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Origanizing MP3s

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jonMEGA

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I was wondering how everyone here origanizes their large mp3 collection. I have more than 300 gb of mp3s and I'm having a tough time. I could go with genre but there is alot of cross-genre groups/bands.
 
I just thow them all in iTunes.... but then I've got about 2% of what you have. How in the hell can you lsiten to 300gigs of music?
 
I had to do this when I got my iPod and figured out it all had to be edited perfectly to show up correctly on the iPod. What a pain.


I like Tag&Rename, but I used it when I had little RAM and I'm not sure if thats why it would take forever to load. It works well because you can highlight a group and change it or you can individually change parts of the ID3 tag.
 
I think you can let Windows Media Player add in all the extra genre/band/track/title info into the ID3v1/v2 tags. However, it scares me so I never allowed that option. Maybe I'll try it now.

I usually try to collect whole albums and not just singles. The whole albums are organized into a folder named %band - %albumTitle. All the single mp3s are just thrown in another folder.
 
Jon, I started running all mine through google. Basically I'd grab a band name, pump it into google +genre and read a few entries and find a conensus. Then I'd move all the mp3s to a directory created with that genre name. Of course, I havn't finished and don't know if I ever will because it is a ton of effort.

I used to have all mine pretty well sorted into like 5 generic genres, but over time things just kept getting worse as I added groups that didn't exactly fit into rock rap or techno...
 
I have Tag & Rename and I use it on a daily basis 🙂

But the problem is that some artists are in two genres.
 
I just name my files "Artist Name (minus a preceding "The") - Song Name.mp3"... dump 'em all in the same dir.
 
Well if you weren't stealing them and you were ripping them instead, you could use whatever media program to organize them nice and neat like, without typing a damn thing.
 
Originally posted by: hjo3
I just name my files "Artist Name (minus a preceding "The") - Song Name.mp3"... dump 'em all in the same dir.
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Exactly how I have been doing it for 7+ years.
 
Good lord 300gb? I have 5 and thought that was a lot.. Personally I have them all in /mp3, singles right in that directory, full albums in a subdirectory <artist name - album name>.
 
Artist - Album - Track Number - Song Title.mp3

or

Album - Track Number - Artist - Song Title.mp3
if the album isn't a single artist.


Directory for each Artist.

Then I use MP3Mystic to listen to them at work.
 
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
X:\Music\Artist\Album
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Bingo, except I have a whole MP3 partition, so

X:\Artist\Album

if the artist has more than one track, If I only have on track for that artist, they go in the root.
 
Thuswise:

-
/mnt/music/SteveCole# ls
.
..
01-NY LA.mp3
02-Everyday.mp3
03-Tonight its On.mp3
04-Love Letter.mp3
05-Off Broadway.mp3
06-Interlude IV.mp3
07-Every Little Thing.mp3
08-Missing You.mp3
09-Close Your Eyes Free Your Mind.mp3
10-Keep it Live.mp3
-
 
right now I have it as

x:\artist - album\artist - tracknumber - song name.mp3

for soundtracks: x:\name of soundtrack\artist - tracknumber - song name.mp3

various artist cds: x:\album name\track artist - track number - song name.mp3
 
Originally posted by: minendo
Originally posted by: hjo3
I just name my files "Artist Name (minus a preceding "The") - Song Name.mp3"... dump 'em all in the same dir.
Click to expand...

Exactly how I have been doing it for 7+ years.
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same here of course I have less than 2gb of music anyway
 
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