Folder structure for music.....

R.O.S.S.I

R.O.S.S.I

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After a few ideas here really on how other people do this but i've just recently bought a NAS and will be moving all my music over to it. At the moment its not really in any form of order so I was just wondering how you guys arrange your folders with your music in.

At the moment I basically just have all my albums in a folder called "Music" but my OCD is beginning to get the better of me as I also have folders like "*artistname* Live Sets" and I have no where to store individual tracks and remixes in any order for various different artists/DJ's

E.g, I have the Eric Prydz artist album, shed loads of his individual tracks and remixes, loads of his podcasts and live sets. Would you guys have a folder called Eric Prydz, then in that have a separate folder for single tracks/remixes, albums, and podcasts/livemixes?

I know its all down to personal taste so just wondering how some of you guys arrange your shizz!
 
Music
Downloaded
Bandcamp
Letter of the alphabet
Artist
Album
​

​
Boomkat
Letter of the alphabet
Artist
Album
​
Mixes / Podcasts
Letter of the alphabet
Podcast Album
​
Ripped CDs
Letter of the alphabet
Artist
Album
​

For mixes / podcasts, the podcast album is usually the name of the podcast show (so Rinse FM for example), or the source from which I downloaded the mix (like soundcloud or something). The tracks are then titled by [YearMonthDay] - Artist - TrackTitle.mp3.

I download all Youngsta's Minimal Monday mixes from RinseFM, so they're in the RinseFM folder and the last one was titled [20140609] - Youngsta - Minimal Mondays.mp3
 
I've been putting actually getting my **** in order with music.

My general plan, given that it is all pretty much various genres of dance music is:

Year
Genre
Then group by artist regardless if it is an original mix or remix, so all the Paul van Dyk original tracks and his remixes will be grouped together as an example.
 
ohesecks - so with your method, when you've got the letter of the alphabet -> artist do you just have all the single tracks by that artist under the "artist" folder?
 
I have a Single Music Folder, in that I have a selection of A-C, D-F etc folders. Then in there I have the albums, if it is a single album by an artist then it is just placed in the N-N folder labelled Artist-Album, if I have more than one album by an artist I created a folder in the N-N folder for said Artist, then the albums go in there as normal.

Works for me.
 
R.O.S.S.I said:
ohesecks - so with your method, when you've got the letter of the alphabet -> artist do you just have all the single tracks by that artist under the "artist" folder?
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It looks like this;

CD Rips (Main dir)
A (Letter dir)
Aerosmith (Artist dir)
Pump (Album dir)
TrackNumber - TrackTitlte.extension (file)
​
Agent Orange (Artist dir)
Living In Darkness (Album dir)
TrackNumber - TrackTitle.extension (file)
​
B (Letter dir)
Bloodhound Gang (Artist dir)
One fierce beer coaster (Album dir)
TrackNumber - TrackTitle.extension (file)
​

It's pretty much the same for downloaded from bandcamp / boomkat as well.

So you have the actual file, in it's relevant album directory, in it's relevant artist directory in it's relevant alphabetical directory.

I do know some people who categorise by year, format, whether the album is a reissue, repress, limited run, dubplate, yada yada yada. But even that's too much for me. If there's anything spectacularly unique about what I've ripped / downloaded, I will mention it in the notes section of the ID3 tag.
 
Root of drive has several folders

\ 01 - Audio CD \ Artist \ Year - Album Title (Version) \
\ 02 - Vinyl \ Artist \ Year - Album Title (Version) \
\ 03 - Hi-Def \ Artist \ Year - Album Title (Version) \
\ 04 - Downloads \ Artist \Year - Album Title (Version) \
\ 05 - Podcasts \ Podcast Title \
\ 06 - Comedy \ Artist \ Year - Album Title (Version) \

Reason the Version of the various albums is there is because I have multiple versions of many albums. Something like 11 different versions of Dark Side Of The Moon for example, 9 different versions of Please Please Me and so on...
 
Once I've got tags sorted I use mediamonkey to organise albums using the following mask:

$Assign(C,$Upper($Left($RemovePrefix(<Album Artist>),1)))M:\Artists\$If($Use(C)>0,"0",$Use(C))\<Album Artist>\<Year> <Album>\<Track#:2> <Title>

Which gives an example result of
\Artists\P\Pink Floyd\1977 Animals\02 Dogs.flac

I add suffixes like [CDS], [C], and [L] to the album name for singles, compilations, bootlegs and (official) live albums, and have separate folder structures for audio books, soundtracks, various artists, classical etc.

It does the job for me. If you've got remixes you could consider putting them in a "misc" folder under the artist, or perhaps giving them an album name with a suffix of [R] to indicate remixes associated with that album. When the tags are how you want them then it's pretty easy to change how it's all organised in folders.
 
So where would you store you say for example my compilation albums.....

e.g. Universal Religion Volumes 1-7 (mixed by Armin van Buuren) ...... would they go in their own Universal Religion folder or be stored in a UR folder under my Armin van Buuren folder.

Also how would you categorise say for example my In Search of Sunrise compilations which are mixed by different people for each edition. Would you just pop them in their own In Search of Sunrise folder, devoid of any particular artist?
 
Music / C / Compilation /

For example, I have a few of LTJ Bukem's earth series on CD, so they reside in; Ripped CDs / C / Compilations / LTJ Bukem / Earth Volume # / TrackNumber - TrackArtist - TrackName.extension.

So if I was sticking ISOS in a folder it would be; Music / C / Compilations / Tiesto / ISOS # / TrackNumber - TrackArtist - TrackName.extension.

Of course, ISOS switched up who mixed it from ISOS 8, so I would put 8 and on in their respective folders, example being; Music / C / Compilations / Richard Durand / ISOS 8 / TrackNumber - TrackArtist - TrackName.extension.

Unlike other file naming schemes, I include the artist in compilation file names since the track artist is nearly never the individual who made the compilation. Otherwise I just go by the usual TrackNumber - TrackName.extension format in regular albums.
 
I see yeh, not sure i'm down with splitting up mix series' like that though, rather have them all in one place!

Might just stick them all under I \ In Search of Sunrise \ Volume 1.... etc

Given me a massive headache sorting all my music out!
 
Psymonkee said:
Music\Artist\(album year) Album Title\Track Number - Artist - Song Title

Simple and easy to keep a track of :)
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Nearly identical to this.

Albums\Artist\Album year Album Title\Artist - Track Number - Song Title



I also have a separate live folder (I ID3 tag each artist as "Artist (Live)" to distinguish when I used an MP3 player) and a Misc folder for random single songs where I don't want the album.


Edit: Not entirely sure why I bumped a 6-day old thread to add some pretty meaningless info. Oops.
 
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