Alien Venom Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 I have several thousand MP3's I'd say, but I'm looking for another way of organizing them. Possibly by Genre, or even Artist. I'm eager to see the ways that my fellow Neowinians have come up with to organize theirs, before I make a final decision. Please share how you organize yours. - AV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruciz Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 Organize eh? I created a folder, called music, with 3 subfolders, good, bad and full. the one called good is for all my MP3s that are not errored (checked with MP3 checker i stumbled upon), and are high quality, then theres bad, for all my low-quality MP3s/errored MP3s. then theres my full albums folder, for full albums. As to organizing them by genre, artist, etc, its just a waste of time, I just use winamp and press j to "jump to" the song/artist I want to hear. The only reason I could see organizing them is if your burning them and want them by genre, like all country, all folk etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurting101 Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 I have a different folder for each album with the album art... but if you have thousands that may be a little time consuming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrxrm Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 Have you gotten your mp3z from the net, or have you done them yourself? If you have gotten them from the net,they may not have proper ID tags. If you know they have proper ID tags, Music Match Jukebox or Windows media player can organize by your ID tags. If you have done them yourself, they have probably been tagged properly by the program your rip from. If so then the above willl also apply. It can get messy if you don't have them tagged or if the file names are not unified. Either way it is a pain. But using programs to organize by ID tags is good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tronmaster Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 I have it broken down like this: My Music: 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 Bootlegs Remix Trance Soundtracks Then additional sub-folders per Artist and Album for example: Bootlegs - Pink Floyd - The Bell Rings or 2000 - Pink Floyd - Echos: The Best of Pink Floyd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemo Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 Originally posted by Ruciz Organize eh? I created a folder, called music, with 3 subfolders, good, bad and full. the one called good is for all my MP3s that are not errored (checked with MP3 checker i stumbled upon), and are high quality, then theres bad, for all my low-quality MP3s/errored MP3s. then theres my full albums folder, for full albums. As to organizing them by genre, artist, etc, its just a waste of time, I just use winamp and press j to "jump to" the song/artist I want to hear. The only reason I could see organizing them is if your burning them and want them by genre, like all country, all folk etc. what is this mp3 checker you talk about? and what exactly does it do... i might want it :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kibler Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 I have about 60gigs of mp3s, all sorted by artist and then album. Some artists are a bit better sorted than others of course. I dont have the time to go through and do all the file names properly. Hey Tronmaster how many Pink Floyd roio's do you have? A CD Full of Secrets A Trick of the Light Animal Instincts Aphrodite Atom Heart Mother Goes On The Road Azimuth Coordinator Part One Azimuth Coordinator Part Two Beset By Creatures of the Deep Boston Gardens 1975 Brick By Brick British Winter Tour 74 Cold Front Cosmic Music Dark Side Of Radio City De Doelen Echoes in the Garden Embryo Embryo San Diego 1971 Exploding In Your Mind Floyd in Europe From Oblivion - 1971 Hot Ashes For Trees In the Flesh Ivor Wynne Live at Montreux 1971 Londonfields Meddler Moon Walk P3 Plays The Animals Remergence Singles and Junk Smoking Blues Soldier Field 77 Sons of Nothing Staying Home to Watch the Rain Stranger than Fiction The Bell Gets Louder The Best of Tour '72 The Complete Top Gear Sessions 1967-1969 The Dark Side of the Sky The Darkside Rehearsals The Great Gig on the Moon The Man and The Journey Total Eclipse Set Trance Remixs Welcome to the Machine Westwood One Superstar Concert Series What Rog Wants Yeeshkul I actually own the majority of those on pressed cd :-p Hugs and kisses, Kibler :) :p :cool: :o ;) :D :rambo: :knocked: :old: :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tribe98 Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 First by genre, then artist, then album. I have over 50 gigs. And I find this organization to work the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnyy4 Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 Mine is all in one folder, no orgainzation. However, you might want to change all your ID3 tags to contain only Artist and Song information. As for the name, I would suggest "Song - Title.mp3" If you have a lot from one artist, then give it its own folder! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asldkjqo Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 i have 1 music folder that has 28 subfolders, one for each letter, one for numbers, and one for unorganized songs each artist goes in the proper letter folder according to their last name. if i have a full cd or live show i make a folder in the letter folder specifying it currently i'm organzing my file names and my id3 tags with over 6000 songs its kinda hard :- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemo Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 I only have 900+ mp3s. I have them all in 1 directory, "Mp3s" :roll: they're all in the "Artist - Song Name.mp3" format. So if I ever want to create subdirectories for artists, it'll be easy. But album... nah uh... that'll be too tedious :cross: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axis Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 Well I am completely sick when it comes to organizing, especially my music. Mine is all organized by each artisit then a subfolder within that with the album title. Its just how I rip my cds, and it is better. So if you ripped all your mp3s from cds, then make your ripping program do something like that. If not, then just use some great multimedia functions in XP. Set your explorer display to 'Details' instead of large icons or whatever. In the specs it shows, add something like genre or whatever you want to organize them by. Make windows sort them by genre and just cut n paste them into specific folders for that. Works the same with artist, album etc. If you want to see how mine looks you can kind of get an idea by clicking here Another thing to do is get Tag&Rename 2.0. If you have an album ripped but no id3 tags or not very accurate ones, it will go to the CDDB and get the tags and write them for you. This is one of the best programs I have ever used, it does EVERYTHING. Get that here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemo Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 Originally posted by axis ....If you want to see how mine looks you can kind of get an idea by clicking here .... axis, I really like that webpage type thing. I'm guessing its a layout of all your files in a certain directory or whatever. And im also guessing that you didn't do it by hand. I have been looking for a program like that for a long time. Can you tell me the program you used for that? oh and uhh.. are you really a p.o.w.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tronmaster Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 Hi Kibler!! Yea big Pink Floyd fan here ;) Here is my list: 3 A Tree Full of Secrets (17 discs but I still need 3 to complete my collection) A Trick Of Light Brain Damage Brick By Brick Caught In The Crossfire Childhood's End Echoes In The Garden Eclipse For Whom The Bell Tolls Forbidden Samples Fort Worth, Texas From Oblivion From The Other Side Interstellar Crossing Interstellar Encore Man And The Journey Mutinae Oakland 1977 Phenomena Reversion or Revalorization Roger Waters Welcome To The Machine Smoking Blues The Bell Gets Louder The Knebworth Tales '90 The Live Bell The Wall Movie Tongue Tied And Twisted Welcome To The Machine (Trance) World Tour 1987 Whew....thats it! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimeryme Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 for those who organize by artist/album, this program might suit you, it's like the one axis mentions, but it grabs the info from websites that doesn't seem to be cddb. sometimes, i can't find the exact one i'm looking for, depending on the country of the cd's origin. anyway check it out @ mp3ir.com should tell u that in the ID3 comments mp3ir.com is inserted though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axis Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 Yea the program I used for that was called DirHTML, tho it didnt do it exactly like that. I had to go into the HTML and do a couple 'global replaces' on certain parts to get it bold, spaced and colored right. I guess you can do that by configuring its config file but I couldnt figure it out. It just took a listing of all my files in my 'Music' folder and listed them. You can set file sizes, dates etc. Pretty customizable, if you figure out those config files please tell me how you did it, I hate how I did it. Also, Tag&Rename also will check www.allmusic.com for your track listings if it doesnt get it from the CDDB, ive never used it so I dunno if it works, just the CDDB for me. I suppose it is similar to mp3ir.com. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemo Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 thanks axis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvorgold Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 damn, n i thought neil young had ALOT of albums (n hes coming out with a new one next month) lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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