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MP3 Naming

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Originally posted by: GeekDrew
At the moment:

Artist/Album/Artist - Song Name.ext

I'm eventually going to migrate to:

artist/album/artist-song_name.ext
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WHY MIGRATE? Ugh I hate it when people put the underscores in MP3s, just seems pointless. And if the song is really that long, maybe you should trim the file name then..

 
Originally posted by: Brainonska511
For artists where I only have one song, it goes directly into the "My Music" folder and it is named like: Artist - Track Name

For artists where I have more than one song, it goes into an "Artist" folder within "My Music" and tracks are named like: Artist - Track Name.
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Well I do it First letter of artist (like L for Lucious Jackson) -->Artist name--->Album

And in the case bainonska mentioned I do First letter of artist ---> Arist name and if there REALLY isn't any music other than that one song from that artist then I do First letter of artist and thats it.
 
Originally posted by: Shawn
Originally posted by: jtusa
Originally posted by: Shawn
Artist - Album - Track Number - Track Title
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I'm leaning in this direction and then having a directory for each artist, instead of directory for each artist, plus subdirectories for each album. This is mainly for at-a-glance selection.

Tags are already set.
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This is how I do it...

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I use Tag&Rename to rename all of my files and folders in that format.
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That looks really nice with the years like that.
 
Originally posted by: goku
Originally posted by: GeekDrew
At the moment:

Artist/Album/Artist - Song Name.ext

I'm eventually going to migrate to:

artist/album/artist-song_name.ext
Click to expand...
WHY MIGRATE? Ugh I hate it when people put the underscores in MP3s, just seems pointless. And if the song is really that long, maybe you should trim the file name then..
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Because I hate spaces in filenames? Personal preference.

Why on earth would I want to trim the filename?
 
When I rip from EAC, it's like this:

MP3s\<Artist>\<Year> <Album>\<#> <Title>.mp3

Alpha by Artist and albums by year of release...then I use Tag & Rename which automates the entire process so I don't have to fill in anything for the id tag.

When I'm scrolling through an artist with a lot of albums (RUSH or Genesis), I can go by when the albums were released instead of alpha.

I've ripped every CD I own (600+) and can find everything easily.

~AJ
 
Originally posted by: GeekDrew
Originally posted by: goku
Originally posted by: GeekDrew
At the moment:

Artist/Album/Artist - Song Name.ext

I'm eventually going to migrate to:

artist/album/artist-song_name.ext
Click to expand...
WHY MIGRATE? Ugh I hate it when people put the underscores in MP3s, just seems pointless. And if the song is really that long, maybe you should trim the file name then..
Click to expand...

Because I hate spaces in filenames? Personal preference.

Why on earth would I want to trim the filename?
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Because it's not like you put underscores in your titles, do you? Also file names shouldn't matter too much if you've got decently tagged files.
 
Originally posted by: goku
Originally posted by: GeekDrew
Originally posted by: goku
Originally posted by: GeekDrew
At the moment:

Artist/Album/Artist - Song Name.ext

I'm eventually going to migrate to:

artist/album/artist-song_name.ext
Click to expand...
WHY MIGRATE? Ugh I hate it when people put the underscores in MP3s, just seems pointless. And if the song is really that long, maybe you should trim the file name then..
Click to expand...

Because I hate spaces in filenames? Personal preference.

Why on earth would I want to trim the filename?
Click to expand...

Because it's not like you put underscores in your titles, do you? Also file names shouldn't matter too much if you've got decently tagged files.
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No, I don't put underscores in titles -- that would be stupid, since it's meta data, and can be formatted accordingly. Files names, however, I prefer to have the most compatible for filesystem use, on multiple platforms. I've found that the easiest way to get close to that is to put underscores in file names, and lower-case all characters. That makes it easier for me to type it, too.

Since you mention tagging, I assume you just search your music tags via your preferred library, and never actually look for music on the filesystem?

Regardless, the tagging on my files is subpar, at best.
 
artist-album-track no-track name.wav
artist-album-track no-track name.flac
artist-album-track no-track name.wv
artist-album-track no-track name.cda
whocares.mp3
all mp3 belong in recycle bin!!!
 
Originally posted by: Shawn
Originally posted by: jtusa
Originally posted by: Shawn
Artist - Album - Track Number - Track Title
Click to expand...

I'm leaning in this direction and then having a directory for each artist, instead of directory for each artist, plus subdirectories for each album. This is mainly for at-a-glance selection.

Tags are already set.
Click to expand...

This is how I do it...

1
2

I use Tag&Rename to rename all of my files and folders in that format.
Click to expand...


Nice looking setup! I also use Tag&Rename. Great piece of software.
 
Track number - Track title. Stored in the directory of the album...Artist (last name first) - Release year - Album title.
 
Artist - Track Title (maybe quality or date of recoring behind that).

However, all the MP3's I record are like this:
Demo/Final/Whatever - DateOfRecording - PlaceOfRecording - SongName

I play the guitar 🙂.
 
Originally posted by: Sqube
All the relevant information is in the ID3 tags.
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Yeah, but it's alright when I'm not the one manually renaming the files 😉
Just have MP3Tag do it based on the ID3 tags. Useful for file-based MP3 players.
 
The way Itunes have it setup:

track# title with a space between the two placed under the album folder under the artist's name.
 
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