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POLL: How do you sort your music?

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Also feel free to post other details. Over the course of time my MO for naming, tagging, and sorting has changed, and I'm about to undertake the massive challenge of renaming & retagging all my music to conform to one standard and renaming the directories it's in. I was thinking by year, but it occurred to me that alpha might be better. I have a main dir with a subdir for each album, named "Band name - Year - Album name", as winamp sorts by directory & filename, but might take the year portion out for alpha. Curious how others do it.
 
Chronologically in explorer, alphabetically in Winamp. The albums are in folders named "Artist - Year - Album Name" and the tracks inside are "Artist - Track Number - Title.mp3." All my id3 tags are just "Artist - Title," though, so Winamp sorts them alphabetically. Most of the time, I just listen to stuff in random order. If I want to listen to an album straight through, I just open up the album's folder, select all the songs and hit enter to add them to a new playlist. When I'm done, I just load up my all.m3u playlist and continue on my merry way.
 
I USED TO maticulously but now I jsut itunes do it and fix any broken tags.....all this after having ravaged my library with musiz brainz tag&rename and a few other over the years
 
Alpabetically and all the albums I have are named "Artist - Album Name" then inside those folders is the music from that album.
 
Why not just redo all the id3 tags and use iTunes? It's easier to browse/search music in iTunes than navigating by folder and file names.
 
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
I USED TO maticulously but now I jsut itunes do it and fix any broken tags.....all this after having ravaged my library with musiz brainz tag&rename and a few other over the years
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Heheh, one benefit of mirroring my collection on another drive... I fubar'd my filenames (all 6,000) with tagscanner... so I just deleted the whole thing and copied it back over from my backup & games drive 🙂

Originally posted by: way
Why not just redo all the id3 tags and use iTunes? It's easier to browse/search music in iTunes than navigating by folder and file names.
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Never... It installs the malware known as QuickTime and I find it far easier to manage my collection with a file manager, not to mention having more options that way. Not up for Jukebox either, it's too bloated. I just installed Foobar2000, but haven't used it yet.
 
sorted as Artist -> Album -> Song in the files structure. The problem is with songs that are collaborations, why the heck didn't the people who wrote the tag format put more than one artist field?! As a side note, if everyone took care of tagging things properly, an mp3s would be much easier to handle as a database (ie chuck everything in one folder and let the database front-end handle everything).
 
I try to organize with a folder for each artist/band and then inside it a folder either with artist-album name or just album name. Inside that are my tracks which are track number, artist, name of song, album name.

I use iTunes exclusively as my mp3 player but I would never think to have all my music on the main library folder. I would hate to sift through 15,000 songs. I have about 300 only on my main library. That's good enough for me.
 
I usually only have full albums and tend to have full discographies of the artists I like. Chronological has always seemed like the most orderly way to organize it.

Artist\Year - Album\Track# - Song Title.mp3
 
I have an Artist folder, then each album is named "Year - Name" (ex. 1983- Kill 'Em All) with the tracks named "01- Name" and so on. Works well without having to rely on iTunes not messing things up.
 
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