How do you organize your MP3s?

[Kenny]

I think it's time for me to organize my MP3s...They're all stuck in random titled folders right now, and they're getting really cluttered. I'm sure I have triples and quadruples now. I'm gonna get software to take care of the duplicates, but I don't know how I'm gonna be organizing them yet.

How do you do it? By genre or artist?

 

[conjur]

How do you??

Typically, by decade (60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s) and some genres (Jazz, Blues, Classical) and U2 has its own folder

 

[crisp82]

1 big folder, then i just arrange my playlists

 

[Aharami]

artist - name (DJ who mixed it)

 

[Aharami]

but generally by genre (slow/romantic/somber/rock/rap/trance/sountracks/etc)

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Mine are all in the My Music folder then listed in order by artisit alphabetically.

 

[Kenny]

Originally posted by: crisp82
1 big folder, then i just arrange my playlists

Hmmmm that sounds good. I've never used the playlists, just drag in whatever I want to listen to. I'll definitely give that a shot.

 

[anxi80]

one big folder. artist - song title. 1 playlist ('j' in winamp is my friend)

for albums, each has its own seperate folder and its own playlist for that album.

 

[luv2chill]

I stopped getting singles a few years ago... my library consists of full albums and the organization goes like this:

Genre --> Artist (Last name first) --> Album --> Tracks plus cover art

Works well for me! I just wish there were some cool solution to cross-reference within genres.

l2c

 

[BatmanNate]

I don't have any singles, just albums so they are all in the MP3 folder labeled in sub folders as Artist - Title. It works pretty well for me, I only have around 20,000 or so loaded right now. Most the stuff I don't listen to as frequently is backed up on disc.

Edit: The tracks themselves are labeled Aritist - Track # - Title. I encode them all in 192k True Stereo with LAME.

 

[DnetMHZ]

I don't have any music files on my PC

 

[johneetrash]

D:\MP3s\Albums\Artist Name\Artist-Album Name\## - Artist Name - Song Title.mp3

example

a fall farewell - lost in dreams of you

D:\MP3s\Albums\A Fall Farewell\A Fall Farewell - The Impermanence Of Beauty\04 - A Fall Farewell - Lost In Dreams Of You.mp3

 

[notfred]

iTunes does it for me.

 

[codeyf]

Originally posted by: Aharami
but generally by genre (slow/romantic/somber/rock/rap/trance/sountracks/etc)

Well, actually, IF I were one to pirate music in the form of mp3's, that would be how I would arrange them. However I would also have a folder lableled "complete cd's" which had individual folders within it with full CD's (ie Charlies Angels Coundtrack, Norah Jones, etc)

 

[Anubis]

My Music -> Band Name-> album Name -> Songs

G:\My Music\Artist Name\Album Name\Artist Name - ## - Song Title.mp3

G:\My Music\A Perfect Circle\Thirteenth Step\A Perfect Circle - 01 - The Package

full listing here

http://www.dickinson.edu/~skillina/Musak.txt

 

[EyeMWing]

H:\Music\MP3\$Artist\$Album\$TrackNo - $Title.mp3

Or for non-album releases or whatever, I have
H:\Music\MP3\$Artist\Misc\$Title.mp3

And a similar convention for songs of unknown artist (Which gets interesting - H:\Music\MP3\Unknown Artist\Unknown Track\$RandInt.mp3)

 

[Supermercado]

I've got 6 folders, I think, #-C, D-G, etc. Inside each folder, I've got folders for full albums with the year (Master of Puppets by Metallica is Metallica -1986 - Master Of Puppets) with songs labeled like Metallica - 01 - Battery.mp3. Songs that are not part of albums are just in the #-C or whatever folder with artist and title. And yes, all those Metallica mp3s are ripped by me from my CDs. Heh.

 

[spanky]

alphabetically

 

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: codeyf

Originally posted by: Aharami
but generally by genre (slow/romantic/somber/rock/rap/trance/sountracks/etc)

Well, actually, IF I were one to pirate music in the form of mp3's, that would be how I would arrange them. However I would also have a folder lableled "complete cd's" which had individual folders within it with full CD's (ie Charlies Angels Coundtrack, Norah Jones, etc)

its quite ignorant of u to just assume i pirated those mp3s. yes i have downloaded mp3s but i have not pirated any. i listen mostly to trance and most of the djs who make those mixes give them away for free to get more publicity. either that or i have ripped them onto mp3 from cds that collected b4. a lot more convenient having it in all in one folder rather than different cds.

 

[Viper GTS]

Full albums only, ripped & encoded by us.

T:\Music\Artist\Album\Album - Track # - Track Title.MP3

Viper GTS

 

[Crappopotamus]

i download mostly singles... so its just by chronological order. i have a folder music1. then music2. music3. when the playlist gets too large (160 songs?) or just whenver i feel like it, ill start a new one. *shrug*

also its interesting to see what phases of music i go through its a STORY.

 

[daniel1113]

I place all of the mp3s in the "My Music" folder since it is convenient. Then, if I have a whole album, I organize them in a separate folders "Artist - Album Title" (EXAMPLE: Blue Man Group - The Complex). I name each song "Song Number. Song Title.mp3" (01. Above.mp3). Lastly, I make a *.m3u playlist for each album.

I also have one big folder called "Other" that I place all my random songs. I name them as follows:

Artist - Song Title.mp3 (Eric Clapton - My Father's Eyes.mp3)

 

[thirtythree]

cds I've ripped are put into folders titled 'artist name - cd name.' other songs are put into an 'other' folder. if I have lots of songs by a particular artist I'll give them their own folder. like so:

music
> cds
> > artist name - cd name
> other
> > artist name

 

[CommCR]

simply by name....i don't have that many so i don't need anything too complex.

 

[edro]

By extension name...

Example: I have a *.MP3 folder..... and..... well..... that's it.