[EddieE]

Artist (Last Name, First Name for proper names; "The" to the end, normal order for stage names)
Aphex Twin
Beatles, The
Hendrix, Jimi

Year - Album Name
1995 - I Care Because You Do
1996 - Richard D. James Album
2001 - Drukqs

Track Number Track Name
01 Acrid Avid Jam Shred
02 The Waxen Pith
03 Wax The Nip

- Seems to keep everything in good order.

 

[bsdr]

I have 200 GB, the general scheme looks like this:
\<Artist> - <quality>\<Year> - <Album>\<Track> - <Title>
or
\<Artist> - <quality>\<Studio or Live>\<Year> - <Album>\<Track> - <Title>

 

[squall343]

i go by genre then by artist

and i further arrange them using foobar playlist where i chuck every thing into a big genre list

 

[ROBSCIX]

Right now I just keep,
Artist
Album
Album

I leave quality out of it as they are all FLAC. As I said though, when ripping my CD's I make sure the tags and all are setup properly or the next thing you know, you have a big mess of half named files and tagless media. I was considering Genre, but I find some of it to be opinion rather then set fact.
I have many playlists, mine the GF's..etc..

 

[Bill St. Clair]

I use artist and album, too. Occasionally, when I can't remember the name of something, but I know its genre, I'll enable the genre column to make browsing easier. I still have lots of compressed music on my disk, so I put " - lossless" at the end of the album title for all the uncompressed albums, so that I can easily filter on that. I put "Audiophile" in the "Comments" for particularly good recordings.

 

[ROBSCIX]

OK, what is the opinion on recordings of certain songs that are Live, acoustic versions or covers?
What would you do with these?

 

[sonci]

Quote:

Originally Posted by EddieE /img/forum/go_quote.gif Artist (Last Name, First Name for proper names; "The" to the end, normal order for stage names) Aphex Twin Beatles, The Hendrix, Jimi Year - Album Name 1995 - I Care Because You Do 1996 - Richard D. James Album 2001 - Drukqs Track Number Track Name 01 Acrid Avid Jam Shred 02 The Waxen Pith 03 Wax The Nip - Seems to keep everything in good order.

x2

 

[Justin Uthadude]

I don’t do any organizing. That’s what tags are for. My files are named “artist – songtitle.flac” in case I have more than one version of a particular song by separate artists. I do append (live) to the end of the songtitle when appropriate.

I use MediaMonkey for my library software. It will (re-)organize by anything in the tags: genre, album, year, etc. It will ignore ‘the’ so The Beatles falls between Aphex and Cocteau for sorting. It will also do mass retagging. I used to have a genre called International for songs that didn’t fit anywhere else. Then I told it International = World. Done. Still not perfect, but for me genres are a work in progress.
.

 

[ROBSCIX]

So then you don't keep your songs in Albums?
Just a big list?

 

[BigTony]

Use MusicBrainz Picard - job done.

 

[adiZero]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Justin Uthadude /img/forum/go_quote.gif I don’t do any organizing. That’s what tags are for. My files are named “artist – songtitle.flac” in case I have more than one version of a particular song by separate artists. I do append (live) to the end of the songtitle when appropriate. I use MediaMonkey for my library software. It will (re-)organize by anything in the tags: genre, album, year, etc. It will ignore ‘the’ so The Beatles falls between Aphex and Cocteau for sorting. It will also do mass retagging. I used to have a genre called International for songs that didn’t fit anywhere else. Then I told it International = World. Done. Still not perfect, but for me genres are a work in progress. .

This is how I do it as well! Any reason I should organize them in folders as well??

 

[ROBSCIX]

Well it is up to you.
Personally I keep the organized in albums.
The album has the songs, Cue sheet, cover, other artwork.
etc..
That is partly the reason I put up this thread to get ideas of how others are organizing their music.

 

[adiZero]

I have them organized this way:
Artist > Album (alphabetical)

But, I again it is organized with tags using Mediamonkey.

 

[ROBSCIX]

I thought you meant they were just all in a big list...every song from every album in the same folder.
Anyway, I found the more media I accumulate the greater the need for organization and proper tagging becomes. It seem others think the same way in regards to keeping things organized.

 

[adiZero]

Oh yeah, you need to have it organized when you have 1500 albums....