How do you list your music?

[Tempestv]

I just have lots of country.

Definitely a cultural thing.

In Texas, you have to actually search for a station that's either non-country or non-tejano.

Same here

Except that I'm not such a fan of country
or at least what passes for country today

Just my luck that it seems that every radio on every jobsite is tuned to country. I keep hearing the same songs all day long. I have heard some songs 3 times in an hour. even when it's something I like, it gets old quick

as for how I organize my music, I have a folder in my Media folder (movies, music, ebooks, pictures, ect.) for music, then I have folders for each artist. if I have all of the albums from that aritst, I note it by writing it in the folder name- (ie Nightwish- Discography) In the folder for the artist, I have folders for each album as well as songs that don't fit into an album (live perfomances, ect.) any music videos go in a seperate folder. songs by two or more artists (for example, the riding with the king album, BB king and Eric Clapton) or by artists that I only have one or two songs by go in a seperate folder, marked Assorted (music type) example- assorted blues. again, I have folders for combinations that I have a lot of, which contain folders for two artist albums

compleated, the full filename for the song riding with the king is
F:\Media\Music\Assorted Blues\BB King and Eric Clapton\Riding With The Blues\Riding With The Blues.mp3

and my work is cut out for me becuse I have a lot of music to organize since I just downloaded it.

[Sigurd]

I organise all my music the same way, and then just drag the folder into itunes and it makes my playlist for that album its how ive always done it and i find it easyest.

Artist Name - Album Name

For the just odd songs i have a folder called Other Songs, then just put that into itunes.

[worldpease]

Mines like this.

Cool man, I have my music just like that too,
except that mine is not Satanic...
Just kidding man.

[FreeDoom]

I just put my music in 1 folder called music and then with respective sub-folders.

Artist - Album - Length

[brenda]

I tried sorting it by genre but that didn't really work because the divisions between genres can sometimes be to blured and it becomes too messy with loads of sub genres so I backtracked to good oldfashioned alphabetical by artist (albums & tracks chronological)

[B.Helto]

artist/album/[track number] - [title]

still trying to come up with a consistant way to file comps & soundtracks

like:

VA (or OST)/album/[track number] - [artist] - [title]

[mansoorali]

i have also made folders acccording to Categories like RnB,Rap,POP..........

[Necrophag]

Mines like this.

Cool man, I have my music just like that too,
except that mine is not Satanic...
Just kidding man.

lol

[cno81]

I organise my to this convention;

Music\Albums\B\Beatles, The\1963 - Please Please Me

I don't particularly like organising music by genres because more often than not an album can fit into one or more catagories and even more often, other users (on soulseek) incorrectly catagorise their music. I suppose the advantage of the genre system is you can avoid completely the heavy metal or country, for example

[sickofcake]

I tag all my files will Helium Music Manager.

C:\Music\Artist\The Misfits\(1995) Static Age
============================================
01 - Static Age.mp3
02 - TV Casualty.mp3
03 - Some Kinda Hate.mp3
04 - Last Caress.mp3
05 - Return of the Fly.mp3
06 - Hybrid Moments.mp3
07 - We Are 138.mp3
08 - Teenagers From Mars.mp3
09 - Come Back.mp3
10 - Angelfuck.mp3
11 - Hollywood Babylon.mp3
12 - Attitude.mp3
13 - Bullet.mp3
14 - Theme For a Jackal.mp3
15 - She.mp3
16 - Spinal Remains.mp3
17 - In the Doorway.mp3
============================================

C:\Music\ contains the folders:

Artist
Audio Books
Comedy
Compilations
Genres
Playlists
Soundtracks
Tributes


I use the 'Genres' folder to put files that have not been tagged correctly or are untagged. I have them formated so I can run Helium Music Manager automatically and it will tag everything perfectly. Here's an example of a recent album I bought and ripped but haven't tagged yet.

C:\Music\Genres\Folk\Greg Graffin\(2006) Cold As The Clay\01 - Don't Be Afraid To Run.Mp3

So based simply on the file name and the folder it is in Helium Music Manager will automatically use the folder and file names to tag the Genre, Artist, Year, Album Title, Track Number, Track Title.

And since all my music is tagged correctly I can browse it by all the genres, year, artist or whatever tag I want with Foobar 2000 or Winamp.