Origanizing MP3s

[jonMEGA]

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.

 

[notfred]

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?

 

[nakedfrog]

X:\Music\Artist\Album

 

[SuepaFly]

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.

 

[brxndxn]

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.

 

[skace]

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...

 

[jonMEGA]

I have Tag & Rename and I use it on a daily basis

But the problem is that some artists are in two genres.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
X:\Music\Artist\Album

winner

 

[Emrys]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
X:\Music\Artist\Album

 

[hjo3]

I just name my files "Artist Name (minus a preceding "The") - Song Name.mp3"... dump 'em all in the same dir.

 

[Ness]

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.

 

[loup garou]

WMP organizes them for me.

 

[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.

Exactly how I have been doing it for 7+ years.

 

[jonMEGA]

Originally posted by: Emrys

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
X:\Music\Artist\Album

I've been doing this too and have run out of space on the drive......

 

[Ryan]

Artist - Album - Track Number - Song title.mp3

All in the same directory

 

[Gurck]

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>.

 

[Bootprint]

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.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
X:\Music\Artist\Album

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.

 

[Chaotic42]

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
-

 

[fs5]

iTunes

 

[PowerMacG5]

iTunes. And how in the fvck do you have 300 GB of music as mp3s?

 

[Nanotech]

X:\Music\Albums\Artist\(Artist's Album)
X:\Music\Live Shows\Artist\(Show)
X:\Music\Miscellaneous\...

 

[jonMEGA]

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

 

[Fiveohhh]

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.

Exactly how I have been doing it for 7+ years.

same here of course I have less than 2gb of music anyway

 

[slpaulson]

Originally posted by: Emrys

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
X:\Music\Artist\Album