Best way to organize MP3s?

[Cfour]

Well right now I have them ordered by Rap, Hip-Hop, etc... but sometimes I have trouble distinguishing between music like Alternative and Rock.. you know? I'm thinking of organizing them by artist now. How do all of you have yours organized?

Tony

 

[Supermercado]

I have a folder for each letter of the alphabet and within each folder I have a folder for each artist. I used to just have one huge folder, but that got way too big to manage.

 

[Dedpuhl]

I organize mine like this:

Full Albums
Techno
Comedy
Classical
Other MP3s


I lump rap, hip-hop, metal, etc. together to avoid any confusion. I also use " [ ] " for the name of the singer/band to keep some order in the folders...

 

[Scarpozzi]

I only listen to "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion so I don't have to organize my mp3.

It's always playing in WinAmp.

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: SuperCommando
I have a folder for each letter of the alphabet and within each folder I have a folder for each artist. I used to just have one huge folder, but that got way too big to manage.

Ditto. Each song is labelled Artist>Album Title>Track #>Song Title so you just click "sort by name" to find what you're after.

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi
I only listen to "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion so I don't have to organize my mp3.

It's always playing in WinAmp.

Is this some kind of new-age death penalty that I'm not aware of or something?

 

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi
I only listen to "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion so I don't have to organize my mp3.

It's always playing in WinAmp.

lmao

and to answer the question, i hit ctrl+L, down to protonradio and enjoy

 

[Scarpozzi]

Is this some kind of new-age death penalty that I'm not aware of or something?

Are you cracking on my music??? BOY???

 

[911paramedic]

I only have a few, but as far as organizing I would go with something like this:

rock_title_artist
rock_alternative_title_artist
rock_acid_title_artist

Put the catagory, followed by a sub-catagory, then the details. Rap will never get mixed up with rock, or trance, etc. You can view them quickly that way and it should work well.

 

[yobarman]

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi
I only listen to "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion so I don't have to organize my mp3.

It's always playing in WinAmp.

thats the gayest thing i've ever heard..

 

[Scarpozzi]

Originally posted by: yobarman

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi
I only listen to "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion so I don't have to organize my mp3.

It's always playing in WinAmp.

thats the gayest thing i've ever heard..

Yeah....ain't it? (it was a joke )

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi

Is this some kind of new-age death penalty that I'm not aware of or something?

Are you cracking on my music??? BOY???

/grabs Scarpozzi's Celine CD, throws it on ground, pees on it


Whadda you think, BOYEEEE!?!?!?

 

[conjur]

Genre or Decade, then Artist/Album/Track #-Song Title

 

[Scarpozzi]

Originally posted by: Fausto1

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi

Is this some kind of new-age death penalty that I'm not aware of or something?

Are you cracking on my music??? BOY???

/grabs Scarpozzi's Celine CD, throws it on ground, pees on it


Whadda you think, BOYEEEE!?!?!?

Funny that you say that. I used to have the Celine Dion Greatest Hits cd... I bought it from a used cd store for like $5 in 1998... I started dating this girl and she grabbed it from my cd case and threw it out the window of my car in Pennsylvania (we're from TN). I asked her what was up with that because I hadn't played it or anything... She just threw my cd away. I guess she didn't like Celine much.

 

[spaceman]

era/genre is usually how i do mine 70's classic,80's metal etc.etc.

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi

Originally posted by: Fausto1

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi

Is this some kind of new-age death penalty that I'm not aware of or something?

Are you cracking on my music??? BOY???

/grabs Scarpozzi's Celine CD, throws it on ground, pees on it


Whadda you think, BOYEEEE!?!?!?

Funny that you say that. I used to have the Celine Dion Greatest Hits cd... I bought it from a used cd store for like $5 in 1998... I started dating this girl and she grabbed it from my cd case and threw it out the window of my car in Pennsylvania (we're from TN). I asked her what was up with that because I hadn't played it or anything... She just threw my cd away. I guess she didn't like Celine much.

Yes, but did she pee on it first? Pics? :Q

Celine has an amazing voice, but I just can't get around the fact that she's a complete freak with zero grasp on reality.

 

[911paramedic]

I only have two so I organize them like this:

Millie vanillie
vanilla ice

 

[UNCjigga]

OMG I was just about to post on this! Last night I discovered that if I organized all my albums into their own folders with Windows XP, and then I set each folder's content settings to 'Music Albums', Windows XP will automatically find the cover art for the album and set that as the folder image!!!!!!! Go try it!!!!!!

 

[johneetrash]

MP3s\
......Albums\
..............Artist - Album Name
....................[track number] - Artist - Song Title.mp3
......Catagories\
..............Hip Hop\Artist - Song Title.mp3
..............Rock\Artist - Song Title.mp3
..............Other\Artist - Song Title.mp3

 

[Orsorum]

I have one folder for each artist... I think I should reorganize it, though (alphabetical by first letter).

 

[CJZ]

I organize based on categories and subcategories. It's the easiest way to get to the file you want.

Classical
----Instrumental
--------Mahler
----Opera & Choral
--------Handel

etc...

 

[xSauronx]

ive only got about 700 or so
3 folders
music/songs
comedy
classical music

artist name - track name

dont care about the album name or anything else, and with only 700 its pretty easy to keep up with em all

/me wants broadband

 

[QTPie]

I put them in a folder with Artist-Song Name.mp3 and another one with Song Name-Artist.mp3. Although it takes double space but it's very fast to search.

 

[SandLizard]

the other day i was looking through my collection and wondering how the hell ricky martin got in there. i bet in the wonderful days before i realized what kazaa can do to you that an insidious p2p virus automatically updated my collection with the wonderful musings of "she bangs"

but, my collection, which I can't see how *anyone* can do it anyway else (read: my way is better...heh)

artist name folder (last, first)
- song ( artist[last,first] - song title ) *all* lowercase

in the event of covers and live and acoustic versions, use -example- (live, acoustic) after song name.

but, alas, i doubt anyone sees the brilliance of what i do. (and besides, i only have about 1600 total, so my way isn't too out of control)

-sandlizard
--to pee or not to pee, on celine dion's cd....that is the question

ps - i also had a girlfriend toss something out that she didn't like, but it wasn't celine dion, it was me