Question: how do you organize your MP3s?

[MORON]

After years of slow downloading, my MP3 count have finally exceed 2000. So I need some better way of organizing MP3s that can encode more information than a bloody file tree. I guess could just change the file names and ID3 tag and use search functions in more modern media players but I really don't want to change anything about my files.

So, how do you organize your mp3s?

*or should I leave everything to entropy*

[reds4ever]

I put them all in my 'Shared' folder and then View/sort by/name.

Quick 'n' simple

[Asher]

Whole albums are sorted by directories: \Artists\Album\

I browse them in the Media Library in Winamp, or my Nomad.

[Asher]

Voila.

[Bosh]

Each band gets its own directory, pretty straight forward especially since I don't like most bands enough to keep entire albums.

[MRT144]

genre/artist/album

[Lawrence of Arabia]

itunes

[ixnay]

Haha, Asher is using the same Winamp skin as me. Good taste

Anyways, since I only get full albums on my comp nowadays, they're organized like so:

Artist/
---Year - Album/
------Artist - ## - Title.mp3

The album cover resides in the album's folder and is named folder.jpg

I accomplish all of this with Tag&Rename, which lets me look up the album info on Amazon and then rename the files and folder properly with 2 button clicks.

I also use Guidua to generate pretty lists of all my music that looks like so:

    BT                                                       |       |        |        |      |        
        1996 - Ima                                           |       |        |        |      |        
            Disc 1                                           |     9 |  101Mb |  67:00 |  MP3 | -aps   
            Disc 2                                           |     4 |  108Mb |  71:40 |  MP3 | -aps   
        1999 - Movement in Still Life [UK Limited]           |       |        |        |      |        
            Disc 1                                           |    11 |  111Mb |  73:57 |  MP3 | -aps   
            Disc 2                                           |     7 | 83.7Mb |  58:03 |  MP3 | -aps   
        2000 - Movement in Still Life                        |    11 | 84.7Mb |  56:38 |  MP3 | -aps   
        2000 - Never Gonna Come Back Down                    |     5 | 60.1Mb |  39:51 |  MP3 | -aps   
        2001 - R&R                                           |       |        |        |      |        
            Disc 1                                           |    11 |  124Mb |  73:56 |  MP3 | -aps   
            Disc 2                                           |    11 |  113Mb |  70:07 |  MP3 | -aps   
        2003 - Emotional Technology                          |    13 |  120Mb |  78:21 |  MP3 | -aps   
        2004 - The Technology EP                             |     6 | 69.0Mb |  42:53 |  MP3 | -aps   
    Five Iron Frenzy                                         |       |        |        |      |        
        1996 - Upbeats & Beatdowns                           |    15 | 68.8Mb |  47:27 |  MP3 | -aps   
        1997 - Our Newest Album Ever!                        |    13 | 69.2Mb |  50:57 |  MP3 | -aps   
        1998 - Quantity Is Job 1 [EP]                        |    17 | 55.8Mb |  40:41 |  MP3 | -aps   
        1999 - Proof That the Youth Are Revolting            |    18 |  100Mb |  71:49 |  MP3 | -aps   
        2000 - All the Hype That Money Can Buy               |    15 | 69.7Mb |  45:17 |  MP3 | -aps   
        2001 - Five Iron Frenzy 2 - Electric Boogaloo        |    12 | 59.8Mb |  39:28 |  MP3 | -aps   
        2003 - Cheeses                                       |    34 | 77.3Mb |  56:16 |  MP3 | 192 C  
        2003 - The End is Near                               |    14 |  117Mb |  79:21 |  MP3 | -aps   
        2004 - The End is Here                               |    19 |  118Mb |  78:51 |  MP3 | -aps

Hooray for being obsessive about mp3 organization

[Solomwi]

I do the each artist/band gets a directory thing.

Somewhat OT, but somewhat related... is there any way to make Winamp play in surround? I play a particular file in WMP and get it through all 6 speakers, but play the same file in Winamp and only get it through the sub and two front speakers. Aside from thaqt, I like everything about Winamp much better than any other player I've tried, so any help would be much appreciated.

[Ramo]

Directories for each artist, and file names are the song title. I don't bother with album structure, and let Winamp take care of that.

[Zopperoni]

[Genre] \ [DVD it is backed up on] \ [Last Name, First Name - Year of Release - Album Title] \ [Song]

E.g. Jazz \ DVD A \ Griffin, Johnny - 1959 - The Little Giant \ Johnny Griffin - The Little Giant - 01 - Olive Refractions

[Buck Birdseed]

[Continent] \ [Genre] \ [Song] generally. If it's albums they go in separate directories as well.

E.g. North America\Freestyle\Shannon - Let the Music Play.mp3

[Dinner]

Originally posted by MRT144
genre/artist/album

[MORON]

oooh thats some groovy skin that asher has....*wonders whats its name*

hmmm, one of the problems I have is that I have alot of anime songs that I'd like to sort by artist as well as by what series it is. (since I tend to remember songs by relation to anime as opposed to its actual name)

Currently my organization is /genre/artist or /genre/anime series/

[MarkG]

currently it's

[artist] / [album]

but it will soon be

[dvdbackup id] / [artist] / [album]