How Do You Organize Your Music?

[- Nightmare -]

I have them in different folders. Like for my Final Fantasy soundtracks, they each have their own dedicated folder.

So how do you organize your tunes? Do you put them in different folders or just leave em' in your shared folder?

[Rip The Jacker]

I just leave them all in one folder. I would organize my music, but I'm too lazy, I just make myself Winamp Playlists. :D

[h121589]

i have all my albums in a folder call Albums and in side the Albums Folder i have seperate folders 4 each album


and 4 jus single songs i have My Shared Folder

[Gutter]

each album is in its own folder inside that artists folder,
complete with album art, winamp playlist, and reviews or notes on release.

:( I do have a few albums with no album art or specific date, but I do my best at researching them.

[Twigboy]

The music player I use seperates all my songs by album,group and shows album cover art next to the track.
Also have the option to select by genre,but been to lazy to organize them that way.

[Adster]

I organise with my brain

[pusher]

For mp3s I seperate songs by artist so I can just pull out the folder and listen to whatever I want.
For CDs I stack them up by whatever I've been in the mood for most at a given moment.

[Samurai]

+ My Music
+ Artist / Album / Track / Title

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[silent VI]

on cd's

[Dark Ride]

Originally posted by Samurai@28 March 2004 - 16:00
+ My Music
+ Artist / Album / Track / Title

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Are you female or gay :o ... or both :lol:

You have a bad music-taste ;)

[TRshady]

Whats wrong with Eminem? :o
Yeah? .... well rock sucks .. screaming suicidial dudes with a record deal! ...
Rap forever .. rap rawks my sawks .. ... rock is crap without the rock and with the c-r-a-p!

:P , nah ... but seriously ... Im an Eminem .. making me feel bad here, lol.
Mine are in folders of artist, and in the folder, is another folder for each album :)

[Nogimics]

Being a SS user I try to have all my music organised very neatly.

I have 3 main folders
Full Albums
Movies OST's
Various

The Full Albums folder is full of folders with the Artist or Band Name, which in turn has an individual folder for every album I have under that artist or band.

Movie OST's is exactly what it says its full of folders named for example like so "Smallville Soundtrack (OST)"

The Various folder is just random tracks which I like.

All my full albums and OST's should have an AMG review as well as a folder.jpg which contains the album cover only.

[lee551]

i have one big folder with everything named nicely. and if i have a whole album downloaded it'll be in a folder, in the folder with everything.

one day i really need to go back through and strictly re-name everything. :music1:

[Formula1]

[QUOTE=Samurai,28 March 2004 - 16:00] + My Music
Are you female or gay :o ... or both :lol:

You have a bad music-taste ;)


Actually i think its you that have a bad music taste. i agree rock [especially punk rock] is just a bunch of wanna be's who put random shit together to just get some publicity, and just wanna get some attention. I agree that there are some rock stars who put some good work into their music, such as linkin park because they ACTUALLY put their mind into it, and spend a good time writing their song. PS , Eminem R0ck5, and Dre, Tupac, Etc.!!!!

[god-of-rock]

Originally posted by TRshady@30 March 2004 - 03:04
Whats wrong with Eminem? :o
Yeah? .... well rock sucks .. screaming suicidial dudes with a record deal! ...
Rap forever .. rap rawks my sawks .. ... rock is crap without the rock and with the c-r-a-p!

:P , nah ... but seriously ... Im an Eminem .. making me feel bad here, lol.
Mine are in folders of artist, and in the folder, is another folder for each album :)
If rap rawk your sawks and rock is crap without the rock, I would suggest you wash your socks....

Both you and formula1 obviously has no idea what rock and roll is about.... most of the ideas behind rap/hip-hop music comes from rock... the contraversy and all that shit... only thing is back in the dawn of rock the contraversy was made by real people with real opinions, theese days it's just a concept those damned hop-hippers use to sell more records...

Now to the actual question I sort my files like this:


D:\Music\Full Albums\Artist\[year] Album (bps)\



Rawk and Rawl

[Formula1]

r0ck ma' c0ck, and stick it in your face. :lol:

[Afronaut]

=Formula1,30 March 2004 - 03:35]
[quote]=Samurai,28 March 2004 - 16:00] + My Music
Are you female or gay  :o  ... or both  :lol:

You have a bad music-taste  ;)


Actually i think its you that have a bad music taste. i agree rock [especially punk rock] is just a bunch of wanna be's who put random shit together to just get some publicity, and just wanna get some attention. I agree that there are some rock stars who put some good work into their music, such as linkin park because they ACTUALLY put their mind into it, and spend a good time writing their song. PS , Eminem R0ck5, and Dre, Tupac, Etc.!!!!

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I could write a lot of stuff about Limpin Fart but i wont...

Why dont we talk about whats Good Music out there instead of dissing ppl based on
what they like?

Well, i guess these kinda threads have some sorta entertaining value,
sure made me laugh but not really for the reasons the author expected.

:cool2:

[Arm]

Originally posted by Formula1@29 March 2004 - 20:35

[QUOTE=Samurai,28 March 2004 - 16:00] + My Music
Are you female or gay :o ... or both :lol:

You have a bad music-taste ;)

rock [especially punk rock] is just a bunch of wanna be's who put random shit together to just get some publicity, and just wanna get some attention.
there are some rock stars who put some good work into their music, such as linkin park because they ACTUALLY put their mind into it, and spend a good time writing their song.
:D Yeah right. Linkin Park are just a bunch of screaming EMO fags with an electric guitar.

And the way Arm organises his albums is has the name of every artist and album in a folder called mp3 albums.

[Adster]

I use my brain to organise

[digmen1]

Great thread, but I wish some of you would stick to the subject.

I have one music folder with a sub folder for each letter of the alphabet so The Rolling Stones go in T, Cliff Richard goes in C, Eminem goes in E, Beyonce goes in B, Dr Hook goes in D. (note my wide tastes !)

I then backup each folder up to a CDR-W every few months as a precaution.

Some letters of the alphabet have to have more than one folder.

I then keep a list of the songs I have in an Access Database that I wrote, so that I can enter details of songs from AMG and then I can see which tracks I need to complete various albums.

I then make up playlists in Foobar (used to use Winamp) of music I like, eg easy listening rock, rock classics, heavy metal, blues, glassical guitar etc etc, so that I can play some music to suit my moods.

I, like one guy above also like to get an AMG biograhy and album reviews, but it is impossible to get all the ones you want or you would have to do it full time !

I can see why some people buy the real CD's there is less work !

Regards

Digby
NZ

[FuNkY CaPrIcOrN]

:P OrangeCD Catalog (http://www.firetongue.com/) :P

[Manny Roscoe]

I have 14 "Genre Folders" in my MP3s folder.

A rap folder, rock folder, videogame music folder, funny mp3s, anime music,etc...

These folders include sub folders.

For example, in my anime music folder, I have a Neon Genesis Evangelion folder, and instead of sorting the songs by album, I have every song for the series all in one folder.

Instead of the file looking like "Neon Gensis Evangelion- 01.- Rei 1
I make it look like this "NGE-Rei 1"
So, I organize my crap like that.

I could go on and on, but it'll take a while to explain how I organize all my mp3s....I wouldnt want to disclose that kind of info here anyway....

Basically, I make it so organized, that the folders are easy to navigate through.

[almostalive2003]

C:\Music\"Artist Name"\"Album Name"\"MP3's

Thats the easiest way i have found to organize my music.

[4th gen]

I've got two Music folders (due to hard drive size constraints). The first (main) folder is 77.8GB.

It's organised thus:

Music\0-M\Artist - Album Name and \N-Z\Artist - Album Name

The second folder is smaller (25GB) and is organised in exactly the same was as above :)

[Afronaut]

Using Orange for teh database, which dont get updated too often,
I dont DL so much music anymore, got pretty much what i need.

I got several HD's in 3 PC's full of stuff, not so well organized.
My shares are a little mess also, but im trying to keep them
as teh norm is in SS.

Im lazy and maybe someday i buy teh dvd-burner and
then maybe organise teh stuff better.

Maybe Babe.

:P

[bilkenter]

:P OrangeCD Catalog (http://www.firetongue.com/) :P
really a cool software :) thanks for this one

[Tasker]

sorted like this, genre -> artist -> year/album title -> track list and covers etc

[musicsavesus]

I just have iTunes set to automatically organize my music. The folders are separated by artist and then album.

[bangang]

I have all my music on a 1TB HD. I have folders for about 70 categories, then I have subcategories in some folders (not by genre, but by label for instance). I have two main folders: burned data and unburned. This way I always have my newer downloads in a separate folder.

I name my album folders all in the same manner: "Artist - year - Album", so I can quickly scan my music database for the album I want. VA (Various Artists, compilations) albums are named VA - Release name (year). It takes a bit of time to do it this way, but now I have a well organized collection, which is really necessary if you have a lot of music.

I rarely use any media library software, because I find my system handier to browse. No problem with 'conflicting' ID3 tags, eg. albums from one artist spread over a bunch of tags (AC/DC, AC-DC, ACDC, AC DC, ...) or various artists compilation albums in the albums list.

[yoco]

My music is under MP3 & Soundtracks folder. Of course every album/artist is under new folder.

[FX2908]

Music Folder\Artist-Album

That's it. :)

[BitHumor]

Music Folder\Artist-Album

That's it. :)

Same for me + different folders for different music kinds.

[backlash]

I also have it organized like this: music folder>artist>album

[ban]

music folder(one for flac and one for mp3) >artist

[alcoholik]

i have folders with different bands, then i just drag the folder to foobar and listen :)

[BubbAblack]

folder music/artist/album

[Ramus]

by what yr their albums are released.

[wish]

All of my music in 1 folder :D

[Peanut]

I do it by/ year/ genre /
what kind of album it is/ mixtape/album/promo
???????????
Its really organize in my opinion

[Smithy]

/Music/Albums/Name of artist/*the records :afro:

[Frizz]

I keep all my regularly listened to audio files in one folder (My Audio). From there the trend is file_type\artist\[year] album. So for example,
C:\My Audio\1 mp3\Cut Copy\[2008] In Ghost Colours

[Elpigle]

I order By genre and What is in my ipod now

[crooked]

/Music HDD/Different Genres/Date/Alphabetic

[Dytzone]

order by genre (house,hip-hop,dance...)

[iM32]

I don't have much music in my PC. I use spotify so everything I have I have put in one folder.

[Popov]

I put all songs into itunes, and then I delete whenever I hear a bad song... Have just about 25gb to go, had about 250gb in the beginning

[EstelleD]

On two partitions, one with some folder with categories, other one for sort.

[r3volut1onx]

i have a partition only 4 that... so ... is not so hard

[t3h_n3wbie]

I organize by HDD>Artist>Album

If I was to start all over again though, I'd also most probably choose to sort by Genre, but I've downloaded way too much to try and organize it all again.

[tgrchan]

sort by artist =)

[aske]

label>year>artists>albums>songs

[hijump]

albums > artists > song

[ketan]

album-song-artist

[dimutri]

Artist>Album>Song

[fengyezi]

I have so many music that sometime i can't find it where to put,so i go to google download again..

[Castronaut]

Each different album has a folder.

In iTunes, each different album has its own playlist.

They're all in one big main folder on my dekstop named "music".

[HINT]

Every singer got his own folder

[Ronnie Coleman]

A picture speaks more than a thousand words:

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I keep all music backuped on DVDs and I copied these because I listened it a lot last few months.

[VinX]

every singer got his own folder

+1

[bizkin]

in Aritsts -> Album -> Track

[scarface]

By genres: house, rap, reggae, r&b, latino, country, jazz, rock, classic

[every0ne]

good

:whistling

[AWESOMENess]

I let iTunes organize it for me :P

[Wearwolf]

Music Folder\Artist-Album

That's it. :)

Me too. I have different folder for every album on my PC. :cool:

[benficao]

tag & rename

[zetah]

They are all in one folder but the music player organises them according to album included them .

[Apsoled]

Music Folder\Artist-Album

[Swift]

by genre

[WannaB]

main folder: all tunes
subfolders: band/artist
subfolders: album

[KultNavn]

Nowadays it's mostly all about spotify for me. I'm addicted!

[pakhe]

by genre....

[Dolphin]

F:\Music. In my Music folder i have organized everything in genre. And too make it clear i only have Lossless formats (FLAC) in my collection because nothing else is worth saving.

[The_Martinator]

In different folders (since recently), where every album is a diff folder.
Before I just had all of it in one folder and just organized the tags. so now I have a few folders and a shitload of mess. Maybe, someday I'll organize it.

[iNaru]

not that ORGANIZED , all to F:\ directly

[Eros]

each album is in its own folder inside that artists folder

[pffm]

c:\Music\Artist - Album name (year)

[Andrew26]

apart winchester if it will full i will write out my albums

[Minute]

I have everything in 1 folder

[t3h_n3wbie]

My Music Folder > Artist > Album