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How do you organize your music folders?
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Baron Doggystyle von Woof
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I have it like this:
Macho Madness
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Yuck, folder management. I thought that died with the nineties. I just let iTunes do the work.
PhoncipleBone
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Once I moved over to OSX, I just sat at iTunes one afternoon and fixed the tags on my years worth of unorganized shit. Once you tag everything correctly, iTunes is a godsend. The only time I go to folders now is if I just want to burn a disc with the data itself along with a few other things to give to someone.
polyh3dron
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if you are even looking at those folders, you are using iTunes wrong.RoadHazard said:
polyh3dron
Banned
I used to use WinAmp, I am no noob.Fixed1979 said:
Loonz
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PhoncipleBone said:
That's easy to say. Sometimes you think you have everything fine and dandy and then iTunes manages itself to fuck things up. If you have mp3 files dating from the late 90s (my case) you have to understand that proper tagging wasn't one of the main priorities back then. And even if you have tagged everything you can discover years later that what you did wasn't complete or "proper" from iTunes or whatever program point of view.
I understand what some of you are saying. Let the program do its thing. In fact I let iTunes do its thing for years because fixing everything (from tags to folders) seemed like a pain in the ass (and indeed it was). And it works if you use hardware from Apple like an iPod. But if you not, well, then is when the shit hits the fan
.That's one reason to finally take the plunge and fix your music folders. The other one, at least in my case, it's that I'm control whore. I don't like the idea of not being me who controls my data. This is why the vision of the folder disaster that was my music collection was like a splinter in my mind.
So now I have everything straighten up and iTunes works like a charm. My Apple devices can use playlists created by iTunes and other mp3 devices can use folder structure with the same effectiveness. With little maintenance from now on. For me it was worth the pain.
PhoncipleBone
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I had gigs of stuff from the late 90s, and it took a bit of time to properly tag in iTunes. I just sat there for a day or two listening to samples of everything and fixing the tags within iTunes.
And if on OSX and it puts all your music into one folder with sub folders for each artist, there is no need to dive back into the folders unless you specifically want to burn a certain folder to disc.
And if on OSX and it puts all your music into one folder with sub folders for each artist, there is no need to dive back into the folders unless you specifically want to burn a certain folder to disc.
iTunes sucks for albums with various artists, SUCKS.
I still remember my frustration taking an album, manuall typing the same album artist, the same name of album, everything exactly the same and however iTunes still kept splitting the album up in several ones with the same damn name, it looked the same in my iPod, it was annoying as hell.
It did the same sometimes with albums with one artist, I never figure how to fix it on itunes, now I'm with winamp and never going back.
I still remember my frustration taking an album, manuall typing the same album artist, the same name of album, everything exactly the same and however iTunes still kept splitting the album up in several ones with the same damn name, it looked the same in my iPod, it was annoying as hell.
It did the same sometimes with albums with one artist, I never figure how to fix it on itunes, now I'm with winamp and never going back.
lunarworks
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That was the hardest part. When I dumped my huge MP3 collection into iTunes years ago, I had to spend many hours tagging everything properly. But once it was done, it was totally worth it. Now it's nice and organized.polyh3dron said:
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
mantidor said:
Album Artist: Various Artists
Part of a Compilation: Yes
should solve problem.
Marty Chinn
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If you have a networked home, keeping things well organized in folders is much easier to maintain and makes for better compatibility across devices. Between browsing on other computers, various Squeezeboxes, XBMC, 360, and the PS3, folders is by far superior compared to just letting iTunes do it.
blindrocket
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Me too.Fixed1979 said:
wayward archer
Member
x:\music\Artist\Album\Track number - song title.ext
so for instance:
x:\music\Radiohead\Kid A\01 - Everything in Its Right Place.mp3
so for instance:
x:\music\Radiohead\Kid A\01 - Everything in Its Right Place.mp3
ChubbyHuggs
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Music > Artist > Albums > Song
Works fine.
If I have OST or Compilations, I put them in my Various Artist Folders, then I edit their properties to match.
Works fine.
If I have OST or Compilations, I put them in my Various Artist Folders, then I edit their properties to match.
out0v0rder
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i dont organize anything, if i need to hear a specific song, i just type whatever i want to hear into the windows start bar and press enter. all of my music is in one folder titled "muzix"
mantidor said:
Nah, you aren't doing it right then. You may also have to go to the "view options" and indicate that you want Compilations to be displayed together. If you did the artists and even leave the album artist blank (or use the DJ and I sometimes will for mixes) everything should work properly.
biggyfries
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I pretty much use the "record shop" solution.
External drive: mp3: folders a-z: artist: album: song,
With the a-z folders, I also have Compilations (which is slowly taking the place of Various Artists), OST, Video Games, and Various, which is a shitload of singles that haven't been cataloged yet.
External drive: mp3: folders a-z: artist: album: song,
With the a-z folders, I also have Compilations (which is slowly taking the place of Various Artists), OST, Video Games, and Various, which is a shitload of singles that haven't been cataloged yet.
Buckethead
Banned
iTunes
But I wish that iTunes would simply allow you to click on whatever album cover you wanted to set it as album artwork.
Stuff like:
Pulse (Live)
Spirited Away - Official Soundtrack of the Motion Picture
Really pisses me off.
But I wish that iTunes would simply allow you to click on whatever album cover you wanted to set it as album artwork.
Stuff like:
Pulse (Live)
Spirited Away - Official Soundtrack of the Motion Picture
Really pisses me off.
OmegaDragon
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music/ artist - year - album title/ mp3
So everything is directly accessible in one folder
That must cause a lot of headaches. Groups that do not use their native languages or use multiple languages, artist spanning multiple genres
So everything is directly accessible in one folder
Zapages said:
That must cause a lot of headaches. Groups that do not use their native languages or use multiple languages, artist spanning multiple genres
Henchmen21
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I mostly have soundtracks on my comp. So on my desktop I have on folder named "Soundtracks". Inside that folder I have sub folders of each individual soundtrack filed by year released, then the name. So for example, [1986] Aliens, is how I have that soundtrack named. For movie/tv series that have more than one in them (i.e. Batman or Star Trek), I have folders labeled the name of the movie/tv series with sub folders inside them ordered by year. I also have a "Various" folder in there where I keep all my regular songs by artists organized alphabetically by band name.
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