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Ok, I have a question for everyone here: How do you organize your music?
Do you use Itunes(or w/e) and have all your music files in one large folder?
Do you organize your files into folders by artist, by album, or by type(mp3/wav/wma/flac/ogg)?
Also, what do you do about artwork - Windows XP folders can take a custom image, and MP3 files *can* have artwork embedded in them.
What do you do about music tracks gotten from different sources, and differences in tagging(for example, an album off Jamendo is not going to be tagged the same as one off Itunes)?

Also, if you buy a physical CD, and rip it to some file format, do you put those files with ones you don't have a physical copy of, or do you use a separate system for them?

What about multiple file formats - Say you keep files as OGG, but your MP3 player can only handle MP3/WMA - How do you handle the multiple sets? Also, what if, to save space, you encoded your MP3 player music as a lower bitrate?

Filenames - how do you organize them? track # - Title? Do you always use two-digit numbering (i.e. 02 12 15 03)? Also, what about title-capitalization - do you use all lowercase, all uppercase, first-letter capitalized, first letter of each word capitalized... what?

Also, what about MIDIs, project files(like if you made/edited the track yourself), and album data(lyrics, information, booklet-scans)?



I need to figure out a really good way to store all my music, and so I am asking these questions to get some ideas.

-RobbieThe1st

i store mine in Itunes, all in one folder, ones that I have a physical copy of or not, all in MP3 format

Big huge directory with very little differentiation, though I've thought about changing that. My main player (when I'm actually listening to my collection and not Pandora) is WinAmp, so it tackles the Ogg files in there just fine. I tend to rip to 192kbps MP3, though, because I don't happen to have a portable player that can take Ogg. As soon as I get one, that'll change. When I rip (or use WinAmp auto correct to fix ID3 tags) the data's all pulled off the cddb. Barring that, I'll put the data in directly off the CD or what I know.

I personally stick with mainly just MP3 if they are OGG or WMA files I move them to a seperate folder where I would format them to MP3. Then what I do is normally is if I have more than 5 songs for an artist I put it into its own folder under music. And if its less than 5 songs or if I want it for easy access Ill leave it in the main folder. I dont seperate by bitrate although if anyone could tell me I have a couple of songs that I used to rip from a really old audiograbber from 2000 or 2001 I think and the songs unfortunately were ripped at 56Kpbs and now with the more updated audiograbber I have it songs that come out to 128Kpbs. I was wondering if its already in MP3 format is there a way to up the bitrate or no? Because the CD's I had then are long gone now. Just curious. But getting back on track I tend to also go to the properties of all the songs I have and make sure I got the correct info of Album, Track, Title, and Artist tagged to the file.

I have my songs organized by artist, and then by album. iTunes is about as complex as I go. Still, it makes for some good playlists.

my music is not organized in any fashion. There are random places in my computer with music folders w/ 1 song in it :/ But its a family comp so :roll:


but once I get my own computer, all music will go into one massive folder, just so I know where it all is.