How do you organize your digital music collection?

Splewis

Splewis

Splewis

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Was just looking through the several thousand songs I have on the computer and wondering what would be the best way to organize and tag all my songs. What playlists to distribute them too and what genres to use.

I don't want to use loads of sub genres, I like to keep things fairly simple.

So what do you do with yours?
 
Mine get tagged and album art added automatically when dbPoweramp rips them. Stuff ripped using EAC in the past has meant I've had to add the artwork manually. Folder structure is Album Artist - Album/Track Artist - Track Number - Track Name :)

I use fb2k on the PC and have a Squeezebox as well.
 
m:\Music\Nirvana\(1994) In Utero\Nirvana - 01 - First track.mp3

also.... m:\Music\Nirvana\(1994) In Utero\folder.jpg (hidden file)
 
\%artist%\%year% - %album%\%track#+leading 0% - %title%
\%artist%\%year% - %album%\folder.jpg

For compilation albums its \Various Artists\%year% - %album%\%track#+leading 0% - %title%
The files also have the track artist setup.

No playlists.
 
music > artist > album > song

jobie done

a lot easier to do this from the start though, especially if you have several thousand unmanaged songs.
 
Music\Artist\Album\tracknumber_name.
Tags are all over the place, I got bored of doing it. Is there any software that can do it automatically? :p
 
I rate songs I like and intend on listening to again with 5*, and have a custom view in winamp for those songs with 5* only. It's a little large though, as I hand out 5* quite freely. When I get time I'll redo it but include 3* and 4* too.
 
I just use the windows standard folder/file system.

Singles - Artist - Track Title
Albums - Artist - Album Name - Track No. - Track Title.

Painstaking, but worth it.
 
i use foobar and the rather excellent facets plugin. it takes the "filter" idea from other players but gives you a lot more flexibility over what it can show. you can have as many panels as you like, multiple columns per panel, resize the panels, statistics etc. here's my rather simple setup. :p

facets.PNG


best of all, it's very noob friendly (unlike most foobar components :p). it has more than enough settings for you play with by default.
 
Mp3s\

blues\
chillout\
dance\dirty house, high quality singles, house, house hard, mixes, oldskool & early rave, psy-trance, random tracks, scouse house, trance, trance hard
dnb\
downloaded s***\
FLAC\
garage\
happy hardcore\
hip hop\
random\
rock\
soundtracks\

In folders like house there are also folders with hed kandi, fabric, fabric live etc

Then i just chuck whatever i want to hear in winamp 2.5e from 1999 (which i still think is the best after trying numerour version of winamp and other players) Sometimes i will just drag a whole folder in if i want say some chillout music and listen with random shuffle on

Same way goes for my ipod (playlists with rock, chillout, trance, psy-trance etc)
 
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