25-02-2005 11:18									#1
	Question: how do you organize your MP3s? Avatar Enlargement: We've got the solution

After years of slow downloading, my MP3 count have finally exceed 2000. So I need some better way of organizing MP3s that can encode more information than a bloody file tree. I guess could just change the file names and ID3 tag and use search functions in more modern media players but I really don't want to change anything about my files.

So, how do you organize your mp3s?

*or should I leave everything to entropy*

	25-02-2005 11:22									#2
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I put them all in my 'Shared' folder and then View/sort by/name.

Quick 'n' simple

	25-02-2005 11:29									#3
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Whole albums are sorted by directories: \Artists\Album\

I browse them in the Media Library in Winamp, or my Nomad.

	25-02-2005 11:39									#4
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Voila.

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	25-02-2005 11:45									#5
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Each band gets its own directory, pretty straight forward especially since I don't like most bands enough to keep entire albums.

	25-02-2005 11:53									#6
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genre/artist/album

	25-02-2005 12:10									#7
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itunes

	25-02-2005 12:17									#8
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Haha, Asher is using the same Winamp skin as me. Good taste

Anyways, since I only get full albums on my comp nowadays, they're organized like so:

Artist/
---Year - Album/
------Artist - ## - Title.mp3

The album cover resides in the album's folder and is named folder.jpg

I accomplish all of this with Tag&Rename, which lets me look up the album info on Amazon and then rename the files and folder properly with 2 button clicks.

I also use Guidua to generate pretty lists of all my music that looks like so:

code:
    BT                                                       |       |        |        |      |        
        1996 - Ima                                           |       |        |        |      |        
            Disc 1                                           |     9 |  101Mb |  67:00 |  MP3 | -aps   
            Disc 2                                           |     4 |  108Mb |  71:40 |  MP3 | -aps   
        1999 - Movement in Still Life [UK Limited]           |       |        |        |      |        
            Disc 1                                           |    11 |  111Mb |  73:57 |  MP3 | -aps   
            Disc 2                                           |     7 | 83.7Mb |  58:03 |  MP3 | -aps   
        2000 - Movement in Still Life                        |    11 | 84.7Mb |  56:38 |  MP3 | -aps   
        2000 - Never Gonna Come Back Down                    |     5 | 60.1Mb |  39:51 |  MP3 | -aps   
        2001 - R&R                                           |       |        |        |      |        
            Disc 1                                           |    11 |  124Mb |  73:56 |  MP3 | -aps   
            Disc 2                                           |    11 |  113Mb |  70:07 |  MP3 | -aps   
        2003 - Emotional Technology                          |    13 |  120Mb |  78:21 |  MP3 | -aps   
        2004 - The Technology EP                             |     6 | 69.0Mb |  42:53 |  MP3 | -aps   
    Five Iron Frenzy                                         |       |        |        |      |        
        1996 - Upbeats & Beatdowns                           |    15 | 68.8Mb |  47:27 |  MP3 | -aps   
        1997 - Our Newest Album Ever!                        |    13 | 69.2Mb |  50:57 |  MP3 | -aps   
        1998 - Quantity Is Job 1 [EP]                        |    17 | 55.8Mb |  40:41 |  MP3 | -aps   
        1999 - Proof That the Youth Are Revolting            |    18 |  100Mb |  71:49 |  MP3 | -aps   
        2000 - All the Hype That Money Can Buy               |    15 | 69.7Mb |  45:17 |  MP3 | -aps   
        2001 - Five Iron Frenzy 2 - Electric Boogaloo        |    12 | 59.8Mb |  39:28 |  MP3 | -aps   
        2003 - Cheeses                                       |    34 | 77.3Mb |  56:16 |  MP3 | 192 C  
        2003 - The End is Near                               |    14 |  117Mb |  79:21 |  MP3 | -aps   
        2004 - The End is Here                               |    19 |  118Mb |  78:51 |  MP3 | -aps   

Hooray for being obsessive about mp3 organization

	25-02-2005 12:42									#9
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I do the each artist/band gets a directory thing.

Somewhat OT, but somewhat related... is there any way to make Winamp play in surround? I play a particular file in WMP and get it through all 6 speakers, but play the same file in Winamp and only get it through the sub and two front speakers. Aside from thaqt, I like everything about Winamp much better than any other player I've tried, so any help would be much appreciated.

	25-02-2005 13:20									#10
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Directories for each artist, and file names are the song title. I don't bother with album structure, and let Winamp take care of that.

	25-02-2005 13:54									#11
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[Genre] \ [DVD it is backed up on] \ [Last Name, First Name - Year of Release - Album Title] \ [Song]

E.g. Jazz \ DVD A \ Griffin, Johnny - 1959 - The Little Giant \ Johnny Griffin - The Little Giant - 01 - Olive Refractions

	25-02-2005 14:13									#12
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[Continent] \ [Genre] \ [Song] generally. If it's albums they go in separate directories as well.

E.g. North America\Freestyle\Shannon - Let the Music Play.mp3

	25-02-2005 14:16									#13
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quote: Originally posted by MRT144 genre/artist/album

	25-02-2005 15:03									#14
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oooh thats some groovy skin that asher has....*wonders whats its name*

hmmm, one of the problems I have is that I have alot of anime songs that I'd like to sort by artist as well as by what series it is. (since I tend to remember songs by relation to anime as opposed to its actual name)

Currently my organization is /genre/artist or /genre/anime series/

	25-02-2005 15:57									#15
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currently it's

[artist] / [album]

but it will soon be

[dvdbackup id] / [artist] / [album]

	25-02-2005 15:59									#16
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[artist]\[year], [album] ([medium], [label])\[tracknr] - [artist] - [title].mp3

each directory also has an empty file showing the encoder, bitrate and stereo mode

example:
"lame 3.93 180-188kbps joint stereo vbr"

	25-02-2005 17:26									#17
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My itunes is organized by album, alphabetically. So Byrne's "Rei Momo " immediately follows Bowie's "Reality".

	25-02-2005 18:21									#18
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quote: Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia itunes

Yeah, that's what I use too. It sorts everything automatically. I have everything sorted alphabetically by artist.

But I've also created specific playlists based on mood. So I have playlists named "fun", "sad", "optimistic",
"cool", "romantic" and "worship". That way I can listen to certain music depending on what mood I am in.

	25-02-2005 18:33									#19
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Currently an absolute horrific mishmash of my method of:

General Music Folder/Artist/Album/Song

And my friend's (who I just got a lot of music off of) system of:

General Music Folder/Alphabetical Letter/Album/Song

It's taking me ages to bring order to his chaos.

	25-02-2005 18:36									#20
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I sort them by \artist\album.

	25-02-2005 22:58									#21
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I just sort them by artist. One folder for each artist

	25-02-2005 23:01									#22
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\letter\Artist\Title.

as in:

\H\Hay, Colin\Overkill
\H\Haddaway\What Is Love
\Cl-D\Clannad\Trathnona Beng Areir

	26-02-2005 01:19									#23
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Album directory within artist directory within general muics folder. I don't assign an artist directory until I have about 10 songs by them.

	26-02-2005 01:33									#24
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alphabetically of courese

	26-02-2005 01:37									#25
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I've just been using artist names as subfolders for now, though when I find dupes between CDs (i.e. with live/best-of CDs) I add the CD names as well. I've almost got every CD I own ripped now, putting me up to almost 1200 tunes.

And for the Linux users out there, I highly recommend madman. Not only do you get a database view of things (artist - album - track, the usual filters), you get to rate all of your songs from 0-5 stars and have those ratings taken into account in its Auto-DJ feature that will generate random playlists for you.

	26-02-2005 01:37									#26
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quote: Originally posted by Asher Voila.

how do you get winamp to do that?

I have winamp, but it just seperates them by artist, it doesn't seem to take into account the album. Pluse it seems so small.

I usually use musicmatch. But I'd like to use winamp, because I think it's less resource intensive (for when I play games with it on the background). I'm not sure about that though.

I used musicmatch to edit all of my tags. Because downloaded songs usually have all the wrong information in the tags. But I haven't edited the actual file names, that would be far too tedious.

	26-02-2005 01:40									#27
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I have my 'files in one huge windows folder. they are there in alphabetical order. easy and simple, and quick too. I use winamp to play them.

	26-02-2005 01:41									#28
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quote: Originally posted by Andemagne I have my 'files in one huge windows folder. they are there in alphabetical order. easy and simple, and quick too. I use winamp to play them.

all of mine are in one folder as well.

You guys don't actually open up the folder to play tunes do you?

I open up the player first, and then find what I want to listen to. So how my folders are set up is not an issue.

	26-02-2005 01:52									#29
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quote: But I've also created specific playlists based on mood. So I have playlists named "fun", "sad", "optimistic", "cool", "romantic" and "worship".

Wot, no "rage"; "bitterness"; "homicidal mania"?

You just aren't normal.

	26-02-2005 02:01									#30
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I don't bother organizing mine, they're all in one big folder. iTunes does the rest.

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