music\Artist\Album\Artist - # - Title

What do we all use? I know iTunes likes...

\Music\Artist\Album\# - Title

What's the best way to name and organize your music?

Thanks,

amoeba

[northblue]

i just let itunes handle it...

before i tunes, i just tossed it in the "my music" folder, and named it "artist - song name". i used a jukebox program that could read id3 tags automatically and worked much the same way itunes does, but without the playlists.

[semifamous]

Since not all music is tagged, and sometimes, not all music is sorted, I prefer to have everything in the filename.

This makes for some nasty sorting tho if you have everything in one folder.

Here's our structure:

Music\First Letter\Artist\Album\Artist - Album - #. Name.ogg

For compilations, we have a separate folder:

Music\_Compilations\Album\Album - #. Artist - Song.ogg

There's a !Soundtracks folder in the _Compilations folder with the same structure.

Of course, we've got just under 20,000 mp3s at work, so we also have a script that can search by filename. We're still trying to figure out how to make it search my ID3 tag instead, but no luck yet.

[STV]

I like WMP9 to handle it, but I have it stored like this:

\My Documents\My Music\Artist Name\Album Name\artist name-song.wma

STV

[MEMO.INC]

\Mp3\(here could be oldies(<1980) or normal(>1980))\Artist\Album\Artist - # - Title

With WMP9 i've got all the album art

My betales folder:

[QuarterSwede]

I have all mine before iTunes catergorized by genre. All imported after iTunes is sorted as iTunes likes in My Documents\My Music\

[Galley]

On my desktop I use

Artist\Album\ 01 - Track name.mp3

On my iHP-120 I use

Artist\Album\01 Track Name.mp3 so more of the song title will display on the screen without scrolling. I have a folders of single that are (Singles)\Artist - Track Name.mp3

[xfodder]

i have a music hard drive then i sort it as follows

Artists A-Z\artists name\album name\then if needed i then have live versions of songs etc.

i also have a download folder, which i then move the music to the appropriate folder.

as for the filename i only use the track name and i put the artist name and album name etc. in the summary.

[HPMCommander]

Mine is all over my hard drive and i just have a huge playlist in winamp. That's how it's "organized".

[Pink Floyd Veteran]

music\artist\[year] artist - album name\artist_00_titletrack.flac

[wrex]

The way I've stuck to is:

D:/Music/<genre>/Artist - Album/Track - Artist - Title.mp3

<genre> is just a general thing:

- Rock, Alt, Indie

- Trance, Techno, Dance

- Rnb, Rap, etc

Someone above said the named files like: "Artist - Track - Title"

If it's a mixed CD though, then the artist differs for each song, and the track number is irrelevant.

I don't use any programs like Itunes or WMP for organising though, as, well, I like my system. :)

[eevoo]

(folder)Artist

(folder) album

tracks

[Cerpin Taxt]

artist-album\track-artist-song.mp3

because it makes sense and thats how most downloads come

[mtrftw]

I use this setup with EAC

For a normal album from a single artist:

%D - (%Y) %C - %N - %T

For a compilation with various artists:

VA - %C - %N - %A - %T

For soundtracks, even with single composer:

OST - %C - %N - %A - %T

[jymi]

artist - title

[sanctified Veteran]

d:/My Voices/Artist/Album/# - song title.mp3

[bogomip]

Mp3 structure

Mine is Catagory>Artist>Album>song , unless its a bunch of singles and misc crap which I'll just throw in a folder. I dont rely on mp3 tags or playlists though. Its not too efficient however, but I'm used to the way I organize things. :rolleyes:

[sanctified Veteran]

Mp3 structure

Mine is Catagory>Artist>Album>song , unless its a bunch of singles and misc crap which I'll just throw in a folder. I dont rely on mp3 tags or playlists though. Its not too efficient however, but I'm used to the way I organize things. :rolleyes:

hey, great music selection, is weird to find another person besides me that likes asemnlage 23

[insanekiwi]

Artist (alphabetical order a-z)/album title/song#

done.

most logical order imo.

[Shibby]

E:\Music\L\Led Zeppelin

is the basic form of how i layout my collection

if theres box sets or compilations for a certion group or artist it be like this

E:\Music\L\Led Zeppelin\Box Sets

E:\Music\O\Ozzy Osbourne\Compilation

if i have osts and compilation(eg the best of rock) albums it be like this

E:\Music\Compilations

E:\Music\Compilations\Best Of

E:\Music\Compilations\VAs

E:\Music\Compilations\VAs\Tribute

E:\Music\Compilations\VAs\Rock And Alternative

E:\Music\Compilations\VAs\Punk And Emo

E:\Music\Compilations\Kerrang

E:\Music\Compilations\Punk o Rama

E:\Music\OSTS

and i arange groups/artists albums by when they was released

here is what i mean

Led Zeppelin - 01 - Led Zeppelin I

Led Zeppelin - 02 - Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin - 03 - Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin - 04 - Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin - 05 - House of the holy

Led Zeppelin - 06 - Physical Graffiti

so on so forth

same with compilations and box sets :)

[akaladis Veteran]

lol.. its a mess here... some are nice and neat with ID3 tags and such... some others are just categorized in folders :)

[Applejuice]

I've got all my music like this:

E:\Oma musiikki\Artist\Album\track number with leading 0. Artist - Track title.mp3

example:

E:\Oma Musiikki\System Of a Down\Toxicity\12. System Of a Down - Toxicity.mp3

works very well and everything is in order :)

I also have a folder.jpg in every album folder to show the cover art :p

and oh, Oma musiikki is finnish, and it means own music in english :)

[Borbus]

I use the way CDex does it by default

My Music\Artist\Album\## - Track Name

[Syanide]

example:

My Music\KoRn\Issues\01-Dead.mp3

I thought of making it KoRn-01-Dead.mp3, but since i keep all my music collection well tagged, i dont reallz need that, and it would take a lot even with special software to rename it all...

[ThalSwe]

d:\Mp3\Artist\Album\"Artist-Title"