Question: how do you organize your MP3s?

[Al'Kimiya]

[artist]\[year], [album] ([medium], [label])\[tracknr] - [artist] - [title].mp3

each directory also has an empty file showing the encoder, bitrate and stereo mode

example:
"lame 3.93 180-188kbps joint stereo vbr"

[monolith94]

My itunes is organized by album, alphabetically. So Byrne's "Rei Momo " immediately follows Bowie's "Reality".

[The diplomat]

Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
itunes

Yeah, that's what I use too. It sorts everything automatically. I have everything sorted alphabetically by artist.

But I've also created specific playlists based on mood. So I have playlists named "fun", "sad", "optimistic",
"cool", "romantic" and "worship". That way I can listen to certain music depending on what mood I am in.

[Starchild]

Currently an absolute horrific mishmash of my method of:

General Music Folder/Artist/Album/Song

And my friend's (who I just got a lot of music off of) system of:

General Music Folder/Alphabetical Letter/Album/Song

It's taking me ages to bring order to his chaos.

[Last Conformist]

I sort them by \artist\album.

[Adagio]

I just sort them by artist. One folder for each artist

[Q Classic]

\letter\Artist\Title.

as in:

\H\Hay, Colin\Overkill
\H\Haddaway\What Is Love
\Cl-D\Clannad\Trathnona Beng Areir

[Immortal Wombat]

Album directory within artist directory within general muics folder. I don't assign an artist directory until I have about 10 songs by them.

[Dis]

alphabetically of courese

[optimus2861]

I've just been using artist names as subfolders for now, though when I find dupes between CDs (i.e. with live/best-of CDs) I add the CD names as well. I've almost got every CD I own ripped now, putting me up to almost 1200 tunes.

And for the Linux users out there, I highly recommend madman. Not only do you get a database view of things (artist - album - track, the usual filters), you get to rate all of your songs from 0-5 stars and have those ratings taken into account in its Auto-DJ feature that will generate random playlists for you.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Asher
Voila.

how do you get winamp to do that?

I have winamp, but it just seperates them by artist, it doesn't seem to take into account the album. Pluse it seems so small.

I usually use musicmatch. But I'd like to use winamp, because I think it's less resource intensive (for when I play games with it on the background). I'm not sure about that though.

I used musicmatch to edit all of my tags. Because downloaded songs usually have all the wrong information in the tags. But I haven't edited the actual file names, that would be far too tedious.

[Andemagne]

I have my 'files in one huge windows folder. they are there in alphabetical order. easy and simple, and quick too. I use winamp to play them.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Andemagne
I have my 'files in one huge windows folder. they are there in alphabetical order. easy and simple, and quick too. I use winamp to play them.

all of mine are in one folder as well.

You guys don't actually open up the folder to play tunes do you?

I open up the player first, and then find what I want to listen to. So how my folders are set up is not an issue.

[Agathon]

But I've also created specific playlists based on mood. So I have playlists named "fun", "sad", "optimistic",
"cool", "romantic" and "worship".

Wot, no "rage"; "bitterness"; "homicidal mania"?

You just aren't normal.

[Agathon]

I don't bother organizing mine, they're all in one big folder. iTunes does the rest.