How do you organize your MP3's?

[DarkManX]

?

 

[Robert01]

alphabetical

For example:

a
b
n
e
f

 

[uncouth]

I don't

but seriously, by genre (pop,oldies,classical,moviethemes,suck) and then by artist name

 

[ltk007]

I don't, they are all in one big folder.

 

[FrogDog]

If this is what you mean, I make the file read, Band - Song.mp3

 

[Regine]

I have them organized in folders by artist and album, if that's what you mean.

 

[prodigy]

I don't have any because they're illegal

 

[Regine]

It's not illegal if you download them from a band's website, now is it?

What about making cd's that you have bought into mp3's without distributing them. Is that considered illegal or not?

 

[kami]

I don't.

But I have a bunch of organized playlists for certain bands, etc.

 

/archive/mp3s/full albums
/archive/mp3s/singles/christmas
/archive/mp3s/singles/heavy
/archive/mp3s/singles/pop
/archive/mp3s/singles/punk & hardcore
/archive/mp3s/singles/rock

 

[Pretender]

I don't. They all go in one folder (except for full albums, which get their own). I then sort alphabetically, and most mp3s I download are in the "Artist - Song.mp3" format, and it's easy to find a specific song then.

 

[Killbat]

My music is categorized by type. I have folders named Funk, Rock, Thump, Trance, etc., and every file is in "Artist - Song.mp3" format.

 

[Gatsby]

I have them listed alphabetically by band then by song.

Gatsby

 

[snow patrol]

I have a seperate partition for my MP3's now, and I organise them in folders - one folder for each band, and then in alphabetical order.

 

[prodigy]

Oh actually I do have an mp3.

C:\program files\winamp\demo.mp3

 

[BigSmooth]

toolgirl: no, neither of those things is illegal. mp3s are not illegal in and of themselves.

 

[BowDown]

bandtitle space dash space songtitle

example:

Creed - What If.mp3

That way they are in band order and alphebetical song order.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

On my HD: drive:\mp3s\band\track
On CD-r disks: Similar types of music is lumped on the same disk, then band\track

Edit: and I do own CDs for most of my MP3s, all my MP3 CD-r disks (combined) are cheaper to replace than any of my music CDs. And they're easier to carry with me to listen to at work.

 

[GopherMobile]

I have a folder with subfolders for full CDs I have
I have a folder with subfolders of bad songs from those full CDs(so if I ever decide I like 'em again I don't have to re-mp3)
I have a folder of songs I like that aren't from full CDs
And I have a folder of bad songs not from CDs that I have for no reason in particular

The format is Artist - Songname; for non-full CDs
And Artist - CD title abbreviation (like DDDDC for Dirty Deads Done Dirt Cheap) - Songname; for songs from full CD's.

And they're all alphabetical.

 

[Schola]

I have one giant folder called /mp3 then they are arranged by artist and thats it
and they follow the standard Artist - Song.mp3
The only folder sub divided by album is the Aphex Twin directory.

Schola

 

[beat mania]

Here's how mine are organized:

mp3 CDs are organized by genre, follow by number: ie jpopMP3_20
Inside the CD are directories of artists, with subdir of album name, follow by bitrate. ie Hamasaki Ayumi\Surreal (320_2ch)
after I burn a CD, I do a tree, and a dir/w/s of the CD's root, > into a file.
I burn 2 copies each time, one for use, one for offsite backup.
and then I have an excel file with different worksheets for different genre, all the albums listed in A-Z order, the bit rate, the CD name it is located in, and a hyperlink into the text file with the CD's content.

 

[TonyH]

This works for me
Drive:\Genre\Artist\Song Title.mp3

 

[Imported]

They're all in one big folder..

 

[pac1085]

C:\My Documents\My Music\Cradle of Filth - Midian\01 - At The Gates of Midian.mp3

Thats basicly how I have them all (~150 full albums )

 

[Regine]

Bigsmooth:
Thanks, that's what I thought.