how i’m “using” audio greatly effects the way i organize my music, and with me liking so many different genres, my library can get messy once in a while.
so now to keep it clean i start with year, then month, and then genre, because of the massive amount of music i get monthly. before i got to this point it was something like (genre, sub-genre, and then year) which was horrible!
so i was wondering if anyone has any good organizing tips that have stuck with them over the years, without having to revamp your organizing habbits?
dont mean to sound rude, but this question pops up a bit… have a look here for some more tips and to see what people have to say before the mods jump in and lock/merge this thread.
because of my huge collection - over 190.000 titles - i’ve choosen a standard organization waht means //[version].
that’s to hold the operating system fast. the more files in a folder (windows) the slower the search.
i manage my collection with “mp3tag”, but only have .wma (looseless).
i tag my songs in a special way. i use the “album-interpret” to manage the file-system.
that means, that the normal “interpret” tag holds for example “Michael Jackson” than the “album-interpret” ist filled up with “Jackson, Michael”
if it is a “soundtrack” from a movie, the album-interpret tag holds “soundtrack\movie” for creating the file structure.
i allso wrote me a programm, that holds my file structure clean and moves files automatically on the tag basis. as a benefit, these programm allso sorts the .mxm files to the same location als the .wma
for having access to the different genres, i tagged my files with multible entrys in the gene tag field, separated by “;” so i can access all cobinations by a search or create playlists on that basic.
i tested around a long time, what’s the best - and for a huge collection - for me thats the best way.
To the OP, Josh’s Google search above gives you a whole bunch of answers to your question. If you have more questions please ask in one of those threads.